AlertNet: We can think creatively about water management, but unknown large global threats could cause a fundamental reorganisation of life on Earth, according to a water expert with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). "A doomsday scenario would be that if the Greenland ice sheet melts, and then there's six metres of sea-level rise -- all bets are off,' said David Purkey, a senior scientist who heads SEI's Northern California office. "I think we've got bigger problems than water scarcity at that...
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