While North Texas is suffering from the most critical drought imaginable (called “exceptional” on the scale of droughts, although I can not fathom what’s exceptional about it), the problem is not just localized to America.

One-third of the world’s population is short of water – a situation we were not predicted to arrive at until 2025 – according to a disturbing new report on the state of the world’s water supplies.

Squeezing more out of every raindrop that falls on poverty-stricken regions of Africa and Asia is key to the survival of the world’s poorest and most malnourished people, researchers say.

“Business as usual is not an option,” says David Molden of the institute, and coordinator of the report, called Insights from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture.

It concludes that one-third of the world’s population now suffers water scarcity, a situation that has materialised 20 years sooner than predicted by an assessment five years ago.

Anyone else want to say something stupid like environmentalists can move to another country if they don’t like our science-be-damned approach to consuming natural resources and burning fossil fuels?

Just askin’.