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Activities of rich countries and their companies are affecting the world's water supplies, often to the detriment of local people.

• Shoppers in the UK pay low prices for vegetables and salads that use up 300 litres of water in Kenya causing Naivasha Lake to dry out and die.
• Tomato growing in Spain is causing high salt levels along the coast.
• In Egypt, the export of vegetables is so important that the country has threatened military action against any country that dams any river entering the country.
• A Coca Cola plant in the state of Rajasthan in India is lowering the water table.
• In Ecuador, growers of roses for Europe are polluting the water systems by their use of pesticides.
• Agricultural products exported to Europe are lowering the water table in Tanzania rendering wells unusable.
• Coffee growing in Vietnam is poisoning the water supplies because of the over-use of chemicals.

One thousand million people in the world have no access to clean and safe water. Each day, 4,000 children die from preventable water-bourne diseases.