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Mars is particularly water-poor when looking to rapidly increase population by colonisation.
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While green lawns in a water-poor area serves no purpose.
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Even in the water-solidarity world, the water-poor populations would, over the long term, be limited by the availability of virtual water (i.e., food).
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Now water-rich regions can produce an excess of food and export it to a water-poor region, effectively (some might say artificially) enhancing the water-poor region's apparent carrying capacity.
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If it could be maintained, it might still lead to massive immigration from water-poor to water-rich regions, creating similar strains on resources.
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Because populations in water-poor regions grow with more virtual water transfer, they become vulnerable to -- and so more people die from -- drought.
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As expected, they find that as the amount of transfer of virtual water increases, the population of water-poor regions increases while the population of the water-rich regions remains the same.
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Their study used a simple model to simulate the effect of the export/import of virtual water on both water-rich and water-poor populations.
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Isn't it possible that many in water-poor regions of the developing world would view this issue differently than we?
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The upshot is that the transfer of virtual water allows the populations of water-poor regions to grow well beyond their indigenous carrying capacities.
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