africa/global: 'Water resources are on the brink of exhaustion'

“The taps are dry, only my eyes run,” said a school-boy from Nairobi, a water-starved country. The deadly dip in water resources - on an average 4 out of 10 people in the world live in water-starved areas - has become a grave concern. It is predicted that by 2025, 5.5 billion of the world population will be pushed to the severely water-starved areas.