The world would have run out of freshwater 15 years ago if everyone ate like Americans

According to a WikiLeaks document from 2009, Nestle told U.S. officials that global water shortages are on the horizon as countries around the world adopt a Western-style, meat-centric diet. The world’s largest food company predicts that one-third of the human population will experience freshwater scarcity by 2025, and shortages could become catastrophic by 2050. Center for Investigative Reporting