"New York, 13 August— If current patterns of development continue, nearly half of the world's people will suffer from water shortages within the next 25 years, the use of fossil fuels, along with greenhouse gas emissions, will grow, and the world's forests will continue to disappear, according to a new United Nations report issued today by the Secretariat for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development."

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