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Multiple Ways of Assessing Threats to Water: Supply-Side and Demand-Side Problems There are both supply-side threats and demand-side threats to water necessary to meet human needs; as T. Boone Pickens has been quoted as saying, "Water is the new oil" One supply-side threat arises from instances in which we are withdrawing freshwater from surface water sources and groundwater aquifers at rates faster than replenishment or recharge Another supply-side problem is that even if there is enough water, it is not water that is good enough to meet human needs; much of the world's fresh water is being degraded Still another supply-side problem is the fact that distinct from physical water scarcity, there is economic scarcity for the global poor  One demand-side concern arises from the fact of an increasing number of people on the planet Another demand-side problem is that high-demand users sometimes are geographically concentrated in regions that cannot sustain demand ...