Interesting articles

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This one's on population growth in Australia, etc.
http://beforeitsnews.com/immigration/2011/06/australian-immigration-unsustainable-on-a-desert-continent-740504.html

And this one is about water issues in the American Southwest:
http://jeffberndt.hubpages.com/hub/The-Coming-Water-Crisis-in-America