ABSTRACT
Demographers and non-demographic analysts of population-environment interrelations have been remarkably inattentive to the likelihood that freshwater need-supply imbalances are not far from reaching crisis proportions, not only among regional groupings but also globally. Although the alarming welfare and development implications at stake are widely recognized in qualitative or individual area terms [1–10], the likely wide-ranging imbalances in sight continue to receive little or no focused quantitative consideration.
