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Providing more and diverse water storage infrastructure is crucial to securing reliable water supplies in the face of climate change.

Growing biofuels requires careful consideration, particularly with regards to food security and livelihoods.

Growing dryland populations are depleting their natural resources, while increasingly-settled agriculture ignores the traditional knowledge needed to tackle future uncertainties, says David Thomas.

With water scarcity already affecting over a billion people, dryland populations should combine traditional and modern knowledge to manage water access sustainably, says Theib Oweis.