The only countries that could conceivably experience water shortages are land locked countries?

Even there dehumidifiers might harvest water directly from the atmosphere, and as much as 4000 litres a day by wind power alone?Enough to water many under glass labour intensive agriculture endeavours, which allow Co2 purging to be implemented for maximised pest free harvests!

Aloe Vera grows in semi arid conditions and produces a nice soft clothing grade fibre when beaten and soaked? It also produces a fluid that is a useful moisturizer that can act as a flexible sanitary sealant or second skin in burns and what have you?

The Dutch have invented a vastly less costly form of desalination, which turns as much of the water into potable supplies and at around quarter of the current cost of common desalination.

In fact this water is already proven cheap enough in Texas practise to serve viable irrigation?

My view is that it'd be underground applications only and supported by plastic film laid out mechanically with the seed sowing that then utilises and returns pristine evaporate. Even as it warms the ground enough to allow planting and subsequent harvesting around a month early; to maximise the possible returns and indeed reduce the pest predation, which usually needs many fields to transit and contaminate via universally sown common crops?

And eminently suitable for dryland cotton, which will take care of many of Valerie's concerns and indeed those of my many female rallies!
Alan B.

Geneticly Modified women...now there is food for thought. The perfect woman for a busy man, is possible yet!
Samantha from Bewitched, played by Elizabeth Montgommery, would by my ideal of the perfect woman. A woman with a very flexible nose, and with the ability to cast spells.
No need then, for a man to work at all