Green Party spokeswoman Jenny Jones urged the government to be more courageous in moving Britain from a "fossil fuel culture" to sustainable energy sources like wind, solar and water.

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The US will probably need to explore novel sources of fresh water in the near future, with rivers in the southwest extracted beyond sustainable limits and with climate change threatening to push them further into the red.

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