Demand for water has never been as greater, due to population growth and mobility, rising living standards, changes in food consumption, and increased energy production, especially biofuels.

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It is doubtless that we are experiencing a dilution of microdialects and accents, however this merely reflects the greater physical and social mobility of the population at large.

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But the Liberal Democrats said the report highlighted falling social mobility and that a quarter of the population are being left behind.

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The most recent analysis of this data, by Stephen Jenkins of Essex University, shows evidence of considerable income mobility: only 7% of the population remain in the bottom 20% of incomes for four consecutive years.

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An aging population with serious purchasing power and a hunger to retain their mobility as they get older will likely be the reason why driverless, or less-driven cars are adopted into the mainstream according to Ghosn.

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High taxes, strangling regulations, protectionism, the lack of rule of law, currency debasement and social caste systems that severely hinder mobility are the causes of famines and economic catastrophes, not a growing population.

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One third of England's undergraduate population studies part-time, and the importance of part-time study for the economy and social mobility is widely recognised.

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