In Asia it accounts for 86% of total annual water withdrawal, compared with 49% in North and Central America and 38% in Europe.

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It has only to look across the water to Europe to see how failure to manage the withdrawal of stimulus in an orderly manner can push economies back into recession, making it that much harder to tackle the ultimate goal of lowering government debt.

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