The doom and gloom predictions of increasing battles around the world over water are a myth, with only a handful of disagreements over shared waters leading to armed conflict, an expert said.

Tofu and salad to save us from extinction, anyone? They may be the only hope for continuing life on the planet, according to the world’s leading experts on water.

Anyone who has even casually studied how our Great Famine needlessly became the devastating catastrophe in our history cannot but be appalled at how British civil servants and politicians used starvation and the denial of food aid — life — to try to advance inhuman political and social philosophies.

The world’s top farm producers in the G20 countries must agree coordinated action to ease worries about food prices, the head of the UN’s food agency said yesterday, as he and other experts bemoaned a huge global waste of food and water.

WORLD water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say.