報告同時表明，控制人口增長是長遠解決水缺乏問題不可缺少的措施之一。它說除非各國能通過限制生育來降低人口的增長，否則它們不可能提供乾淨的水。
Global warming a bigger threat to poor全球變暖加劇貧窮 氣候變化急待控制
Global warming, modelled on computer here, kills more people than terrorism
Global warming threatens to reverse human progress, and make unachievable all UN targets to reduce poverty(聯合國所有減少貧窮的目標), according to some of the world's leading international and development groups.
In a report published today, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, WWF(英國牛津救濟委員會、“綠色和平”組織、基督徒互援會、“地球之友”組織、世界野生動物基金組織) and 15 other groups say rich governments must immediately address(致力於) climate change to avoid even "obscene levels(無法忍受的程度)" of worldwide poverty.
"Food production, water supplies, public health and people's livelihoods are already being damaged and undermined," the report says. "There is no either/or approach possible(想找一個‘非此即彼'的辦法是不可能的). The world must meet its commitments to achieve poverty reduction and also tackle climate change. The two are inextricably linked(二者的聯繫是難解難分的)."
The report, which draws on UN predictions of the effects of climate change in poor countries over the next 50 years, says poor countries will experience more flooding, declining food production, more disease and the deterioration or extinction of entire ecosystems(整個生態系統的退化甚至消失) on which many of the world's poorest people depend.
"Climate change needs to be addressed now. The poor will bear the brunt of the impacts. The frontline experience of many of us working in international development indicates that communities are having to combat more extreme weather conditions."
Climate change will play havoc（大範圍的破壞；浩劫） with agriculture and water supplies and will increase diseases. "By 2025 the proportion of the world's population living in countries of significant water stress will almost double, to 6 billion people. Tropical and sub-tropical areas will be hardest hit - those countries already suffering from food insecurity(食品短缺)".
Poor communities mostly do not need hi-tech solutions, but would most benefit from education, research and being shown how to farm better. The report says unchecked global warming(尚未得到抑制的全球變暖), more than wars or political upheaval(政變), will displace millions of people and destabilise many countries.