Nestlé Chairman calls on European policymakers

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The chairman says that the biofuel madness is contributing to water shortages that arealready endemic. Stretches of the Rio Grande, which partlyseparates the U.S. from Mexico, have dried up in regular intervalssince 2001. China's Yellow River ran dry in 1972, in 1996 and in1997. Worse yet, we are overusing ground water in large parts ofthe world. Water levels are sinking rapidly both in China as wellas in India's Punjab state. Great aquifers, whether in the Saharaor in the southwestern U.S., are being depleted rapidly. This iswater that dates from thousands of years ago. Like oil, once gone,it is lost forever. "Then there will be nothing left to eat"
This is an English translation of an interview with PeterBrabeck-Letmathe in the leading Swiss newspaper, NZZ am Sonntag.Interview by Charlotte Jacquemart, Daniel Hug.
Nestlé chief Peter Brabeck warns against meeting the rising demandfor fuel with bioethanol. The prices of agricultural commoditiesare climbing anyway.