The 692 square kilometer island of Bahrain already has problems with groundwater sources, and the destroying of the farmland belt is not helping the matter. The population of 1,234,596 is still growing and is in need of more residential space so the remaining farmland is being destroyed to make houdsing developments. Only 30 percent of farmland remains in the rapidly growing small country. Water per capita is 154 cubic meters due to the increase in population and soon will be much less than that. Bahrain is in a crisis and with the limited resources the country has there is nothing that the country can do to quench the thirst of its citizens.
www.globalissues.org/news/2011/01/06/8102
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