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There are four different causes of water scarcity: a dry climate, drought (a period in which rainfall is much lower and evaporation is higher than normal), drying of the soil due to activities such as deforestation and overgrazing by livestock and water stress due to increasing numbers of people that rely on limited levels of run-off.
