Direction: Choose the sentence that most logically completes the paragraph.
_______________________. Conflicts are now brewing over rivers and river basins shared by many countries. This is not unexpected, given that more than two hundred water bodies are shared by two or more countries. Strife over water, for example, is erupting throughout the Middle East.
- AWith water becoming increasingly scarce and development of new sources of water extremely costly, international water tensions are expected to rise
- BIt might be a cliche, but given how scarce it is, water is the new oil of the 21st century
- CFresh water is increasingly in short supply, with nearly two-thirds of the global population living in water-stressed conditions
- DThe world does not consider water to be the scarce resource it is