第4段落
e@More frequently water is being likened to another resource that
quickened global tensions When itS supplies were threatened. @A
story in The Financial Times of London began: “Water, ike energy 反
the late 1970s、will probably become the most critical natural
てresource iSsue facing most parts of the world by the start of the 21st
century”@Water w峰 likely replace oil as a future CauSe of war
between natiOnS.
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@ 受身の進行形 be動詞+ being + DD.
[(今まさに) こされている」 強調の働き
中この文では, More frequently とともに文意を強調している。
・⑯ 名詞+現在分詞 [ごしている名詞]
the most critical natural eSOUTCe issue (facing )
[が直面している, 最も 重大な天然資源の問題]