It could not have come at a better (or worse) time. With the water scarcity looming large as ambient temperatures soar in most of the densely populated south, a recent report warns that if water productivity is not enhanced, the poor of the world will suffer the most. Aptly titled Water: More Nutrition Per Drop, the report presented at the meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in New York warned that if present food production trends continue, the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of undernourished people by year 2015 will remain a dream. Expectedly, the report highlights statistics and data to present a gloomy scenario. Not without reason, as 840 million people across the world are currently undernourished and some 2 billion will join them in the next two decades.