The article discusses the importance of improving access to clean water and ensuring adequate sanitation in countries through the United Nations (UN). According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean water, and more than 5 million people die every year...
The issue of water pricing will also exacerbate the North/South divide. There is a sub-text to much of the hand-wringing over the world’s water shortage. Almost every article on the subject starts with the reminder of the population explosion and where is it occurring. The sub-text is t...
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The severity of the water crisis has prompted the United Nations (UNDP, 2007) in concluding that it is water scarcity, not a lack of arable land, that will be the major constraint to increased food production over the next few decades. For instance, Australia is one of the major food pro...
For the first time in human history, human use and pollution of freshwater have reached a level where water scarcity will potentially limit food production, ecosystem function, and urban supply in the decades to come. The primary reason for this shortage is population growth, which has increased...
This article has been updatedAbstract Protecting the world’s freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, from global to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly consider human and biodiversity perspectives on water security using a spatial ...
Water and Sanitation. Although 95% of water-scarce cities can address the water crisis via improvement of water-use efficiency, seawater desalination, groundwater exploitation, reservoir construction, interbasin water transfer, or virtual water trade (Supplementary Table5), these measures will not only...
responsibility to address global environmental problems. The growing global crisis in waterresources provides an important illustration of the influence of upstream pollution prevention. For thepast decade, scientists have sought to raise an alarm concerning the unsustainable use of the planet’swater reso...
Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that ...
A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India Article21 April 2022 Main Globally, groundwater is critical for meeting human and ecosystem water needs, especially in drylands, which comprise roughly 40% of global land area and support more than two billion people. Serving...