The water crisis is the lack of access to safe water and sanitation affecting the lives of millions of people. Only about 3% of earth’s water is fresh, and less than half of that is currently available for use. As the population grows, thedemandfor water is expected to increase 20%–...
from both human and biodiversity perspectives. A subsequent analysis of investments in water resources offers insights into the sources of global disparities in human water security that separate rich from poor. The authors conclude that rivers are in a state of crisis, and that nearly 80% of hum...
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...
“I’ve always wanted Tea Drops to provide a larger vehicle to aid in social efforts,” shares Tea Drops founder Sashee Chandran (she/her). “Our decision to address the global water crisis felt natural, as water is not only critical for sanitation and education ...
The World Economic Forum 2020 has ranked the water crisis as the paramount social risk of this decade1. Managing water resources is the core pillar for addressing the most urgent challenges2and achieving sustainable development3in the Anthropocene. Due to intensifying climate change and regional popul...
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...
Circle of Blue conducts research and generates reports and articles in every area that influences or is influenced by the water crisis, such as health, education, agriculture, climate, pollution and more. Its scope is global and no fact or finding is too small to consider when the group’s ...
nature nature communications articles article Article Open access Published: 08 August 2024 Assessing global drinking water potential from electricity-free solar water evaporation device Wei Zhang, Yongzhe Chen, Qinghua Ji, Yuying Fan, Gong Zhang, Xi Lu, Chengzhi Hu, Huijuan Liu & Jiu...
How to avert a global water crisis[EB/OL]. [2012-01-30]http://www. nature, eom/news/2010/ 101004/ull/news. 2010. 490. html.Gilbert, N (2010) How to avert a global water crisis?. Nature.Gilbert N 2010 . How to avert a global water crisis . In Nature News. Published online 4...
nature scientific reports articles article Article Open access Published: 06 December 2022 Increasing freshwater supply to sustainably address global water security at scaleAfeefa Rahman, Praveen Kumar & Francina Dominguez Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 20262 (2022) Cite this article ...