The surging growth in global population, climate change, widespread mismanagement and increasing demand for energy have tightened the grip on the world’s evaporating water supplies, warned a new United Nations (UN) report released ahead of the World Water Forum.
Water in a changing world, which was compiled by 24 UN agencies, warns that as the world’s population has swollen to well over six billion people, some countries have already reached the limits of their water resources.
The triennial assessment says that due to climate change almost half the world’s population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030, including between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa. In addition, water scarcity in some arid and semi-arid places will displace between 24 million and 700 million people.
See the World Water Assessment Programme
And UN-Water
