By 2050, the number of people in cities facing water scarcity is projected to nearly double from 930 million people in 2016 to up to 2.4 billion, the report found. Urban water demand is expected ...

PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) - Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by ...

Water scarcity already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching ...

The alarming extent of water scarcity across the world is detailed in a map compiled by a leading environmental think tank. It shows two key types of scarcity; water is said to be either physically ...

What energy was to the 20th century — a pricy commodity, prime geopolitical factor and public preoccupation — water may well become for the 21st. If you take a look at the interactive map of global ...

Water may be a building block of life, but people’s failure to recognise its true worth risks condemning billions to a life without proper access to this vital resource, the United Nations has ...

March 22, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The UN's health body says that almost one-third of the world's population will not have access to enough safe water by 2025.

About 26% of the global population does not have access to safe drinking water and about 46% of people lack access to safely managed sanitation services, according to a new report released late on ...

NEW DELHI - More children in South Asia are struggling due to . severe water scarcity made worse by the impacts of climate change. than anywhere else worldwide, the United Nations said on Monday ...

The world is facing a looming global water crisis that threatens to "spiral out of control" as increased demand for water and the intensifying impacts of the climate crisis put huge pressure on ...

The world is facing a looming global water crisis that threatens to “spiral out of control” as increased demand for water and the intensifying impacts of the climate crisis put huge pressure ...