“For the first time in human history, we are pushing the global water cycle out of balance,” said Johan Rockström, co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water and a report author.

Rain accumulation and runoff is part of a larger process on earth, known as the water cycle. The four core parts of the water cycle include evaporation, condensation precipitation, and accumulation.

The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble. Climate change has disrupted that cycle’s delicate balance, upsetting how water ...

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