Access to safe, clean water is a basic human right. But water scarcity or barriers to access can cause conflict within and between countries. Earth Sciences Jul 3, 2023 0 37 ...

Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Researchers are now presenting an alternative method for quantifying the global risk of water scarcity ...

The impact of water scarcity is not confined to a local or regional scale. It is a global crisis with far-reaching consequences, from economic disruptions to geopolitical tensions and mass migrations.

In a paper published in Nature Water, researchers from the University of Delaware, Sustainable Waters — a global organization focused on water scarcity challenges — and Virginia Tech looked at six ...

One of the issues is water scarcity, and one of the strategies the IPCC recommends to address it is desalination — turning salty ocean water into something drinkable.

Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the ...

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 600-page report, the most comprehensive assessment of the planet's most essential natural resource, predicts that as many as 7 billion people in 60 countries could face water scarcity by 2050 ...