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The Water Crisis


Clean energy can help to ease the water crisis – Analysis - IEA

This commentary explores how an acceleration in clean energy development can help ease the world's water crisis.

Why is America running out of water? - National Geographic

Regardless, desalination plants are springing up across the US in response to a looming water crisis. Photograph by ShutterStock. Perhaps the ...

Finding the Balance: Population and Water Scarcity in the Middle ...

Focus Areas ... The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)* is the most water-scarce region of the world. Home to 6.3 percent of the world's population, the region ...

Water crises threaten world peace (report) - UNESCO

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water, highlights that tensions over water are exacerbating ...

Water Issues in China | FSI - SPICE - Stanford

... water, people all over the country are suffering from China's water pollution crisis. The central government has begun to fight the pollution problem by ...

What can industry do to address the water crisis? | Saint-Gobain

The health and food crisis caused by water scarcity, which is a direct consequence of climate change, could well become an industrial crisis in ...

The water crisis is worsening. Researchers must tackle it together

It's unacceptable that millions living in poverty still lack access to safe water and basic sanitation. Nature Water will help researchers ...

America's water crisis | The Guardian

25 February 2021. Water trickles from a fire hydrant while workers repair a broken water main in Austin, ...

"Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much: The Global Water Crisis and Human ...

A thematic report focusing on human rights and associated obligations related to water pollution, water scarcity and floods.

Water Shortage: Causes and Effects | Earth.Org

Contaminated and unsafe water is another contributing factor of water shortages. Water pollution already kills more people each year than war and all other ...

Wake up to the looming water crisis, report warns

Wake up to the looming water crisis, report warns ... Water-related hazards like floods and droughts are increasing because of climate change. The ...

Water Scarcity and Pollution | Ceres: Sustainability is the bottom line

Valuing Water Finance Initiative. Through the Ceres Valuing Water Finance Initiative, investors are making the business case for action to take on water risk so ...

Global Causes of Local Water Scarcity - World Resources Institute

The causes of water insecurity in the Tana watershed are complex, driven in part by local conditions like a growing population, an expanding economy, ...

Water Shortages - Southern Nevada Water Authority

A Tier 2 shortage declaration for 2023 operations further reduced the amount of water available to Nevada and Arizona. However, an exceptionally wet winter ...

The What, Why and How of the World Water Crisis

It is an ecohydrological crisis because direct human-driven actions, separate to climate change, are responsible for the projected increased water scarcity by ...

Story: Flint Water Crisis | CASPER - CDC

On April 25, 2014, the City of Flint, Michigan changed their municipal water supply source from the Detroit-supplied Lake Huron water to the ...

Why water security is our most urgent challenge today

Water is at the centre of this crisis: nine out of 10 climate events are water related. Droughts and floods continue to grow in intensity, ...

Inside Syria's water crisis: A cholera outbreak in the making

In Syria, water scarcity is driven by multiple and complex factors that have for years left millions of Syrians relying on unsafe water sources.

Drought - California Department of Water Resources

Dry conditions in the area of Lake Mendocino in Mendocino County. DWR/2021. Visit drought.ca.gov for water shortage assistance and information on drought- ...

Kenya's Water Crisis: Our Mission - Water.org

Kenya's water and sanitation crisis. With a population of 54 million, 15 million Kenyans lack access to safe water and 37 million lack access to a safe toilet.