With a steadily increasing demand, freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a threat to sustainable development of human society. Nowadays, around four billion people, i.e., two-thirds of the global population, live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least 1 month of each year; nearly half of those people live in India and China, a research team from the … [Read more...] about Two-Thirds of the World Population Facing Severe Water Scarcity
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Global Surface Water Increased but Water Quality Remains a Concern
According to a recent study published in Nature, almost 90,000 km2 of surface water, roughly equivalent to that of Lake Superior, have disappeared altogether and an additional total of 72,000 km2 have transitioned from a permanent state to a seasonal state over the past three decades. During the same period, a cumulative area of 184,000 km2 of permanent water … [Read more...] about Global Surface Water Increased but Water Quality Remains a Concern