13 March 2025 - – The air was charged with a sense of purpose at UN ... drinking water. 3.5 billion people still lack safe sanitation. And 4 billion people experience severe water scarcity ...

Glaciers are melting faster than ever. As the planet gets hotter, our frozen world is shrinking, making the water cycle more unpredictable. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing ...

The threat of scarcity is a growing one, exacerbated by an expanding population and developing countries forming consumption habits in line with those the western world has set. The UN’s 2017 World ...

These regions are shown by the boxes and numbers. Map by Carbon Brief, based on Hugonnet et al (2021), which was reproduced in the UN water development report (2025). The report says that “all ...

When changing climatic conditions, increasing heat waves and other extreme weather events have challenged the availability of fresh water, experts advocate going beyond the conventional for futuristic ...

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The first International Soil and Water Forum opened this week in Bangkok to map out concrete measures to boost global efforts in managing water scarcity ... the UN Secretary-General's Special ...