Is the world running out of freshwater?
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As the climate crisis intensifies, it shrinks and contaminates the water we rely on. We need to act now to reduce the existing and emerging threat that this poses to our health.
By Simge Eva Dogan
How climate change drives Earth’s freshwater decline and threatens health
- With 2°C warming, up to three billion people are projected to experience chronic water scarcity.
- Water scarcity impacts health in many ways, including human displacement, poverty, disease and food insecurity.
- We need immense political action, greater financial investment and a whole-of-society approach to fight climate change, and protect Earth’s freshwater and people’s health.
More than half of the world’s population faces water scarcity for at least one month a year.
Safe water is a basic human right and essential for our health, whether we use it for drinking, food production or hygiene. But it’s also a finite resource.
Only around 3% of Earth’s water is freshwater, most of which is in frozen glaciers, ice caps...
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