Our world is entering an ‘era of global water bankruptcy’, UN scientists declare
A UN-backed report says humanity has crossed into global water bankruptcy, where water use exceeds nature’s ability to recover.
By Rebecca Shavit, The Brighter Side News
For decades, we have heard many warnings about a global water crisis. However, a new UN-supported report states that these previous warnings do not capture the extent of the problem. Instead, the authors of this report state that the world has now moved from the crisis phase to a more severe phase called global water bankruptcy.
Kaveh Madani is the lead author of the report entitled Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, which was produced by The City College of New York and the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health, which is often referred to as the UN’s “think tank” for water issues. This report drew its conclusions from peer-reviewed literature in the journal Water Resources Management, as well as from an extensive worldwide dataset.
Research findings are available online at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.
