Water scarcity could affect three billion more people than previously expected by mid-century, with increased pollution rendering river sources "unsafe" for humans and wildlife, researchers warned ...

Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic change, disproportionately impacting populations located in the Global South. Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic ...

There are many implications for a warming climate, melting icebergs, increasing temperatures, coral bleaching, and water scarcity. Each of these impacts is devastating in their own right, and while ...

Nitrogen pollution could intensify global water scarcity threefold by 2050, scientists warn in a recently published paper. In addition, “newly emerging pollutants,” such as microplastics, heavy metals ...

So wrote Coleridge, in his epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and while most of us probably won’t get trapped in the doldrums on the equator, we probably should give more thought to water. To ...

Water scarcity is one of the most pressing development challenges of our time. Today, 2.4 billion people live in water-stressed countries. Many are smallholder farmers who already struggle to meet ...

Phoenix and Tucson area utility Global Water Resources has seen its shares fall in 2023. Arizona faces the possibility of water shortages and regulators are seeking to slow the pace of development in ...

Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic change, disproportionately impacting populations located in the Global South. So concludes a new Utrecht University article published in ...

A woman carries water on her head from a swamp, with much of the area having no access to clean drinking water due to years of unprecedented flooding, in Canal-Pigi County, South Sudan Thursday, May 4 ...