Dry Rivers and Shrinking Glaciers Deepen Global Freshwater Decline
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Dry rivers and shrinking glaciers deepen global freshwater decline
Rivers around the world are running unusually dry as freshwater reserves continue to decline, leaving less water stored away to help countries through drought, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned. Glaciers and groundwater are also shrinking, while in Switzerland the retreat of Alpine ice is already forcing changes to infrastructure that supplies hydroelectric power.
In 2025, the world's rivers experienced one of the driest years in more than three decades, according to data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The total volume of fresh water on the surface and underground was 42% below normal. Only about a third of the world's rivers had normal runoff. Number of rivers with normal runoff levels in recent [...] The post In 2025, the world's rivers experienced one of the driest periods in more th…
Climate change is contributing to an increasingly volatile and unpredictable water cycle, with more frequent extreme droughts and floods.
WMO warns of less water in rivers, lakes and glaciers in 2025, in a year marked by low flows and widespread loss of ice. WMO Report contents reveal less water in rivers, lakes and glaciers in 2025 appears first in Barlavento.
Rivers had in 2025 one of the driest years of the last 35. Report points to less groundwater and ice loss for the fourth consecutive year.
UN report shows that 36% of the hydrographic basins analyzed had a flow below normal in 2025; for the fourth consecutive year, all the main glacial regions of the Earth lost ice mass; document quotes reduction of groundwater reserves in northeastern and midwestern Brazil. Source of original article: United Nations / United Nations [...]
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