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The World's Continents Are Drying Out, with Rivers Below Normal Across 36% of Basins
The World Meteorological Organization said the decline reflects a decade-long drop in freshwater reserves as glacier loss and erratic rainfall strain supplies.
The water stored on the world's land is steadily draining away, and 2025 was one of the driest years for the world's rivers in three and a half decades.
EFE.- The global storage of terrestrial water in rivers, lakes, glaciers, underground wells and other sources has been declining for a decade and the planet "is spending its reserves", warns the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in a new report confirming that 2025 was one of the driest exercises of the last 35 years. [...] The entry Global Alarm: The planet exhausts its freshwater reserves and enters a crisis without return was first publ…