“Imminent” risk of a global water crisis

UN calls for cooperation in the face of the “imminent risk of a global water crisis”

Around the world, 2 billion people lack drinking water and 3.6 billion do not have access to safely managed sanitation, says UN report

“Imminent” risk of a global water crisis

Water shortages, lack of drinking water, multiplication of droughts and floods...

The UN warns of imminent risk of a water crisis

The organization's secretary general regretted that “the lifeblood of humanity is being drained” and remarked that only agriculture “absorbs 72 percent of the water.” They plan changes to reverse the situation by 2030. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, yesterday denounced that the world population has “broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and polluted groundwater” at the opening of the United Nations conference on water in Ne…