2023年10月12日 · Meeting the global financing needs for water is a particularly big challenge. Water infrastructure is estimated to require a staggering $6.7 trillion by 2030 — and $22.6 trillion by 2050. Yet the global water sector currently attracts less than 2% of public spending, with a similar level of private investment in low- and middle-income countries.

2024年11月19日 · A global water crisis caused by land use changes and climate change is affecting economies, societies and the planet. A recent report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water outlines how this endangers the world’s freshwater supply and how to build water resilience.

2024年10月23日 · Alongside, the water crisis could also hit global gross domestic product (GDP), with an average 8% drop for high-income nations by 2050 and as much as 15% for lower-income countries. The crisis will affect the most vulnerable “first and hardest”, the commission reports, with densely populated areas, including northwestern India ...

2024年12月16日 · Already, 50% of global drinking water resources are significantly degraded from climate change, population growth, poor planning, land use and more. Two-thirds of the global population are anticipated to be water-stressed by 2025, with 1.8 billion people facing absolute water scarcity.

2022年9月27日 · All our current arrangements rest on the assumption, now invalidated, that the water supply is relatively stable (within the bounds of natural variability), predictable, and manageable in localized ways. But the water crisis is global, and it can be solved only with transformational thinking and new governance.

2023年3月28日 · UN warns of looming global water crisis The United Nations used its first conference on water security in almost half a century to push governments to better manage the world's water . "We are draining humanity's lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use, and evaporating it through global heating," said UN Secretary ...

2023年3月22日 · It’s a triple crisis,” Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Johan Rockstrom, who is co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW), told The Guardian. A Water Action Agenda — voluntary pledges by countries and stakeholders to achieve sustainable development goals — is expected to be adopted ...

2015年1月16日 · Water connects, it doesn’t separate – what manifests itself as a regional or local crisis quickly becomes a global problem. Water crises affect economies of all sizes. Roughly one-third of the world’s population now lives in water-stressed areas, and nearly a billion people still live without access to safe drinking water.

2024年4月15日 · A natural resources crisis like water scarcity is listed in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024, as one of the top 10 threats facing the world in the next decade. Currently, desalination plants are used in regions like the Middle East, which has a hot climate alongside a buoyant and technologically able economy.

2024年10月3日 · The two impact each other in a feedback loop, with global water-cycle shifts and human water use amplifying the impacts of climate change, causing extreme weather events like drought and flooding, and exacerbating water scarcity. Equally, given how carbon-intensive the water industry is, wasting water is also wasting carbon.