Nature Maps Water Risks
Finding: “nearly 80% of the world’s population is exposed to high levels of threat to water security.”
A series of maps published in the journal Nature, details threats to human water security and freshwater biodiversity and reveal that large areas of world’s are at risk of water shortages that could impact plant, animal and human water security. The areas of intensive agriculture and human settlement, uncluding the US and Europe, are facing particularly acute water supply risks.
- Nature News (review of scientific journal article)
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by Adena Schutzberg on 09/30 at 08:20 AM |
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