Translations:Information Booklet/120/en
About 80 percent of the world’s population already suffers from serious threats to water security[1]. It’s clear that climate change can affect the availability of water and threaten water security due to changes in rain patterns. In general, rain is increasing in tropical and high-altitude regions, and decreasing in the sub-tropics due to climate change[2]. In 2017, around 2.2 billion people did not have access to safely managed drinking water. More than 2 billion people globally live in river basins suffering water stress, where the need for freshwater exceeds 40 percent of what is available. In some countries in Africa and Asia, needs exceed 70 percent of the freshwater available[3].
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs named:16 - ↑ IPCC 2014 WG II SPM A1, and Assessment Box SPM2 Table 1
- ↑ UNEP 2021, Making Peace with Nature, SPM Section 4.2