Water scarcity might seem like a distant problem in a world where three-quarters of the planet's surface is water. Yet this precious resource increasingly finds itself at the center of humanity's most ...

SciTechDaily has shared a report that a new study indicates up to 66% of people worldwide may not have access to enough clean water by 2100. The majority of people affected will live in the Global ...

There are many implications for a warming climate, melting icebergs, increasing temperatures, coral bleaching, and water scarcity. Each of these impacts is devastating in their own right, and while ...

Climate change has many signals—rising sea levels, melting glaciers, stronger storms—but the first and most immediate sign for most people on the planet is water. Not too much of it. Not too little.

Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine ...

The world’s three most populous countries include China, India and the United States and these nations alone account for 41 percent of the global population, 49 percent of blue water demand—defined as ...

Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from rese ...

Journalists reporting on water scarcity often confront the same four barriers: lack of transparency, limited access to sites ...

AMMAN — The Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA), in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), ...

First Trust Water ETF offers exposure to companies addressing global water scarcity. Click here to read why FIW is rated a ...

Researchers in Australia developed a polymer that cools buildings and harvests water from the atmosphere. With little more ...

Water scarcity already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching ...