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Water Resources for Global Peace and Development (Website in Chinese)
Source:Economic Daily | Author:HuaShan | Published time: 2022-07-21 | 1609 Views | 🔊 Click to read aloud ❚❚ ▶ | Share:

Last March the United Nations released the World Water Development Report, which concluded that a lack of awareness of the "value of water" is a major cause of its waste and misuse. When water is scarce, societies face multiple challenges that can turn into a global crisis. According to the report, two-fifths of the world's population live without water, nearly 4 billion people face severe water shortages for at least one month of the year, 2.1 billion people are forced to drink polluted water, 80 percent of sewage is discharged directly without treatment, and 90 percent of the world's 1,000 most devastating natural disasters since 1990 are water-related.