People collecting water from the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday. – EPA pic, August 6, 2019.
NEARLY a quarter of the world’s population lives in 17 countries facing extremely high water stress, close to “day zero” conditions when the taps run dry, according to a report released today. The World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas ranked water stress, drought risk and riverine flood risk using a peer-reviewed methodology.
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