Dramatic report on world water resources, four billion people affected

Monday, August 21st 2023 - 11:01 UTC

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One-fourth of the planet’s population in 25 countries experiences extremely high water stress annually, using nearly all of their available water supply on a regular basis, according to new data from the World Resources Institute (WRI)’s Aqueduct Water Risk. Read full article

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Don Alberto
Of course water demand worldwide is more than twice what it was in 1960, because the 1960 world population was 3,019,233,000 while the 2023.07 world population is 8,045,311,000 [1] 2.6 times the 1960 number.

The photo at the top of the article shows what the real problem is: An insane waste of water used for irrigation.

Unless every farmer worldwide learn to use the best possible watering methods, like drip irrigation and soaker hoses, surface irrigation , and small sprinklers close together (high initial costs), and sprinkler watering only between sunset and sunrise, billions are going to die.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/
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