According to new research from the World Resource Institute, half the world’s population, or about four billion people, suffer from water stress driven by climate change. “We are living in a water crisis.”
The latest Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas report finds that 25 countries, home to a quarter of the world’s population, experience extremely high water stress yearly. Extreme stress is defined as a country using at least 80% of its available water supply.
“People like to talk about climate change as the biggest existential threat to humanity, but water stress is climate change’s deadliest and most used weapon,” said the global director of WRI’s Food, Land, and Water program, during a press briefing before the new data were released.
The update to the Aqueduct Atlas included a list of the 25 countries most affected by water stress. Many of those are in the Middle East and North Africa, where 83% of the population is currently exposed to extreme water stress.
In the US, WRI found that 14 states meet the criteria for high water stress, with at least 40% of the supply used each year. Six of those states meet the 80 percent criteria for extreme stress.
Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado are the three most water-stressed states and all seven of the states that rely on the Colorado River for water face high or extremely high water stress.
“Water is how climate change most directly impacts people throughout the world, from floods and droughts to sea level rise,” said the director of WRI’s Freshwater Initiatives.
“If climate change was a shark, then water is its teeth.”
2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send diseases among my people;
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and diseases; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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