Climate change threatens fresh water supplies

According to a UN report, in 2023, rivers around the world will have less water than they have in at least 30 years. This is how far the data taken into account by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) goes. In each of the past five years, water levels have been significantly below the long-term average, the WMO reported in Geneva.

The cause is climate change, which is exacerbated by the El Niño weather phenomenon, which occurs naturally every few years and affects rainfall worldwide. 2023 was also the hottest year since industrialization began, and glaciers lost more ice than at any time in at least 50 years. (More on zdf.de)