Lake Yliki in Boeotia, central Greece, with low water levels on July 11, 2024. Aris Oikonomou/AFP/Getty Images
Laura Paddison, CNN – 16 October 2024
Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according to a landmark new report.
Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have collided with the human-caused climate crisis to put “unprecedented stress” on the global water cycle, said the report published Wednesday by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a group of international leaders and experts…