Drinking water around the world.
It’s scarce, unevenly distributed and causes mass migration – here are some facts about our drinking water.
The vast majority of that, about 97 percent, is sea water.
Between 1.7 and two of the remaining three percent is permanently trapped in glaciers, ice and snow.
Most of the little that remains is ground water or soil moist.
While that covers the needs in places like Germany, Sweden, Argentina or Canada, the Global Water Institute estimates that 700 million people in 43 countries currently suffer from water scarcity.
And conditions are set to get worse.
The UNCCD meanwhile predicts that by 2030, as many as 700 million people will be forced to leave their homes due to water shortages, aggravated by climate change.
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