For decades, the world has been warned of a looming water crisis. A landmark report released today at the United Nations Headquarters argues that the time for “crisis management” has passed. The report, Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, is the outcome of an investigation led by Kaveh Madani, the renowned environmental scientist and Research Professor at The City College of New York’s CUNY CREST Institute.
The study concludes that humanity has entered a state of “Global Water Bankruptcy”—a permanent, systemic failure where the natural capital needed for recovery has been liquidated.
The investigation reveals that nearly three-quarters of the world’s population lives in…