Water scarce resource
Current state:
- 40% of the world population live in water scarce areas and approximately 25% of worlds GDP is exposed to this challenge
- The roughly 1 billion people living in monsoonal basins and the 500 million people living in deltas are especially vulnerable
- There are 276 transboundary basins, shared by 148 countries, which account for 60% of the global freshwater flow
- 2 billion people are dependent on groundwater
- 2 billion people in more than 40 countries are affected by water shortage
- Freshwater ecosystems are the most threatned
- 40% of agriculture production depends on irrigation
- 166 000 deaths due to floods and droughts in last 20 years