A Looming Crisis: 66% of Global Population To Experience Water Scarcity by 2100 scitechdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scitechdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Water that falls on a forest canopy during rainfall events reaches the ground at focused locations called “pour points”. This insight has a major impact on how we view hydrologic processes on the ground.
Global Droughts, Heatwaves Threaten Water Security miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
<p>Increased demand for water due to global population growth, coupled with the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, endangers our water security. Nonetheless, little is known about the relationship of water use by sectors and the occurrence of drought-heatwave events, particularly at the large scale. To unveil this issue, a group of researchers from the Department of Physical Geography from Utrecht University evaluated the responses of sectoral water use during droughts, heatwaves and compound (combined) events at a global scale. The study published in <em>Environmental Research Letters</em> shows that stronger sectoral water use responses are found for heatwaves compared to impacts during droughts.</p>
NOAA projects the rising sea levels will persist and by 2100, experts posit that septic waste will be seeping into coastal homes, contaminating drinking water.