As World Water Week draws to a close, water and climate expert Jens Berggren explains why climate change is already affecting our precious H2O.
DW: Can you explain the correlation between climate change and water?
Jens Berggren: That is actually a really big question, and it’s hard to answer, because it’s more a case of what is not the correlation. The teeth of climate change, how it will be experienced by people and plants and animals on our planet, that is to a very large extent, through water.
It’s changing the way water moves on our planet and how it behaves. Already today, some 90 percent of all natural disasters are water related; between 1992 and 2012, water related disasters affected 4.2 billion people. And the predictions for the future are that these extreme weather events will increase in both frequency and intensity. Read more
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