German researchers have calculated how climate change affects water resources worldwide. Challenges for agriculture and a rethink of how the world eats likely lie ahead.
As the growing world population’s consumption of water increases, fresh water resources are also becoming scarcer due to climate change. Water sources are melting and drying out. Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have calculated how much of the essential resource the world risks losing to the effects of climate change.
To get a clearer picture of such effects, the researchers collected data from five global climate models and 11 global hydrologic models. Their study aims at finding new ways to counter looming water scarcity. Read more
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