Tag: freshwater

Rapid glacier melt threatens global water security, agriculture, and climate stability, putting billions at risk, warns the United Nations.

“The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis. We are misusing water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological cycle, through what we are doing to the climate. It’s a triple crisis.”

The challenge from here on is to avoid water wars while preemptively, cooperatively and aggressively addressing a growing global population’s water security. It can be done, but we must do it now.

Blue states can take the lead on protecting water where it counts most: at the source. They can articulate an urgently needed national water vision.