A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises [nytimes.com]
By Somini Sengupta and Weiyi Cai, The New York Times, August 6, 2019 BANGALORE, India — Countries that are home to one-fourth of Earth’s population face an increasingly urgent risk: The prospect of running out of water. From India to Iran to Botswana, 17 countries around the world are currently under extremely high water stress, meaning they are using almost all the water they have, according to new World Resources Institute data published Tuesday. Many are arid countries to begin with; some...