Part Three / How it Affects Us

3.18 Water Shortages

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  1. a review on global hydrological cycles Oki, T., and Kanae, S., ‘Global hydrological cycles and world water resources’, Science, 313 (5790), 2006: 1068–72, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1128845.

  2. a report compiled by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, ‘The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000–2019)’, 12 October 2020, https://reliefweb.int/report/world/human-cost-disasters-overview-last-20-years-2000-2019.

    According to the Ecological Threat Register Institute for Economics and Peace, Ecological Threat Register 2020: Understanding Ecological Threats, Resilience and Peace, September 2020), https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ETR_2020_web-1.pdf

    1.2 billion people could be forced to migrate https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ETR_2020_web-1.pdf

    216 million could be internally displaced Clement, V., et al., Groundswell Part 2: Acting on Internal Climate Migration, World Bank working paper, 13 September 2021, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36248.

    approximately 733 million people … are especially at risk United Nations Water, Summary Progress Update 2021: SDG 6 – Water and Sanitation for All, July 2021, https://www.unwater.org/app/uploads/2021/07/SDG-6-Summary-Progress-Update-2021_Version-July-2021.pdf.