Around 2.2 billion people worldwide do not have regular access to safe drinking water. New technologies can help alleviate the problem.
(Photo: Klawe Rzeczy)
Dusseldorf When scientists talk about the summer of 2022, terms such as water shortage, heat records and millennium drought are used. The experts refer to crop failures, water rationing or “Lake Mead”, once the largest artificial water reservoir in the USA, which is now a desert landscape. Or to forest fires in southern Europe and to dead fish in the Elbe, which nature conservation organizations say lacked oxygen in the water.
Seldom before have people around the world felt climate change as badly as this summer. Water is scarcer than ever.
According to the UNESCO World Water Report 2022, around 2.2 billion people do not have regular access to safe drinking water. About four billion people live in regions that suffer from water scarcity for at least one month of the year.
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