Study warns of alarming decline in freshwater reserves

The planet has endured massive freshwater losses over the past two decades due to the combined effects of climate change, overconsumption and drought, a new study has found...

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5423766-freshwater-drought-earth-climate-change-study/ 

 

Climate crisis is suffocating the world’s lakes, study finds

…"This study proves that the problem is even more severe in fresh waters [than in oceans], threatening our drinking water supplies and the delicate balance that enables complex freshwater ecosystems to thrive," said Curt Breneman, RPI's dean of science...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/02/climate-crisis-is-suffocating-the-worlds-lakes-study-finds

The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles

Creek beds are bone dry and once-gushing springs are reduced to trickles as fights play out around the nation over control of nation’s freshwater supply ....https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles

Giant river animals on verge of extinction, report warns

Populations of great freshwater species, from catfish to stingrays, have plunged by 97% since 1970 ...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/10/giant-river-animals-on-verge-of-extinction-report-warns

U.S. faces fresh water shortages due to climate change, research says | Reuters

The pressures of climate change and population growth could cause water shortages in most of the United States, preliminary government-backed research said on Thursday. As many as 96 water basins out of the 204 supplying most of the country with freshwater could fail to meet monthly demand starting in 2071, a team of scientists said in the journal Earth’s Future. ....
https://it.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1QI36L