Water
Cape Town’s announcement in 2018 that it was 3 months away from Day Zero – the day when the city’s taps would run dry – shocked the world. Drastic measures were taken, citizen behaviour changed and the crisis was averted, for now. But according to the WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, 17 countries risk facing similar Day Zero scenarios. 12 of these are in the MENA region, where climate-related water scarcity could cost 6-14% of GDP by 2050. India and Pakistan are also at risk, where reliance on large-scale mining of non-renewable ground water for 1.5 billion people is not sustainable.
— Wayne Visser
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