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Chasm in a sentence6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, 80% of farmland has been affected by soil degradation due to climate-related droughts. One of the main causes of climate change, deforestation, leads to “heat islands” that impact the surrounding land. As the climate crisis continues to deepen, those resources become all the more scarce. The areas most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as Somalia’s decade-plus of drought or increasingly severe monsoons in Bangladesh, are often water-stressed to begin with. Unsurprisingly, climate change is one of the main reasons behind the global water crisis. By addressing these causes, we can do better with the 1% we have. There are a number of root causes for our current water crisis, which in turn affect everything from harvests to public health. Learn more about Concern's response to the global water crisis. Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day-more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined-and can be caused by lack of access to clean water and sanitation services.The global water crisis is a women’s issue: In what UNICEF calls “a colossal waste of time,” women and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours hauling water every day.Approximately 73% of people affected by water shortages live in Asia.3.2 billion people live in agricultural areas with high water shortages or scarcity.The Global Water Institute estimates that 700 million people could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030.Two-thirds of the world’s population experience severe water scarcity during at least one month of the year.The WHO reports that 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water.785 million people lack access to basic water services.According to UNICEF, 1.42 billion people – including 450 million children – live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability.According to UN-Water 2.3 billion people live in water-stressed countries.The global water crisis is proof that we’ve come up dry: The latest reports from the WHO and UNICEF show that over hundreds of millions of people are caught in a cycle of thirst - one that feeds into the cycle of poverty. And we have to make that <1% last for 7.9 billion people. ![]() The rest is saltwater, ice, or underground. ![]() We use it to eat, to fuel our businesses, to keep our homes (and hands) clean… But less than 1% of the world’s water supply is usable to us. Water affects our lives in countless ways. ![]()
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