water crisis
Severe shortage situation
A water crisis is a situation where demand for freshwater exceeds available supply, or where water quality has deteriorated beyond safe use.
The term covers drought, contamination, infrastructure failure, and mismanagement: The Flint water crisis exposed lead-poisoned pipes.
Water crises may be local emergencies or regional catastrophes affecting millions.
- governmentsRuling political authorities
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- desalinationExtracting salt from seawater
- food insecurityUncertain access to adequate meals
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
rainwater harvesting · agricultural runoff · migration · climate refugees · desertification · deforestation · overpopulation · wastewater treatment · contamination · industrial pollution · groundwater depletion · dry wells · farmers · sustainable agriculture · economic instability · sanitation · NGOs · social conflict
- crisesemergency, disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- drynessarid, aridity, dry, dehydrated, bone dry
- global issuesclimate change, inequality, pandemics, poverty, refugees
- global crisespandemic, economic collapse, financial collapse, climate change, food insecurity
- Global Povertymalnutrition, starvation, food security, poor sanitation, child mortality
- global threatsterrorism, nuclear war, cyberattacks, pandemic, nuclear weapons
water crisiswater sustainability
Maintaining adequate freshwater supplies indefinitely
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