Peak water Disappearing rivers Vanishing lakes Groundwater mining Shrinking glaciers Current estimates indicate we will not have enough water to feed ourselves in 25 years time... – Colin Chartres, IWMI
{"Image DocumentName": "Peak water Groundwater mining Disappearing rivers Vanishing lakes", "Image ImageDescription": "Current estimates indicate we will not have enough water to feed ourselves in 25 years time... \u2013 Colin Chartres, IWMI. Groundwater mining. Disappearing rivers. Vanishing lakes. For example, by 2050, 7-8 billion people will inhabit the world\u2019s cities. They will use about 2800 cubic kilometres of fresh water a year \u2013 more than the whole of irrigation farming uses today. At the same time the global resources and energy sector will devour twice its present share of the world\u2019s fresh water. Cities and energy corporations are already meeting their needs by taking the farmer\u2019s water, with little thought for how this will affect future food production. Then there is the slice of farm water that climate change is stealing: rainfall over in the world\u2019s great grainbowls, evaporation from soil and dams, dwindling lakes, shrinking aquifers or the loss of icepack from mountain regions. By billion people will live in conditions of moderate to acute water scarcity. IWMI director general Colin Chartres says Current estimates indicate that we will not have enough water to feed ourselves in 25 years time. Worldwide, groundwater levels, lakes and rivers are dropping as they are pumped dry. Immense waterbodies like Lake Chad are simply vanishing. Large rivers no longer reach the sea. The Himalayan glaciers are indeed disappearing. On the North China Plain, the north Indian plain and in midwestern America, groundwater is being mined at such a rate that it will largely be gone in years. These regions feed 2 billion people now - and must support 4 billion in future. Shrinking glaciers.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}