Water: Water Shortage is Biggest Global Threat

Jan 16, 2015 | Rick Pendrous, Food Manufacture
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More than two-thirds of people on the planet – between 4-5bn – could be living in parts of the world affected by water stress by 2024. That was the warning issued by Axe; Lehmann, chief risk officer for Zurich Insurance Group, which is backer of the WEF report published yesterday (January 15).

Today around 10% of the world’s population struggles to get access to clean water, he added.

Tensions between water-stressed regions of the world and those with reserves could potentially leader to “water wars”, claimed John Drzik, president of global risk at Marsh & McLellan, which also supports the WEF report.