Two-thirds of Earth's land is on pace to lose water as the climate warms – that's a problem for people, crops and forests
- Written by Yadu Pokhrel, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University
Cape Town residents queued up for water as the taps nearly ran dry in 2018.Morgana Wingard/Getty ImagesThe world watched with a sense of dread in 2018 as Cape Town, South Africa, counted down the days until the city would run out of water. The region’s surface reservoirs were going dry amid its worst drought on record, and the public...
