Global population hit by extreme drought set to double
Available freshwater is on track to decline sharply across two-thirds of Earth’s land surface toward the end of the century mostly due to climate change, with the number of people exposed to extreme drought doubling, researchers have reported. Even under a scenario of moderate decline in greenhouse gas emissions, land area scorched by extreme to exceptional drought conditions increases from three to seven percent … Mexico City is currently facing a water crisis, and California has been coping with a lack of rain for most of the last decade.