Rapid urbanization increasing pressure on rural water supplies globally
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 10:10
in Earth & Climate
An international team of researchers has carried out the first systematic global review of water reallocation from rural to urban regions -- the practice of transferring water from rural areas to cities to meet demand from growing urban populations. They found that 69 cities with a population of 383 million people receive approximately 16 billion cubic meters of reallocated water per year -- almost the annual flow of the Colorado River.