Chart of the Month - Aggregate gap between water supply and demand by 2030

This month’s chart comes from the IFC/ McKinsey report, Charting Our Water Future.

It illustrates how demand for water withdrawals from nature is expected to grow between 2009 and 2030, and where the required water might be expected to come from. The problem is that many water basins are already in deficit, i.e. more water is withdrawn than is annually recharged. By 2030, the deficit will have grown to 2,700km3/year ...

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