Sentence examples for absolute water scarcity from inspiring English sources
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations is predicting that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity.
Still, by 2025, 1.8 billion of the word's inhabitants will live in regions with absolute water scarcity, according to UN-Water.
Expect a sudden awareness of the water shortage now that Beijing has dropped below the United Nations "absolute water scarcity threshold" and is facing a "more severe water scarcity than some countries in the arid Middle East".
According to the UN, by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under water stress.
According to the United Nations 1.8 billion people will be living in regions with absolute water scarcity by 2025 – access to clean drinking water is and, seemingly will be, crucial.
With respect to IRWR, most countries within the region have lower than the cutoff point of 500 m3/inhabitant per year considered to be the threshold for absolute water scarcity.
In Congressional testimony given in March, Paige Alexander, USAID's Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for the Middle East, said that if the region continues on its current trajectory, it "will likely face 'absolute' water scarcity by 2030".
They are bumping up against water scarcity.
Water scarcity is not our only challenge.
Suddenly, threats of water scarcity become relevant.
