A modern early warning satellite system reveals countries where shrinking reservoirs could lead to the taps completely drying up Shrinking reservoirs in Morocco,India, Iraq and Spain could spark the next “day zero” water crisis, or according to the developers of a satellite early warning system for the worlds 500000 dams.
Cape Town recently grabbed global headlines by launching a countdown to the day when taps would be cut off to millions of residents as a result of a three-year drought. Drastic conservation measures maintain forestalled that moment in South Africa,but dozens of other countries face similar risks from rising demand, mismanagement and climate change, and say the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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Source: guardian.co.uk