Global water resources are under growing pressure from an increasingly “erratic” hydrological cycle, the UN meteorological agency has said, with two-thirds of all river basins suffering from abnormal conditions last year.
It was the sixth consecutive year of clear imbalance, the World Meteorological Organisation said in its latest report, as the majority of rivers either ran dryer or wetter than usual, compared with the 1991-2020 average.
“The water cycle at a global scale is moving faster,” said Stefan Uhlenbrook, director of hydrology, water and cryosphere at the WMO.
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