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Credit: Roberto Marsanasco
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Featured Blog Post: The World's Water Challenges (2017)
By Research Associate Cora Kammeyer
"Today 1.7 billion people live in river basins where water demand outstrips supply," writes Research Associate Cora Kammeyer. "By 2050, this is expected to jump to 2.3 billion." Yet there are no silver bullet solutions. "The nature and degree of water stress depends on myriad basin-scale factors such as hydrologic conditions, precipitation, infrastructure, and number and type of water users in a given space and time," writes Kammeyer. "Effective progress will require careful consideration of the watershed context and collective action among water users in a basin."
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