Global Water Cycle Out of Balance for First Time in Human History, Report Says
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Decades of mismanagement of water resources, deforestation, and the fossil fuel-driven crisis of global warming have put “unprecedented stress” on the Earth’s water systems, according to a new report, and have thrown the world’s hydrological cycle out of balance “for the first time in human history.” The Global Commission on the Economics of Water, affiliated with the Dutch government and…