SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – By 2050 more than fifty percent of the world’s population will live in water-scarce regions with almost sixty percent of freshwater flows coming from transboundary rivers, according to a report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on Thursday, August 22nd.
The report, dubbed the Blue Peace Index, examines the extent to which countries and basins are managing their shared water resources in a sustainable, equitable and collaborative manner and the dangerous threats to the world’s freshwater supplies as a result of weak or problematic global transboundary cooperation.
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