Groundwater pollution is an increasing problem
The rate of groundwater pollution doubled between 1960 and 2000 reaching over 280 square kilometers per year. That’s 280 billion tons a year or 9000 tons every second.
Groundwater pollution is an increasing problem
We are polluting our largest source of freshwater
90 percent of the world’s freshwater is groundwater. One estimate puts total resources at 10.5 million km3. However, the number is constantly going down. While the amount of polluted groundwater goes up...
Large areas are losing their groundwater
The rate of groundwater exploitation is unsustainable in a number of regions across the world. By 2050, 4 billion people will live in areas suffering from severe water stress.
A deadly combination
The consumer society runs on water. It is needed to manufacture the products we use and the food we eat. So the combination of overexploitation of the world’s water resources and pollution of our greatest source of water is very serious.
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Earth running out of freshwater
Unless water use is drastically reduced
