human water security and river diversity
Here we present the first global plan to jointly consider the views of the people and the various forms of water security using a local framework that measures the many pressures and accounts of the effects below. We find that about 80% of the world's population faces high levels of threat to water security. Major investment in water technology enables rich countries to eliminate high levels of stress without fixing their causes, while richer small countries remain at risk. The same lack of cautious investment threatens biodiversity, with settlements associated with 65% continental depletion classified as internal by the most threatened. The consolidated threat framework provides a tool to prioritize policy responses and management in this crisis and emphasizes the need to reduce threats to their source rather than fixing costly costs to ensure globalization human water protection and a variety of clean water . Water is widely regarded as an important source of natural res