mo4ch:>Quarter of world’s population suffers ‘extreme water stress’, India overshadows the list | Mo4ch News

While ranked ‘only’ 13th in the water scarcity list, India has more than three times the population of all 17 other countries the World Resources Institute found to be facing “extremely high” water stress levels.A quarter of the world’s population residing in seventeen countries is facing “extremely high” levels of baseline water shortages, using over 80 percent of the local renewable supply, updated Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas data compiled by the World Resources Institute (WRI) showed.The report named Qatar as the globe’s most water-stressed country, followed by Israel, Lebanon and Iran.Twelve countries outlined in the WRI index are found in the Middle East and North Africa, where the hot and dry climate leaves water supply levels at a natural disadvantage. However, the growing demands from irrigated agriculture, as well as other industries and municipalities, “have pushed countries further into extreme stress,” the study warns. To avoid the so-called “Day Zero” scenario, where water …