"Billions of people are facing the reality of irreversible water “bankruptcy", according to a stark warning from UN researchers.
The report said water supplies are "already in a post-crisis state of failure" after decades of unsustainable extraction rates that have drawn down water "savings" contained in aquifers, glaciers, soils, wetlands and river ecosystems, with supplies also degraded by pollution."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/world-water-supplies-bankruptcy-un-b2904219.html