This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of
global and national water securities, how different countries are
attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are
likely to succeed. A major global concern at present, especially after
the social and economic havoc that has been caused by COVID-19 in only
one year, is how we can return to earlier levels of economic development
patterns and then further improve the process so that sustainable
development goals are reached to the extent possible by 2030, in both
developed and developing countries. Mankind is now facing two
existential problems over the next several decades. These are climate
change and whether the world will have access to enough water to meet
all its food, energy, environment and health needs. Much of expected
climate change impacts can be seen through the lens of extreme
hydrological events, like droughts, floods and other extreme
hydrometeorological events.
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