Water shortages ‘likely to affect five billion people by 2050’

UN warns of threat of civil unrest, mass migration and wars over water

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A boy walks over cracked mud on the banks of a dried-out river in Allahabad, north India 
(Image credit: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)

Climate change and a growing global population are likely to threaten the water security of more than half of the world’s predicted nine billion people by 2050, according to a new UN report.

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