Kabul is the first modern city expected to run completely dry. Mexico City is sinking approximately 50 centimeters per year due to the overloading of the giant water basin beneath it. States in the southwestern United States are constantly struggling to share the dwindling waters of the Colorado River, which is suffering from drought.
Elchi.az reports that this was noted in the UN report.
“Since 1990, more than 50 percent of the planet’s major lakes have lost water. 70 percent of major groundwater sources (aquifers) are in a long-term decline phase. Over the past 50 years, wetland areas the size of the European Union have disappeared. Glaciers have shrunk by 30 percent since 1970. The consequences of all this are also severe: approximately 4 billion people face water shortages for at least one month each year,” the report said.