Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.

Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday. "Nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world's food production are now in areas where total water storage is projected…

Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.

The water crisis could jeopardise more than half of the world's food production and cause an average global GDP loss of 8 per cent by 2050, with lower-income countries facing up to a 15 per cent loss, according to a new report.

Disruptions of the water cycle 'have major global economic impacts,' said the report

More than half the world's food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have w...

Half of the world’s food production and 15 per cent of lower-income countries' GDP is at risk due to an ongoing water crisis, according to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water co-chaired by Singapore president Tharman Shanmugaratnam. 

Half of the world’s food production and 15 per cent of lower-income countries' GDP is at risk due to an ongoing water crisis, according to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water co-chaired by Singapore president Tharman Shanmugaratnam.