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UN World Water Development Report 2024
March 29 , 2024
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- The Freshwater use has been growing by just under 1% per year.
- Agriculture accounts for roughly 70% of freshwater withdrawals.
- It is followed by industrial (≈20%) and domestic (≈10%) uses are the main drivers of increasing water demand.
- One quarter of the world’s population face ‘extremely high’ levels of water stress.
- In higher-income countries, runoff from agriculture poses the most serious problem.
- Emerging contaminants of concern include per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), pharmaceuticals, hormones, industrial chemicals, detergents, cyanotoxins and nanomaterials.
- High concentrations of antimicrobials, originating from insufficiently treated domestic wastewater, livestock farming and aquaculture, have been found across all regions.
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