From drought to delugeCeleste SauloSecretary-General in World Meteorological Organization💧 The water cycle has become increasingly erratic an...
Published on by Hossein Ataei Far, Deputy Manager of the Research, Technology Development, and Industry Relations Center at NWWEC
Celeste Saulo
Secretary-General in World Meteorological Organization
💧 The water cycle has become increasingly erratic and extreme, swinging between too much and too little water with major impacts on economies and society.
The new World Meteorological Organization #StateofWater report being launched today highlights the following:
🟢 Only one third of river basins had normal conditions in 2024. The rest were either above or below average – the sixth consecutive year of clear imbalance.
❄️ All glacier regions worldwide reported losses due to melt for the third straight year.
🔴 Drought gripped the Amazon Basin and other parts of South America, as well as southern Africa.
🔵 Floods caused massive social and economic disruption in central, western and eastern Africa, parts of Asia and Central Europe.
My conclusion:
Reliable, science-based information is more important than ever before because we cannot manage what we do not measure.
The WMO’s State of Global Water Resources Report 2024 is part of WMO’s commitment to provide that knowledge.
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