The world’s rivers are swinging more wildly between drought and flood, with six years in a row now showing an increasingly erratic water cycle, a UN report says.
The State of Global Water Resources 2024 report, published by the World Meteorological Organisation, says only about a third of major river basins last year had flows within the normal range. The rest were either dangerously low or unusually high, a clear sign of disruption to the water cycle that sustains communities, ecosystems and economies.
