It’s not only significant parts of the UK which are suffering drought problems, it is a serious global problem which may mean wheeling all the desalination machines we can lay our hands on!
Green Cross International is marked World Water Day by calling for intensified action to protect the hundreds of millions of people whose lives and wellbeing are endangered by the global water crisis and related food security challenges, particularly in the face of more frequent and intense drought and flooding.
Marie-Laure Vercambre, Director of Green Cross International’s Water for Life and Peace Programme (seen here on the right); “Much remains to be done. Almost 800 million people still live without access to safe water and three times that number lack sanitation systems. 
“Unlike the goal for water, the target to provide more people with basic sanitation will unlikely be met. We know climate change, industrialisation and poor sharing of water are the key drivers of the world water crisis.
“So why are we not doing more to implement the necessary actions to ensure all people have access to water and sanitation, which is a basic human right?”
Green Cross International, the nongovernmental organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993 to address the nexus of environmental degradation, insecurity and poverty, called for nations to support two essential initiatives: implementation of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation in their own countries, and ratification of the United Nations Watercourses Convention for sharing cross-border rivers and connected watercourses.
More information: www.gcint.org