'One in Five Water Boreholes We Dig Now is Dry or Unfit for Humans to Drink' - Oxfam
August 25, 2023
August 25, 2023
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 25 (TNSres) -- Oxfam America issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023:
Climate-induced water insecurity poses one of the biggest threats to humanity and will lead to more hunger, disease, and displacement.
Oxfam water engineers are having to drill deeper, more expensive, and harder-to-maintain water boreholes used by some of the poorest communities around the world, more often now only to find dry, depleted or polluted reservoirs. < . . .
Climate-induced water insecurity poses one of the biggest threats to humanity and will lead to more hunger, disease, and displacement.
Oxfam water engineers are having to drill deeper, more expensive, and harder-to-maintain water boreholes used by some of the poorest communities around the world, more often now only to find dry, depleted or polluted reservoirs. < . . .