Latest news and stories about water crisis in Portugal for expats and residents.
We have already exceeded the planetary boundary for freshwater. Even so, we continue to act as if water is something that will be there forever. It is dangerous creative accounting: spending what we no longer have. Opinion by Sílvia Moutinho
A UN report says the term 'water crisis' no longer reflects the reality in many places, where 'irreversible damage has pushed river basins to a point of no return'.
If water is liquid money, we are at the beginning of a global bankruptcy era, warn UN scientists who outline the new post-crisis reality for billions of people.
The document argues that a 'global water bankruptcy' should be recognised and calls for a redefinition of a global water agenda.
