the coal mine for an impending freshwater crisis of global proportions unesco the united nations educational scientific and cultural organizations new world water development report paints a dire picture for the future unless major global changes are made to how we use and recycle our water supplies the guardian reports that according to the study more than five billion people could suffer water shortages by two thousand and fifty due to climate change increased demand and polluted supplies the development report goes on to predict that by two thousand and fifty somewhere between four point eight and five point seven billion human beings will live in areas that face water scarcity is for at least one month each year this is up from the three point six billion people living under those conditions today so with the world now staring down the reality of losing one half of life's two most important components just how will humanity solve the problem and the answer might be a lot more simple than we've been allowed ourselves to think and treated intriguing to have these numbers for a lot of. the bird that w

the coal mine for an impending freshwater crisis of global proportions unesco the united nations educational scientific and cultural organizations new world water development report paints a dire picture for the future unless major global changes are made to how we use and recycle our water supplies the guardian reports that according to the study more than five billion people could suffer water shortages by two thousand and fifty two to climate change increased demand and polluted supplies the development report goes on to predict that by two thousand and fifty somewhere between four point eight and five point seven billion human beings will live in areas that face water scarcity is for at least one month each year this is up from the three point six billion people living under those conditions today so with the world now staring down the reality of losing one half of life's two most important components just how will humanity solve the problem and the answer might be a lot more simple than we've been allowed ourselves to think and treated intriguing to have these numbers for a lot of. the bird that w

what they are now talking about alternative methods joining me now from unesco the united nations educational scientificand cultural branches stephan broke unesco is just produced a report in which you talk about. nature based solutions stephan if you could sum in little bit about what's on nature based solution age of a solution so solutions that help to achieve water management oject just for instance to improve water availability reduce flooding or reduce droughts the impact of drought but also to improve the water quality and nature can help nature can do the job you know by enhancing water quality for instance or natural or constructed wetlands or storing the water in the landscape so different. different possibilities that wetlands is one thing but also different ways of conserve conservation in the agricultural field or reforestation cetera et cetera can you give me an example perhaps something that you know you're putting into place or put into place that's been successful well there's many examples and so far the as you said the just too much so we need to form traditional human built race illu