{"id":320171,"date":"2026-02-23T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/era-of-global-water-bankruptcy-is-here-un-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:01:21","slug":"era-of-global-water-bankruptcy-is-here-un-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/era-of-global-water-bankruptcy-is-here-un-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Era of &#8216;global water bankruptcy&#8217; is here, UN report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Q8q5kjhWW9s\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Era of 'global water bankruptcy' is here, UN report says\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8q5kjhWW9s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\u2018For much of the world, \u201cnormal\u201d is gone.\u2019<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>This is what Prof Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, said to journalists in New York after publishing a report declaring that the world had entered an era of \u2018global water bankruptcy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is not to kill hope but to encourage action and an honest admission of failure today to protect and enable tomorrow,\u2019 Madani said.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-five percent of people live in countries classified as water-insecure or critically water-insecure and 2 billion people live on ground that is sinking as groundwater aquifers collapse, while some the most visible signs of water bankruptcy are the 700 sinkholes peppering the heavily farmed Konya plain in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Water overuse and pollution must be tackled urgently, the report\u2019s lead author said, because no one knows when the whole system could collapse, with implications for peace and social cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>Water-related conflicts have almost doubled since 2022 alone, while scarcity threatens to force up food prices.<\/p>\n<p>The report, released last month, also points out that the risks are falling disproportionately on smallholder farmers, Indigenous peoples, low-income urban residents and women and young people, while the benefits of overuse often accrue to more powerful individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Find out why we are facing \u2018water bankruptcy\u2019 \u2013 and what that looks like for the planet \u2013 in this video with our environment editor, Damian Carrington.<\/p>\n<p>#water #watershortages #drought #waterbankruptcy #un #unitednations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018For much of the world, \u201cnormal\u201d is gone.\u2019 Subscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 This is what Prof Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, said to journalists in New York after publishing a report declaring that the world had entered an era of \u2018global water bankruptcy\u2019. \u2018This is not to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":320172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[133915,130068,129610],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-320171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-for","tag-much","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Era of &#039;global water bankruptcy&#039; is here, UN report says | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Era of &#039;global water bankruptcy&#039; is here, UN report says for free, here on News ISC. 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