Are we heading towards a water crisis? - BBC News

By 2025, nearly two billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity according to the United Nations.

Many countries now face decisions over how to provide water to their citizens.

Reality Check takes a look at five potential solutions.

Produced and presented by Nadeem Shad

Motion graphics by Jacqueline Galvin

[chrissistarski]

Why do you fall to mention the global corporations buying up and depleting aquafers for bottled water? Microplastic contamination?
It's great you are trying to raise awareness of the issue but if 97% of water usage is industrial and not community or personally based why are you putting the onus on the 3% to change their ways.

[DinoCantBeSerious]

My science teacher sent me here

OnLiNe ScHoOl WoRk!!

[history]

What's up with those modern presenters shoving the camera so close to their face. Nobody wants to see up your nose

[Imsuper]

YES we are! There have been warnings about this very issue for about 20 years!

[megumin]

5 million subscribers
24k views
No respect for environment awarnesss vids

[ToolBoxes]

Wow everyone here is either here from google classroom or mums that look at minion memes on Facebook

[Aamie]

57 Board members at nestle disliked this video

[fortfish]

Just start a Colosseum. Let people battle to the death for water. That should solve the water and people crisis.

[Strictdhe]

Something I don't understand, they say that seas are rising and they also say we are running out of water, wtf is going on?

[randombastid]

Tell us something we DON'T know! We all know this!! Did you just get the memo?? I could have done this story for you 30 yrs ago genius!!

[davidrobertsemail]

The BBC never tires from lecturing us about the environment.
Maybe we could save the £3.6 billion in tax the BBC gets every year from us to spend on worthwhile water projects here in the UK

[fazilmp]

Tell to government to start more industries and deforestation become make more fastly. So there will be no humans alive in the world. Problem solved

[currahee]

Also constant use of groundwater reserves makes the ground sink in certain areas, like Jakarta and Manila

[pFclips-]

Ice is melting don’t worry people we have water

[GY-hdbr]

Water will be more valuable than oil someday

[TheRocktalk]

In Scotland we should be ok - more water in Loch Ness than England and Wales combined. That's just one loch and we've thousands of them!

[RupeWilson]

Stop selling bottled water where is not needed. England's tap water is ok to drink most of the time.. tap water for me please.

[sarafaghihi]

Bottled water isn’t necessarily a better alternative to the tap water ! People need to be aware of the nanoparticles in the water from the plastic! It’s our human right to have access to clean water!

[worldfoods]

There is such a huge water exploitation in richer country due to levels of development, compared to poorer countries, yet everyone has to suffer the damages that the rich cause.

[Malath]

I don't understand what he said .l wish to speak English like him😇