Ripple marks: Climate change leaves mark on water; impacts the vulnerable more (Daily Hunt)  

Daily Hunt (India) published an article on how climate change has a significant impact on water – direct or indirect – leading to serious social and economic issues in highly vulnerable countries such as India. Millions of poor are struggling to live with low adaptive capacity, fast diminishing reliable water resources, large-scale wetland degradation, and unsustainable water management. A recent IFPRI study, Role of water security for agricultural and economic development – concepts and global scenarios by Claudia Ringler et al. in C. Pahl-Wostl, J. Gupta, and Bhaduri (eds) Handbook on water security (see also, the IFPRI Policy Note, Investments in Irrigation for Global Food Security), found that more than half the world’s population and approximately half of global grain production will be at risk due to water stress by 2050.