Kabul is expected to become the first modern city to completely run out of water. Mexico City is sinking by about 50 centimeters a year due to excessive strain on the massive water reservoir beneath it. In the southwestern United States, states are constantly competing to share the shrinking waters of the drought-stricken Colorado River.

Axar.az reports that this was stated in a United Nations report.

‘Since 1990, more than 50 percent of the world’s major lakes have lost water. Seventy percent of major groundwater sources (aquifers) are in a long-term decline. Over the past 50 years, wetland areas equivalent to the size of the European Union have disappeared. Glaciers have shrunk by 30 percent since 1970. The consequences are severe: around 4 billion people face water shortages for at least one month every year,’ the report said.