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The World Meteorological Organisation released its new report The State of Global Water Resources 2024.
This annual report is an authoritative assessment of global freshwater availability and water storage – including lakes, river flow, groundwater, soil moisture, snow and ice. It gives information on hydrological extremes in 2024 and provides information for policy-makers on droughts, floods and glacier retreat which highlight our changing climate and water cycle.
Journalists came to this news briefing to hear some of the authors discuss their findings.
Speakers included:
Dr Stefan Uhlenbrook, WMO Director of Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere Division
Dr Sulagna Mishra, WMO scientific officer and report coordinator
Lucy Barker, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Senior Hydrological Analyst
Dr Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Group leader (glaciology), World Glacier Monitoring Service