- By the middle of this century, the entire Tibetan Plateau, also known as the “Water Tower” of Asia, will lose a substantial part of its water storage, a study has revealed.
- A team of scientists from Penn State, Tsinghua University and the University of Texas at Austin found that climate change in recent decades has led to a severe depletion in terrestrial water storage (TWS).
- The Amu Darya basin, Indus, Ganges–Brahmaputra, Salween–Mekong, Yangtze and Yellow rivers were selected for this analysis because of large populations and water demand in the downstream areas.
How climate change is driving water scarcity in Asia 26.08.2022
