{"id":4992,"date":"2019-08-30T09:43:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"more-people-less-water-scientists-see-risks-on-upper-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/30\/more-people-less-water-scientists-see-risks-on-upper-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"More People, Less Water? Scientists See Risks On Upper Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b> By Laurie Goering<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rapid population growth, combined with a hike in hot and dry years, is likely to dramatically increase the number of people suffering water scarcity on the upper River Nile, climate change scientists said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 2030, demand for Nile water will exceed supply, and by 2080, almost two-thirds of people living in the upper Nile basin could face water shortages in particularly hot and dry years, researchers from U.S.-based Dartmouth College predicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That could affect close to 250 million in the upper basin by 2080, researchers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A shortfall looms despite overall rainfall to the region growing as a result of global warming, they said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2019EF001247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;published in the journal Earth&#8217;s Future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Nile basin is one of several fast-growing, predominately agricultural regions that is really on the brink of severe water scarcity&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190828162701-abeyk\/\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laurie Goering Rapid population growth, combined with a hike in hot and dry years, is likely to dramatically increase the number of people suffering water scarcity on the upper&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}