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Water crises due to climate change: more severe than previously thought

ScienceDaily · Vienna University of Technology · last updated

Climate change alters the global atmospheric circulation, which in turn alters precipitation and evaporation in large parts of the world and, in consequence, the amount of river water that can be used locally.

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