Shrinked lakes, altered rivers and degraded wetlands.

Around one-third of the word's basins experience significant flow alterations.

 More than half of the world's large lakes have declined.

Around 35% of the world's wetlands have been lost

Quality degradation further accelerates the finctional loss of of these surface water.

Paired satellite images (4–5 TM and Landsat 8–9 Level-2 true-color) showing the shrinkage of: 1) the world's third largest lake, Aral Sea (1989, topleft vs. 2025 top-right), lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; and 2) the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, Great Salt Lake, U.S.A. (1986, bottom left vs. 2022, bottom-right) due to increased upstream water use and reduced inflows, illustrating parallel declines of large inland lakes

Figure 4. Global human exposure to wildfire. The map on top shows cumulative human exposure to wildfire in each country from 2002-2021 and the plot on the bottom shows the continuous growth in the number of people who are exposed to wildfires globally, mainly driven by the impacts of human activities resulting in global warming and higher temperatures, more frequent droughts, increased water use, reduced water availability, and anthropogenic drought, deforestation, land use changes, and urbanization.