Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was quoted in a Smithsonian Magazine article examining a recent report from the United Nations University, the U.N.’s research arm, that finds climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” a state they define as a long-term condition that requires a global reset in approaches. Scanlan highlighted the report’s value in showing repeat patterns. She said, “It’s not just the Southern Hemisphere, it’s not just the Middle East. There is something larger at play in terms of how we’re treating water across the world.” Professor Scanlan’s water law and policy research has included analysis of water budget issues, highlighting how climate change and population pressures have intensified water management challenges in the relatively water-rich North American Great Lakes.
Read the full article from the Smithsonian Magazine here: United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of ‘Global Water Bankruptcy’. Read the UN report.
And read the Center’s law review article on climate change and population pressures intensifying water management challenges here.