Picture this: You grab a glass or reusable bottle, turn the faucet on, and eagerly await that refreshing sip of water. But what if we told you that climate change is jeopardizing our access to clean tap water and posing risks to its quality? As global temperatures rise and weather patterns become increasingly erratic, the impact on our drinking water grows more apparent in developing and industria
"Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach, which is shocking, scary and a huge wake-up call."
The one-day UN Climate Change Summit in New York, the largest of its kind since the 2009 meeting in Copenhagen, has ended with a general consensus from government leaders to commit to action on tacking the impact of global warming. But Sweden's international Bluewater™ water purifying company says there is an urgent need to put increasing contamination of tap water on the climate change agenda.