How bad is the global water crisis?

• 1.1 billion people lack access to water and 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation; most of these populations are in developing countries
• Over 50% of the world’s wetlands have been lost in the last century alone
• Most of the world’s largest rivers are losing their connection to the sea and nearly a quarter of those left risk being disconnected in the next 15 years
• Only one-third of the world’s 177 large rivers (1,000km and longer) remain free-flowing, unimpeded by dams or other barriers
• There has bee more than a 50% decline in freshwater species populations over the last 30 years, making species loss in freshwater ecosystems faster than any other biome