News Headline
Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2021-05-11
On April 11, 2020, a band of fighters stormed and seized a water control station in the Libyan Sahara. Taking employees prisoner, they occupied a key nexus that helps move 1.2 million cubic meters (317 million gallons) of water per day — 480 Olympic-sized swimming pools — from freshwater aquifers beneath the desert down to the coast.