Some two billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 3.6 billion lack access to reliable sanitation services
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Overconsumption and climate change have led to water shortages "becoming endemic" around the world, creating an "imminent risk" of a global crisis, the United Nations warned in a report Tuesday.
Some two billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 3.6 billion lack access to reliable sanitation services, the UN Water Forum and UNESCO said in a joint report, released hours before a rare conference on the issue opens in New York.
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