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This aerial photograph taken on May 11, 2022 shows railway employees preparing to refill the water in a tanker of a special train before dispatching for the Pali district on a hot summer day at Bhagat Ki Kothi railway station in Jodhpur. - Every day dozens of villagers, mostly women and children, wait with blue plastic jerry cans and metal pots for a special train bringing precious water to people suffering a heatwave in India's desert state of Rajasthan. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP) Image used for illustrative purpose.
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.