You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.
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You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.
More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.
We can create new ways to create clean water.
There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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