How the world's growing water crisis is endangering $300bn of business value

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Studies have indicated the world's wetlands are disappearing three times faster than its forests
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Studies have indicated the world's wetlands are disappearing three times faster than its forests

Taking action to deal with water shortages and pollution will cost $55bn, just a fraction of the cost of failing to act, CDP estimates

Water is critical to life on earth. But the world's fresh water sources are degrading fast, a central facet in the interlinked environmental crises that human activity has unleashed across the globe...

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