World faces ‘self-inflicted’ water shortages within a generation
“Water in the Anthropocene” is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle.
Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch — the Anthropocene when human activity dominates geological developments.
Human activities such as damming and agriculture are changing the global water cycle in significant ways.
The data visualisation was commissioned by the Global Water Systems Project for a major international conference” “Water in the Anthropocene” held in Bonn, Germany, from 21-24 May, 2013.
You can view the film here.