"Global Water Crisis: Climate Change and Collective Action"

Climate change is disrupting the water cycle across the U.S., leading to extreme precipitation, flooding, drought, and contaminated water supplies. The delicate balance of the water cycle, which controls Earth's climate system, is being increasingly stretched and broken as the planet warms. Rising temperatures are intensifying evaporation, transpiration, and runoff, causing shifts in water availability and supply. Extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and wildfires, are becoming more severe and frequent, while water supply is dwindling in Western states and the Midwest. Human activities and climate change are adding stress to the movement of water between land, oceans, and the atmosphere, impacting millions of people across the U.S.