CLIMATE CHANGE

BETWEEN 1991 AND 2000 OVER

665,000 PEOPLE DIED IN 2,557
NATURAL DISASTERS OF WHICH
WERE WATER
RELATED EVENTS.
Adaptation to climate change is mainly
about better water management.

Without
management,
the
Wit o t improved
p ve water
w e resources
reso
an g e
h progress
p o ress towards
poverty
p er reduction
u io targets,
t
t the
h Millennium
M len iu Development
e lo m t Goals,
al ,
and
and
an sustainable
su t in le development
ev p e t in all
a its economic,
e o o ic, social
so
n environmental
en iro
t
dimensions,
d en n , will
ill be
e jeopardized.
j p
ized

PROJECTED
CHANGE
IN RUNOFF
IN 2041-60:

Milly, P.C.D., K.A. Dunne, A.V. Vecchia,

Global pattern of trends in streamflow
and water availability in a changing
climate
Nature/,* 438*, 347-350, 2005
(with technical modifications).

>90%

>66%
-40 -20 -10 -5

-2

10 20 40

Multimodel mean-changes in annual runoff indicating degree of agreement between the 12 models used