The financial impact of water risk could amount to $301 Billion USD versus $55 Billion USD to address those risks, according to the 2020 Global Water Report issued 3 March by the CDP.
The report also notes progress in water use, with two/thirds of the nearly 3,000 participating companies saying they are reducing or maintaining water withdrawals, while more than half are monitoring the quality of their wastewater discharges.
However, it finds that just 4.4 Percent of businesses are making progress against water pollution reduction targets.
A major report calls for international water security issues to be elevated within US foreign policy and national security activities as part of a wider case for rebooting US national security architecture and doctrine in response to unravelling ecological and natural security.
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<p>Two communities on the Niger Delta have won the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2018-0068-press-summary.pdf… to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts</a> over decades of oil pollution that has damaged rivers, coastal areas and farmland as well as health, The UK Supreme Court overruled a previous Appeal Court finding that there was no real issue to be tried.<!--break--></p><p>Although Shell does not dispute the fact of the