Background and Objectives
In alignment with UN Water’s 2022 theme of ‘Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible’, this session focused entirely on groundwater and the critical role it plays in climate change mitigation, resilience and adaptation.
Groundwater accounts for more than 97 percent of the available freshwater on the planet, yet, due to its invisibility below ground, many decision makers are not aware that agriculture, industry and residences depend heavily on groundwater or that groundwater risks depletion and degradation as a result of climate change impacts and over-exploitation