Water is a crucial and irreplaceable part of daily human life. As the world’s population expands and global temperatures rise, the demand for water proportionally increases.
In the last twenty years, worldwide water reserves have been depleting, even though the total storage capacity has expanded due to the building of additional reservoirs.
Led by Dr. Huilin Gao, associate professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, researchers used a new approach with satellite data to estimate the storage variations of 7,245 global reservoirs from 1999 to 2018.
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