A recent report published by the United Nations University — Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) has raised a red flag regarding India’s dwindling groundwater levels.
The ‘Interconnected Disaster Risks Report 2023’ focuses on six environmental tipping points, including groundwater depletion, and reveals a dire situation worldwide.
- Accelerating extinctions: A chain reaction to ecosystem collapse
- Groundwater depletion: Draining water, risking food supply
- Mountain glaciers melting: Running on thin ice
- Space debris: Losing eyes in the sky
- Unbearable heat: Living in the unliveable
- Uninsurable future: With rising risks, insurance becomes unreachable
The 2023 Interconnected Disaster Risks report also proposes a new framework to classify and discuss the effectiveness of solutions that can help humanity address risk tipping points. The resulting framework has four categories:
- Avoid-Delay
- Avoid-Transform
- Adapt-Delay
- Adapt-Transform