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Geographer Anson Mackay on the ecosystem services, the demands on freshwater around the Earth and the decline in biodiversity.
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'One of the problems is that freshwater itself is very unevenly distributed, so in North America there is over half the world's freshwater, for Southeast Asia it has only about sort of 10% of permanent surface freshwater. The 60% of the world population live in Southeast Asia, so the demands there are very large and very extreme, and that's why it is of a great concern.'
Anson Mackay, Professor of Geography, University College London
Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystem: serious-science.org/human-impact-on-freshwater-ecosystem-9660
Glaciology: serious-science.org/glaciology-10043
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Geographer Anson Mackay on the ecosystem services, the demands on freshwater around the Earth and the decline in biodiversity.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/water-security-10123
'One of the problems is that freshwater itself is very unevenly distributed, so in North America there is over half the world's freshwater, for Southeast Asia it has only about sort of 10% of permanent surface freshwater. The 60% of the world population live in Southeast Asia, so the demands there are very large and very extreme, and that's why it is of a great concern.'
Anson Mackay, Professor of Geography, University College London
Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystem: serious-science.org/human-impact-on-freshwater-ecosystem-9660
Glaciology: serious-science.org/glaciology-10043
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