TREE NEWS reports: The World Meteorological Organization said in its State of Global Water Resources report released on the 17th that 2025 was among the driest years for global rivers in 35 years. Terrestrial water storage continued a near-decade-long decline, and the world’s major glacier regions lost ice for a fourth consecutive year. The WMO warned that the global water cycle is becoming more erratic and harder to predict, posing long-term risks to water security.
WMO: 2025 One of Driest Years for Rivers in 35 Years
AI take
The WMO is framing this as a structural trend, not a single bad year: multi-year declines in terrestrial water storage and a fourth straight year of glacier ice loss point to cumulative depletion rather than volatility. That distinction matters for anyone pricing long-dated water risk, from utilities to agricultural supply chains to the hydropower assumptions embedded in data-center and industrial siting. The open question is whether this report shifts water from an ESG footnote to a hard input in infrastructure and commodity planning.
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