Facts & figures
Figures:
- 9.1 Global hydrological fluxes and storages (expressed in 1,000 km3 per year), illustrating natural and anthropogenic cycles
- 9.2 Shrinkage of Lake Chad
- 9.3 United States water withdrawals from all sources (1950-2010)
- 9.4 Global hydrogeological map illustrating various aquifers and groundwater resources
- 9.5 Global trends in increasing groundwater use
- 9.6 Examples of surface streams affected by acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD) and/or tailings discharges: (left) Urban stream severely affected by AMD in western Witwatersrand Basin, Johannesburg, South Africa; (right) Tailings sediment from Samarco Dam
- 9.7 Rivers originating in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas are among the most meltwater-dependent systems
- 9.8 Retreat of Quelccaya ice cap in Peru between 1988 (left) to 2010 (right)
- 9.9 Global physical and economic water scarcityA3
- 9.10 Model estimates of trends in faecal coliform bacteria levels in rivers during 1990-1992 and 2008-2010
- 9.11 Sources of anthropogenic total phosphorus loadings to lakes (five largest lakes by surface area in each of the five UN Environment regions), showing average percentage contributions in 2008-2010 annual loads
- 9.12 Model estimates of trends in biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) concentrations in rivers between 1990-1992 and 2008-2010
- 9.13 Source and pathways of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) entering surface and groundwater, highlighting need for improved detection of commonly found PPCPs and their transformative products
- 9.14 Status and trends of the world’s wetlands disaggregated by region
- 9.15 Taxonomic differences in threat frequency for 449 declining freshwater populations in Living Planet Index (LPI) database
- 9.16 Migratory fish from the Living Planet Index (LPI) exhibiting a decline of 41 per cent between 1970 and 2012, with a recent upturn, and freshwater LPI for 881 monitored freshwater species exhibiting an 81 per cent decline
- 9.17 Variations in trends in drinking water supply coverage across regions
- 9.18 Summary of global progress in providing basic drinking water services and disproportionate impact on women in areas still lacking access to basic drinking water services
- 9.19 Proportion of population using improved sanitation facilities in 2015
- 9.20 Location of dams and reservoirs around the world. Data include dams associated with reservoirs that have a storage capacity of more than 0.1 km³ and may not represent large dams and reservoirs that have been constructed in more recent years
- 9.21 Morbidity (total disability-adjusted life years, DALYs) from diarrheal diseases (all ages) for females (upper graphic) and males (lower graphic), globally
- 9.22 Hermanus Conjunctive Use
- 9.23 Supply of and demand for water, Greater Hermanus, 1971-2001 (a) and 2002-2017 (b)
- 9.24 Ramsar sites designated by year and by region
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