Droughts and floods: How to save the world's water supply | DW News

It's World Water Week, and unprecedented droughts and heatwaves have put water scarcity in sharp focus. Worldwide, more than two billion people lack access to clean water, and water-scarce regions suffer from acute hunger, poor sanitation and disease. South Africa is on the front line. Four years ago Cape Town feared its water would run out. But now another city further East is facing that problem: Our correspondent Adrian Kriesch reports from Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape. It's going through an extreme water shortage.

But while some parts of the world struggle with a severe lack of water, other regions face the devastating effects of too much water brought by extreme downpours. In the United States, heavy rain and flash flooding have been causing chaos in parts of the south and southwest, with hundreds of people forced to evacuate.The state of Texas has been particularly hard hit, with record-breaking rainfall in Dallas.

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