About one quarter of world's population live in basin of drying lake

Axios - About one-quarter of the world's population, or 2 billion people, lives in the basin of a drying lake, per the study published in the journal Science . Water insecurity is already an issue, with hundreds of millions of people around the world lacking reliable access to safe water. The team of international researchers looked at 250,000 lake-area satellite images taken from 1992 until 2020 to examine the area and water levels of 1,972 freshwater bodies. 53% of lakes globally experienced a drop in water storage during that period — a water loss equivalent in volume to 17 Lake Meads, the largest reservoir in the U.S., according to the study.