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GSMA: 3.8 billion people do not use mobile broadband
2021-09-29 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
In the past couple of years, the spotlight of the mobile telecoms world has been firmly fixated on 5G, from spectrum auctions to its often flashy emerging use cases. But while the latest generation of mobile connectivity is undeniably important, it is also vital to remember the extent to which much of the world remains cut off from mobile internet altogether…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Virus could push half a billion people into poverty
2020-04-09 05:28:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
UN research warns the coronavirus pandemic could put a further 8% of world's population in poverty.
Four Billion People Suffer From Severe Water Scarcity World Wide
2016-02-16 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Nearly 66 percent of the world's human population suffers from insufficient access to fresh water for at least one month out of the year. This estimate, which equates to about four billion people, is far greater than scientists thought. Previously it was believed that that between 1.7 and 3.1 billion people lived with moderate to severe water scarcity for at least one month of year. However, in the latest study, led by Dr. Arjen Hoekstra of the Netherlands' University of Twente, researchers used...
Four billion people affected by severe water scarcity
2016-02-15 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: There are four billion people worldwide who are affected by severe water scarcity for at least one month a year. That is the conclusion of University of Twente Professor of Water Management, Arjen Hoekstra, after many years' extensive research. This alarming figure is much higher than was previously thought. His ground-breaking research was published in Science Advances. Professor Hoekstra's team is the first research group in the world to identify people's water footprint from month to month and...
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Water supply for 2 billion people at risk as snowpack declines across northern hemisphere
2015-11-18 07:06:11| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Snowfields once considered permanent are shrinking from the Rocky Mountains to the Himalayas. Nearly 100 drainage basins across the northern hemisphere that currently supply water to 2 billion people in the American West, southern Europe, the Mideast and central Asia are at considerable risk over the next century. Dwindling water supplies will not be a universal impact of declining snowpacks due to climate change, however. Scientists have observed declining snowpack accumulation across the...
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