WMO: 250 Mln people in Africa to be affected by high water scarcity by 2030

By 2030, 250 million people in Africa will be affected by a scarcity of freshwater, according to a UN report.

The document on the State of the Climate in Africa said the phenomenon is expected to displace up to 700 million people on the continent by the same year.

“An estimated 58 million people in Eastern Africa are experiencing acute food insecurity, whilst another 23.7 million in Sahel and West Africa were estimated to be in a crisis or worse,” said the report released by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

“Around 14 million people were internally displaced in sub-Saharan Africa for various causes and 2.5 million due to disasters, while out of five African countries are unlikely to have sustainably managed water resources by 2030,” the report read.