BLACKSBURG, Va., March 20 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Freshwater systems worldwide are under increasing pressure. As populations grow and economies expand, water is being extracted faster than nature can replenish it. Pollution and climate change are further degrading water quality.
Together, these forces are intensifying water scarcity and threatening human health, ecosystems, and economic stability. Yet despite the urgency, researchers still lack integrated data to fully understand how freshwater systems are changing and how to respond.
A new $9.5 million research effort funded by Schmidt Sciences, known as Re-Analysis of Water for Society (RAWS), takes on that challenge by ...