Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the first-ever World Day for Glaciers hosted by UNESCO in Paris.
Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the first-ever World Day for Glaciers hosted by UNESCO in Paris.
The glaciers that sit high in the Andes - or Andean Mountain Range - extend through Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, and provide water used for domestic consumption, hydroelectric power, industry, irrigation of arable crops and supporting livestock farming.
A new policy brief, ‘the future of the Andean water towers’ will be presented at the conference on 21 March 2025, by scientists studying the depleting water supplies due to retreating Andean glaciers from the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle. It outlines how the shrinking of the glaciers poses a very real threat to the water and food security of the millions of people dependent on them.
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