Only a third of world rivers had water within normal range in 2024: WMO

Just around a third of rivers across the globe had water within the normal range in 2024 and almost 60 per cent of them either showed too much or too little water for the sixth year running, according to the "The Status of Global Water Resources in 2024 Report' from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released on Thursday.

- SANJEEB MUKHERJEE

The report contains input from a wide network of hydrological experts, including National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, Global Data Centres, global hydrological modelling community members. NASA, ESA, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the World Glacier Monitoring Service, Global Runoff Data Centre (G