{"id":125684,"date":"2026-09-22T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=125684"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:00:51","slug":"state-of-global-water-resources-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/state-of-global-water-resources-report\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Global Water Resources 2025 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>State of Global Water Resources Report Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s groundwater levels are declining persistently, according to the State of Global Water Resources 2025 report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About State of Global Water Resources (SGWR) Report<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is annually published by the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-meteorological-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Meteorological Organization (WMO)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides a comprehensive quantitative overview of global water resources, with a focus on hydrological variability and trends.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>SGWR 2025 Report Highlights:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satellite observations and hydrological models showed that<\/span><b> 42% of global land area<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had <\/span><b>below-normal water storage in 2025.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The measure covers water in rivers, streams and lakes, groundwater, soil moisture, snow and ice.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Global terrestrial water storage <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has shown a declining trend since 2014\u20132016 \u2014 a persistent, decade-long signal.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the <\/span><b>fourth consecutive year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, every <\/span><b>major glaciated region <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on Earth<\/span><b> lost ice mass.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>estimated loss during the 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hydrological year was about 408 gigatonnes, equivalent to roughly <\/span><b>1.1 millimetres of global sea-level rise<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Central Asia, western Canada <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>United States<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were among the regions recording particularly <\/span><b>severe glacier losses.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>2025 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was <\/span><b>one of the driest years for the world\u2019s rivers in 35 years<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with <\/span><b>normal flows <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recorded across <\/span><b>just 36% of global river basin area.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another<\/span><b> 36% recorded below-normal or much-below-normal flows<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while 21% had above-normal or much-above-normal flows. The remaining 7% was classified as having no data.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The WMO found that the seven years<\/span><b> from 2019 to 2025 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had the<\/span><b> smallest shares of river basins with normal flows since 1991.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Those shares ranged from 34% to 38%, compared with an average of 46% over 1991\u20132020.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Persistent groundwater deficits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were <\/span><b>observed during 2022\u20132025 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in parts of the <\/span><b>Americas, Europe, the Middle East, India, southern Africa and Australia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with over-abstraction identified as an important driver in several regions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Nearly two-thirds of monitored wells<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> worldwide showed conditions outside the historical norm in 2025, and the balance shifted further toward<\/span><b> deficit compared with 2024,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not toward recovery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, <\/span><b>34 percent of groundwater observation stations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reported <\/span><b>below-normal to much-below-normal levels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2025, compared with 25 per cent in 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 31 percent of observation stations reported above-normal to much-above-normal groundwater levels in 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Asia and Africa <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">together accounted for at least <\/span><b>half of all recorded water-related extreme events<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>more than 80% of reported associated deaths<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the <\/span><b>past five years\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>India-Specific Findings:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India recorded <\/span><b>below-normal terrestrial water storage in 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>particularly <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">across the <\/span><b>northern part<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report also found <\/span><b>above- to much-above-normal reservoir inflows across India,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while <\/span><b>soil moisture <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was <\/span><b>above or much above normal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during both the December-February and June-August assessment periods.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among India&#8217;s major river systems, the <\/span><b>Ganges, Godavari, Krishna and Indus <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recorded<\/span><b> above-normal to much-above-normal discharge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the higher river flows did not translate into a broad recovery of India&#8217;s deeper water reserves.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The WMO found <\/span><b>persistent groundwater deficits in India during 2022-2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with widespread below-normal to much-below-normal groundwater levels, particularly in northwestern India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/water\/indias-groundwater-in-persistent-decline-warns-un-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>DTE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Global Water Resources Report is annually published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 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