2007Apr10: The Working Group II report of the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC projects that freshwater availability in Central, South and East and Southeast Asia, particularly in large river basins such as Changjiang, is likely to decrease due to climate change. Population growth and rising standard of living could also adversely affect more than a billion people in Asia by the 2050s (UNEP).
Reference: UNEP. 2007. http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=504&ArticleID=5551&l=en
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