Our climate and environment impact and are impacted by water. Find out how you can reduce your impact on all three.
Climate change happens when we alter our surrounding environment and our natural world. Climate change, in turn, can have a direct impact on water resources, through, for example, causing droughts to become more extreme and rain events to become more intense. Find out how your water resources can be impacted and what you can do about it.
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