Some 739 million children worldwide – or one in three - already live in areas exposed to high or very high water scarcity, with climate change threatening to push that alarming figure higher, according to a new UNICEF report.

A young girl sits outside her family tent in at a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu. UNICEF/Mark Condren
A young girl sits outside her family tent in at a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu. UNICEF/Mark Condren

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