PARIS — Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.

"Nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world's food production are now in areas where total water storage is projected to decline," said the report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW).

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