Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a study from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), with Professor Francesca Pellicciotti from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) participating.
This publicly available 40-year global quantitative inventory, now published in Science, seeks to inform policy regarding the environmental impact of human-induced climate change. It also detected previously ‘overlooked’ events.
![Kabonga Drinking Water Shortage, [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From journalist Willy Kwizera at the Blue Community Radio Bonesha FM Burundi:
BURUNDI-NYANZA](https://blue-community.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ntamazi-300x168-2-414x224.jpg "Kabonga Drinking Water Shortage 3")
