Water has always influenced where we live. Today, as climate change accelerates the global
water crisis, the relentless increase in the movement of people around the world requires a considered response to turn crisis into opportunity.

What makes us move
There are more than 1 billion migrants in the world today – and water deficits are linked to 10% of the rise in global migration. The World Bank’s just-released flagship publication on water shows that it is a lack of water, rather than too much, that has a greater impact on migration.
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