Inundated!

A study has claimed that, although some 72 million people where globally endangered by flooding in 2010, the number will rise to some 147 million by 2030 (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/23/flooding-double-number-people-worldwide-2030). This doubling can be directly linked to climate change and will influence populations living by rivers and in coastal regions. As well as the direct risk to life, flooding is very destructive in terms of its effects on buildings, transport, food production and disease control. Of course, in other parts of the globe, people might well experience shortages of water (climate change involves major disturbances of weather patterns).