More than half of the world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, according to new research on how water patterns are undergoing dramatic shifts in urban areas as climate change intensifies the atmospheric effects.
The academic study involving Bristol and Cardiff universities, on behalf of aid group WaterAid, found that 52 per cent of cities showed a wetter trend over the past four decades, including Colombo, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.
At the same time, some 44 per cent of urban centres were getting drier, including Los Angeles, Riyadh, Paris and Cairo.
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