WDM is an outstanding organisation - independent, clever in its campaigning, meticulous in its research, and angry. Its important work deserves our support.
John Pilger, author and activist
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Pictured: still from the film Flow: for love of water, a WDM-sponsored UK premiere as part of the Take One: Action! festival
Climate change is having a huge impact on freshwater. Extreme weather, including both droughts and floods, is a growing problem which especially impacts on the poor who rely on freshwater rivers and lakes for their livelihoods. And disappearing glaciers mean that a sixth of the world’s population will lose a major water source.
Scotland is contributing to climate change through over-consumption of fossil fuels. It takes just ten days for the average Scottish citizen to produce as much CO2 as the average Bangladeshi will in a whole year.
If action is not taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the world will experience dangerous levels of climate change with disastrous impacts for the world’s poorest people.
Throughout 2008-9, WDM Scotland will be campaigning for Scotland to take a lead in cutting emissions and pushing for effective international action. Read more about our climate change campaign
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