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The city of Al Hoceima, in northern Morocco, on the Mediterranean coast, May 31, 2017 (illustration image). Reuters / Youssef Boudlal

The MedEcc, a network of more than 600 scientists from Mediterranean countries, made public this Thursday, October 10, in Barcelona, ​​a report alerting on the catastrophic consequences of global warming for the Mediterranean countries. A region of the world where live more than 500 million people.

The conclusions of the MedEcc report are alarming and all indicate that the Mediterranean is indeed one of the regions most affected by climate change. A region where more than 500 million people live.

Since the pre-industrial era, scientists say it has warmed 20% faster than the rest of the world and is expected to increase by 2 degrees by 2040.

This rise in temperature should also be accompanied by a reduction in rainfall in the coming decades: less than 30% in the Balkans or Turkey, for example.

And as if that were not enough, scientists are also predicting an increase in torrential rain events.

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But global warming associated with reduced rainfall poses another problem: that of fresh water .

How to give everyone drink while the reserves fall and at the same time the population continues to increase? The worst predictions say that in 20 years, more than 250 million people will be "poor in water".

Another disaster announced by scientists: harvests already threatened by soil depletion or the fishery victim of overexploitation and the disappearance of species due to the warming of the sea.

With such a list of announced calamities, how not to dread the next report, which should be published in 2020?