The effects of climate change have also started to be noticeable on the world’s water bodies, an alarming report of the World Meteorological Organization has come out.

According to the report, 2025 was among the driest years for rivers in the last 35 years, while 36 percent of the world’s river basins recorded less than normal water flow.

According to the World Meteorological Organization, fresh water reserves are rapidly decreasing due to melting of glaciers, lowering of groundwater levels, severe droughts and floods.

The report states that since the mid-2010s, the world’s total water reserves have been continuously decreasing.

In 2025, for the fourth year in a row, all of the world’s major glacier areas recorded an overall decrease in ice storage, with 408 gigatons of ice melting from glaciers in just one year, resulting in a rise in sea levels of about 1.1 mm.

According to the report, between 2023 and 2025, about 1400 gigatons of ice melted from the glaciers.

The World Meteorological Organization says that the world is using up its water reserves rapidly.

On the other hand, recent scientific research has identified climate change as a result of human activities as one of the major causes of catastrophic floods on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

According to research published in World Weather Attribution, human-induced climate change and several geological factors in the Nepal-Tibet border region contributed to the glacier’s eruption.

According to the research, due to the effects of human activities, the temperature of July and August in the region remained 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than normal.

The melting of glaciers due to increase in temperature has seriously destabilized the mountain slopes.