A very small blue marble: Stunning image reveals all the Earth’s water would form a sphere just 860 miles wide (Daily Mail)

IFPRI Deputy Division Director for EPTD Claudia Ringler‘s research was cited by the Daily Mail in an article about water insecurity. Reporter Stacy Liberatore wrote an article on the state of the Earth’s water and found that only 2.5% of the planet’s water is drinkable. She cited Ringer’s work on the dangers of water stress and its effects on people and the global economy: “The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that 4.8 billion people–more than half the world’s population–and approximately half of global grain production will be at risk due to water stress by 2050 if status quo, business-as-usual behavior is followed. The IFPRI study also found that 45% of total GDP ($63 trillion) will be at risk due to water stress by 2050, which is 1.5 times the size of today’s entire global economy.