A fourteen-year-old report mobilized a number of water stakeholders but, taken out of context, its results also led to a misunderstanding of the water crisis and its solutions.
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Boccaletti, G. Framing water problems with global statistics is both powerful and misleading. Nat Water 1, 660–661 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00115-3
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