Though roughly three-quarters of Earth is covered by water, less than 1% of it is fresh and freely available for drinking and agriculture.
Given growing pressures on this essential resource, Yale has committed to reducing its water usage through careful conservation measures and landscape management plans.
The university is home to a vibrant research community investigating a range of water-related issues, from the role of water in the global carbon cycle to how future droughts may affect food shortages and even methods for extracting rare earth metals from ocean water.
