The Future of the Environment | UCI

Water Shortages and Surplus: Global shortages in clean water will be a growing concern in decades to come and the UCI School of Physical Sciences is spearheading groundbreaking research in desalination to deliver potable water for the nearly one billion people worldwide that need it most. Our planet also has imminent challenges with excess water as Antarctic glaciers slide ever more quickly into a warming sea. Our glaciologists are renowned for measuring the rate at which ice sheets are melting globally and how this will affect sea levels. Coastal communities all over the world will be damaged by rising sea levels, and our experts are working on a warning system.