Our relationship with water has been thrown fatally off balance in many parts of the world this year. More than 600 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in decades this month. The floods that claimed 1,719 lives and engulfed a third of Pakistan are now estimated to have left the country with €40 billion in damages. While Europe’s summer of drought is reported to be the worst in 500 years. As we seek to arrest the emissions that are wreaking havoc with water cycles, urgent action is also needed on adaptation on our blue planet. China’s twin water crises In China, one of the world’s fastes…