The world is now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that it has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. Now, three out of four people live in countries that face water shortages, water contamination or drought. Yikes.

Reuters reports that many regions across the world are afflicted by severe water problems: Kabul may be on course to be the first modern city to run out of water. Mexico City is sinking at a rate of around 20 inches a year as the vast aquifer beneath its streets is over-pumped. And in the American Southwest, states are locked in a continual battle over how to share the shrinking water of the drought-stricken Colorado River.

Further signs of this emergency are bleak, alarming and abundant, said lead author Kaveh Madani, director of the UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health. More than half of the world’s large lakes are shrinking. Roughly 70% of underground aquifers are in long-term decline. Large-scale droughts have become more frequent and pervasive, costing an average of $307 billion annually. Some 4.4 billion people face water scarcity for at least one month a year. Madani and his colleagues argue that it’s not sufficient to refer to the situation as “water stress” or a “water crisis”—language often used by the U.N. and other international institutions—because the challenge will not go away anytime soon.

The Conversation examined what water bankruptcy looks like in real life. “In financial bankruptcy, the first warning signs often feel manageable: late payments, borrowed money and selling things you hoped to keep. Then the spiral tightens. Water bankruptcy has similar stages.” At first, we pull a little more groundwater during dry years. We use bigger pumps and deeper wells. We transfer water from one basin to another. We drain wetlands and straighten rivers to make space for farms and cities. Then the hidden costs show up. Lakes shrink year after year. Wells need to go deeper. Rivers that once flowed year-round turn seasonal. Salty water creeps into aquifers near the coast. The ground itself starts to sink. Almost 700 sinkholes have appeared in Turkey due to groundwater pumping, while dust storms from desertification have killed hundreds in Beijing.

The findings are alarming, but recognizing water bankruptcy can help countries move from short term emergency thinking to long-term strategies to reduce irreversible damage. The report calls for a series of actions, including transforming farming—by far the biggest global user of water—through shifting crops and more efficient irrigation; better water monitoring using AI and remote sensing; reducing pollution; and increasing protection for wetlands and groundwater.

The FBI briefly opened a civil rights probe into the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis before shifting to whether the agent was assaulted, two sources told CNN. But the focus seems to now be on the conduct of Good and those around her, including her widow, they said. The family’s attorney says an investigation is needed to find out what happened.

The Department of Justice is appealing a judge’s order restricting how federal agents respond to Minnesota protesters. And those protesters opposing ICE’s mass deportation operations are increasingly turning to data leaks and homegrown surveillance tools. According to Axios, the “latest wave of U.S.-based hacktivism—where hackers launch attacks to make a political statement, rather than to make money or steal state secrets—reflects a more strategic, cohesive embrace of digital tools.” Someone leaked a trove of sensitive information about approximately 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees, including 2,000 frontline enforcement agents, to the site ICE List last week.

This form of strategic hacktivism has been more common overseas in recent years, particularly during uprisings, invasions and geopolitical conflicts. And IRL, some protesters also interrupted church services in Minnesota, leading to tense confrontations about pastor David Easterwood and his role with the ICE operation that has dragged people from their cars, stopped U.S. citizens, broken down doors and shot two people, killing one.

A day after telling the media that the U.S. can “no longer think purely of peace”, President Trump has signed on more than 10 countries to join his new “Board of Peace” for Gaza, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News. Though only five—United Arab Emirates, Belarus, Morocco, Hungary and Canada—have publicly accepted his invitation to join.

As the president envisions it, the group “might” replace the United Nations and is meant to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza. He would indefinitely chair the board as it attempts to supersede the U.N. (which was established 80 years ago to maintain global peace). Countries can contribute $1 billion to become permanent members, rather than holding a typical three-year membership, the White House said, although Canada has said it won’t pay to join. Israel said it was asked, while France is holding off on accepting for now.

Russia is among the nations invited to join—raising alarm about how a country actively waging war could be involved in an effort to secure peace. China and Belarus have also been invited. The U.S. is expected to announce its official list of members in the coming days, likely during the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Board members will oversee an executive committee that will be in charge of implementing the tough second phase of the Gaza peace plan that includes the deployment of an international security force, disarmament of Hamas and reconstruction of the war-devastated territory.