South Korea is grappling with an escalating water crisis in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, where President Lee Jae Myung declared a “state of national disaster” over the weekend after drought pushed the region’s main reservoir to unprecedented lows.

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1. South Korea is grappling with an escalating water crisis in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, where President Lee Jae Myung declared a “state of national disaster” over the weekend after drought pushed the region’s main reservoir to unprecedented lows.

   On Sunday, the Obong Reservoir, which supplies nearly 87 percent of the city’s household water, fell below the 15 percent storage threshold widely regarded as the minimum for potable supply, making further distribution nearly impossible.

   By 7:40 a.m. on Sunday, storage had dropped to 14.9 percent, down 0.4 percentage point from the previous day. With levels slipping past the critical line, the city government began shutting off 75 percent of household meters and halted the supply of agricultural water.

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