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Deepening water scarcity in breadbasket nations [PDF]

Nature Communications
Water is crucial for meeting sustainability targets, but its unsustainable use threatens human wellbeing and the environment. Past assessments of water scarcity (i.e., water demand in exceedance of availability) have often been spatially coarse and ...
Qinyu Deng, Tyler Sharretts, Tariq Ali, Yufei Zoe Ao, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Betelhem Demeke, Landon Marston, Piyush Mehta, Mesfin Mekonnen, Maria Cristina Rulli, Marta Tuninetti, Wei Xie, Kyle Frankel Davis   +12 more
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Challenges and Solutions for Global Water Scarcity [PDF]

Membranes, 2023
Climate change, global population growth, and rising standards of living have put immense strain on natural resources, resulting in the unsecured availability of water as an existential resource. Access to high-quality drinking water is crucial for daily
Hilla Shemer, Shlomo Wald, Raphael Semiat   +2 more
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A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution [PDF]

Nature Communications
Water security is at stake today. While climate changes influence water availability, urbanization and agricultural activities have led to increasing water demand as well as pollution, limiting safe water use.
Mengru Wang, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Rhodé Rijneveld, Felicitas Beier, Mirjam P. Bak, Masooma Batool, Bram Droppers, Alexander Popp, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Maryna Strokal   +9 more
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Water quality management could halve future water scarcity cost-effectively in the Pearl River Basin [PDF]

Nature Communications
Reducing water scarcity requires both mitigation of the increasing water pollution and adaptation to the changing availability and demand of water resources under global change. However, state-of-the-art water scarcity modeling efforts often ignore water
Safa Baccour, Gerwin Goelema, Taher Kahil, Jose Albiac, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Xueqin Zhu, Maryna Strokal   +6 more
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The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Access to water is crucial for all aspects of life. Anthropogenic global warming is projected to disrupt the hydrological cycle, leading to water scarcity. However, the timing and hotspot regions of unprecedented water scarcity are unknown.
Ravinandrasana VP, Franzke CLE.
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Global overlooked multidimensional water scarcity. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Significance Water scarcity affects billions of people and vast areas. However, different dimensions of water scarcity—blue water (surface-/groundwater), green water (soil moisture), water quality—have not been examined in tandem despite their ...
Liu W, Fu Z, van Vliet MTH, Davis KF, Ciais P, Bao Y, Bai Y, Du T, Kang S, Yin Z, Fang Y, Wada Y.   +11 more
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Four billion people facing severe water scarcity

Science Advances, 2016
Global water scarcity assessment at a high spatial and temporal resolution, accounting for environmental flow requirements. Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk.
Mesfin M Mekonnen, Arjen Hoekstra
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Water scarcity in agriculture: An overview of causes, impacts and approaches for reducing the risks. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Freshwater is a vital resource for both ecosystem health and human survival, and it is the natural resource that is the most extracted at the global level.
Ingrao C, Strippoli R, Lagioia G, Huisingh D.   +3 more
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Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies

Environmental Research Letters, 2021
Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by both water quantity and water quality issues, and quantify expansions in ...
Michelle T H van Vliet, Edward R Jones, Martina Flörke, Wietse H P Franssen, Naota Hanasaki, Yoshihide Wada, John R Yearsley   +6 more
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Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Alleviating water scarcity is at the core of Sustainable Development Goal 6. Yet the timing of water scarcity in its onset and possible relief in different regions of the world due to climate change and changing human population dynamics remains poorly ...
Liu J, Li D, Chen H, Wang H, Wada Y, Kummu M, Gosling SN, Yang H, Pokhrel Y, Ciais P.   +9 more
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