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Water Supply and Water Scarcity [PDF]
Water, 2020 This paper provides an overview of the Special Issue on water supply and water scarcity. The papers selected for publication include review papers on water history, on water management issues under water scarcity regimes, on rainwater harvesting, on water quality and degradation, and on climatic variability impacts on water resources.
Vasileios A. Tzanakakis +2 more
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Deepening water scarcity in breadbasket nations [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsWater 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 +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 +2 more
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A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsWater 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 +9 more
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Water quality management could halve future water scarcity cost-effectively in the Pearl River Basin [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsReducing 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 +6 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 +6 more
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WaterWater scarcity poses significant challenges in arid regions like the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) due to constant population growth, considering the effects of climate change and water management aspects.
Mohammad Al-Addous +6 more
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Indicator metrics and temporal aggregations introduce ambiguities in water scarcity estimates [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWater scarcity is a global challenge affecting billions of people worldwide. This study systematically assesses differences in the estimation of the global population exposed to water scarcity based on 7 water scarcity indicators and 11 Environmental ...
Fitsume T. Wolkeba +3 more
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Pollution exacerbates China’s water scarcity and its regional inequality
Nature Communications, 2020 The impact on inadequate water quality on water scarcity is unclear. Here the authors quantify China’s present-day water scarcity and show that inadequate water quality exacerbates China’s water scarcity, which is unevenly distributed across the country.
Ting Ma +13 more
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The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene. [PDF]
Nat CommunAccess 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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