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Global overlooked multidimensional water scarcity. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ASignificance 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 ...
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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.
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Hydrological sciences and water security: An overview [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2015 This paper provides an introduction to the concepts of water security including not only the risks to human wellbeing posed by floods and droughts, but also the threats of inadequate supply of water in both quantity and quality for food production, human
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Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions
Nature Communications, 2021 Urbanization and climate change are together exacerbating water scarcity—where water demand exceeds availability—for the world’s cities. We quantify global urban water scarcity in 2016 and 2050 under four socioeconomic and climate change scenarios, and ...
Chunyang He +6 more
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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict.
Kerstin Unfried +2 more
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Solutions to agricultural green water scarcity under climate change. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus, 2023 Rain-fed agricultural systems, which solely depend on green water (i.e. soil moisture from rainfall), sustain ∼60% of global food production and are particularly vulnerable to vagaries in temperature and precipitation patterns, which are intensifying due
He L, Rosa L.
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Water scarcity risk through trade of the Yellow River Basin in China
Ecological Indicators, 2023 Water scarcity poses economic risks and affects the quality of national and regional development. The risk of local water scarcity can be conveyed to downstream economies through interregional trade for potential economic losses.
Jingxue Wei +3 more
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Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity. [PDF]
Nat CommunAlleviating 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 ...
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Water scarcity: The changing California water scene
California Agriculture, 1991 California Agriculture - All ...
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Solar stills: A review for water scarcity solutions. [PDF]
HeliyonSolar stills represent a crucial technology in the quest to provide clean and accessible water, particularly in regions facing water scarcity and limited energy resources.
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