Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

J Liu, H Yang, SN Gosling, M Kummu, M Flörke… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat
to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research …

Satellite remote sensing for water resources management: Potential for supporting sustainable development in data‐poor regions

J Sheffield, EF Wood, M Pan, H Beck… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water resources management (WRM) for sustainable development presents many
challenges in areas with sparse in situ monitoring networks. The exponential growth of …

The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability

Z Huang, X Yuan, X Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity has become a major issue to sustainable development. It can be estimated by
available fresh water resources and human water withdrawal, which are affected by both …

[HTML][HTML] The world's road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability

M Kummu, JHA Guillaume, H de Moel, S Eisner… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it
has developed over time. This study provides a first assessment of continuous sub-national …

Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources

D Viviroli, M Kummu, M Meybeck, M Kallio… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain areas provide disproportionally high runoff in many parts of the world, but their
importance for water resources and food production has not been clarified from the …

Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

TIE Veldkamp, Y Wada, J Aerts, P Döll… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Water scarcity is rapidly increasing in many regions. In a novel, multi-model assessment, we
examine how human interventions (HI: land use and land cover change, man-made …

Increased food production and reduced water use through optimized crop distribution

KF Davis, MC Rulli, A Seveso, P D'Odorico - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Growing demand for agricultural commodities for food, fuel and other uses is expected to be
met through an intensification of production on lands that are currently under cultivation …

[HTML][HTML] Physical water scarcity metrics for monitoring progress towards SDG target 6.4: An evaluation of indicator 6.4. 2 “Level of water stress”

D Vanham, AY Hoekstra, Y Wada, F Bouraoui… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Target 6.4 of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deals with the
reduction of water scarcity. To monitor progress towards this target, two indicators are used …

Hybrid renewable energy systems for desalination

F Esmaeilion - Applied Water Science, 2020 - Springer
Water and energy are two key factors in human life that always control the growth and
development of human societies. Climate changes, increasing the population in urban areas …

Water scarcity in the Yellow River Basin under future climate change and human activities

A Omer, NA Elagib, M Zhuguo, F Saleem… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Under global climate change and pressure from human activities, water scarcity is becoming
a major concern in the quest for regional sustainable development in the Yellow River Basin …