Assessing impacts of the water poverty index components on the human development index in Iran

T Ladi, A Mahmoudpour, A Sharifi - Habitat International, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a major issue that many countries, especially developing ones are facing.
Climate change is expected to further exacerbate water scarcity in many parts of the world …

Water crises in a water-rich country: case studies from rural watersheds of Nepal's mid-hills

A Gurung, S Adhikari, R Chauhan, S Thakuri… - Water Policy, 2019 - iwaponline.com
The main objective of this paper is to assess the water crisis in Nepal by conducting a series
of case studies in rural watersheds in the mid-hills. This was achieved through the applied …

[HTML][HTML] Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water

A Pérez-Foguet - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Multidimensional poverty measurements at the international level include the indicator of
having access to safe drinking water within the optimal living standards. At the European …

Unpacking future climate extremes and their sectoral implications in western Nepal

D Chapagain, S Dhaubanjar, L Bharati - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Existing climate projections and impact assessments in Nepal only consider a limited
number of generic climate indices such as means. Few studies have explored climate …

[HTML][HTML] An examination of the mitigation effect of vegetation restoration on regional water poverty: Based on panel data analysis of 9 provinces in the Yellow River …

J Shen, H Zhang, Y Zhao, J Song - Ecological indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation plays an important role in improving the water resource environment. Faced with
the serious water poverty problem in various regions of China, whether vegetation …

Application of water poverty index (WPI) in spatial analysis of water stress in Koshi River Basin, Nepal

S Koirala, Y Fang, NM Dahal, C Zhang, B Pandey… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Water and poverty interface is strongly interconnected and a robust assessment of water
stress is crucial to identify needy areas and develop appropriate intervention for poverty …

Status of springs in mountain watershed of western Nepal

S Adhikari, A Gurung, R Chauhan, D Rijal… - Water Policy, 2021 - iwaponline.com
The study, conducted in western hilly areas of Nepal, inventoried and mapped over 4,222
springs from five different watersheds. The study showed that more than 50% of the spring …

[HTML][HTML] Demographic and socio-economic factors influencing water governance in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

R Gondo, OD Kolawole, JE Mbaiwa… - Scientific African, 2020 - Elsevier
Demographic and socio-economic factors influence water resources governance at the
household level particularly in rural areas of developing countries where culturally assigned …

Domestic water poverty in a semi-arid district of eastern India: Multiple dimensions, regional pattern, and association with human development

T Goswami, S Ghosal - Environmental Development, 2022 - Elsevier
It is widely established in the scholarly world that the actual water scarcity is beyond physical
availability; instead, it is multidimensional and complex. The present study thus attempted to …

The spatiotemporal evolution of socioeconomic drought in the Arid Area of Northwest China based on the Water Poverty Index

J Wang, Z Li, Y Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arid Area of Northwest China (AANC) has the most resource-based water
scarcity in China. It also has engineering-, structural-, and management-based water …