Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Globalization has led to an increasing geospatial separation of production and consumption,
and, as a consequence, to an unprecedented displacement of environmental and social …

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 …

Water scarcity is dynamic and complex, emerging from the combined influences of climate
change, basin-level water resources, and managed systems' adaptive capacities. Beyond …

International trade separates consumption of goods from related environmental impacts,
including greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change (together …

Inadequate water quality can mean that water is unsuitable for a variety of human uses, thus
exacerbating freshwater scarcity. Previous large-scale water scarcity assessments mostly …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Abstract The United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with
169 targets. International trade has substantial influences on global sustainability and …

Recent hydrological modelling and Earth observations, have located and quantified
alarming rates of groundwater depletion worldwide. This depletion is primarily due to water …

Drylands, a critical terrestrial system of the Earth due to low water availability, are known for
their extensive global reach, estimated by most scientific sources at approximately 41% of …