Reassessing the projections of the world water development report

A Boretti, L Rosa - NPJ Clean Water, 2019 - nature.com
The 2018 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report stated that nearly
6 billion peoples will suffer from clean water scarcity by 2050. This is the result of increasing …

Sea-level rise and human migration

ME Hauer, E Fussell, V Mueller, M Burkett… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Anthropogenic sea-level rise (SLR) is predicted to impact, and, in many cases, displace, a
large proportion of the population via inundation and heightened SLR-related hazards. With …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China

C Song, C Fan, J Zhu, J Wang, Y Sheng… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
With rapid population growth and socioeconomic development over the last century, a great
number of dams/reservoirs have been constructed globally to meet various needs. China …

Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam

PSJ Minderhoud, G Erkens, VH Pham… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly
vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the …

Linking rapid erosion of the Mekong River delta to human activities

EJ Anthony, G Brunier, M Besset, M Goichot… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
As international concern for the survival of deltas grows, the Mekong River delta, the world's
third largest delta, densely populated, considered as Southeast Asia's most important food …

Mekong delta much lower than previously assumed in sea-level rise impact assessments

PSJ Minderhoud, L Coumou, G Erkens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Deltas are low-relief landforms that are extremely vulnerable to sea-level rise. Impact
assessments of relative sea-level rise in deltas primarily depend on elevation data accuracy …

A review of the integrated effects of changing climate, land use, and dams on Mekong river hydrology

Y Pokhrel, M Burbano, J Roush, H Kang, V Sridhar… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
The ongoing and proposed construction of large-scale hydropower dams in the Mekong
river basin is a subject of intense debate and growing international concern due to the …

Levees don't protect, they disconnect: A critical review of how artificial levees impact floodplain functions

RL Knox, EE Wohl, RR Morrison - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the recognition of floodplain importance in the scientific community, floodplains are
not afforded the same legal protection as river channels. In the United States alone, flood …

Changes to long-term discharge and sediment loads in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta caused by upstream dams

D Van Binh, S Kantoush, T Sumi - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
The discharge and sediment loads of the Mekong River (MR) have been significantly altered
because of natural processes and anthropogenic activities. We examined the impacts of …

Tidal amplification and salt intrusion in the Mekong Delta driven by anthropogenic sediment starvation

S Eslami, P Hoekstra, N Nguyen Trung… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Natural resources of the Mekong River are essential to livelihood of tens of millions of
people. Previous studies highlighted that upstream hydro-infrastructure developments …