Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicators used to characterize and map water scarcity worldwide. We improve upon past efforts by using estimates of blue water footprints (consumptive use of ground- and surface water flows) rather than water withdrawals, accounting for the flows needed to sustain critical ecological functions and by considering monthly rather than annual values. We analyzed 405 river basins for the period 1996–2005. In 201 basins with 2.67 billion inhabitants there was severe water scarcity during at least one month of the year. The ecological and economic consequences of increasing degrees of water scarcity – as evidenced by the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), Indus, and...
Water scarcity adversely affects ecosystems, human well-being and the economy. It can be described b...
© 2018 Dr. Naveen JosephIndia is the second most populous country and the largest freshwater consume...
Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it has d...
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicat...
<div><p>Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of...
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicat...
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicat...
<p>In each month that a river basin is colored in some shade of green, the monthly water scarcity is...
Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarc...
Monthly natural runoff, blue water availability, blue water footprint and blue water scarcity for th...
<p>Net available water – that is natural runoff minus environmental flow requirement – is shown in g...
Presently only 10% of maximum available blue water resources, is used by the three consumptive categ...
Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it has d...
The earth’s freshwater resources are subject to increasing pressure in the form of consumptive water...
Freshwater stems from precipitation over land, which differentiates into a blue water flow (groundwa...
Water scarcity adversely affects ecosystems, human well-being and the economy. It can be described b...
© 2018 Dr. Naveen JosephIndia is the second most populous country and the largest freshwater consume...
Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it has d...
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicat...
<div><p>Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of...
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicat...
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicat...
<p>In each month that a river basin is colored in some shade of green, the monthly water scarcity is...
Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarc...
Monthly natural runoff, blue water availability, blue water footprint and blue water scarcity for th...
<p>Net available water – that is natural runoff minus environmental flow requirement – is shown in g...
Presently only 10% of maximum available blue water resources, is used by the three consumptive categ...
Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it has d...
The earth’s freshwater resources are subject to increasing pressure in the form of consumptive water...
Freshwater stems from precipitation over land, which differentiates into a blue water flow (groundwa...
Water scarcity adversely affects ecosystems, human well-being and the economy. It can be described b...
© 2018 Dr. Naveen JosephIndia is the second most populous country and the largest freshwater consume...
Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it has d...