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,Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra,Yoshihide Wada,Fayçal Bouraoui,A. De Roo,Mesfin Mekonnen,W. van de Bund,Okke Batelaan,Paul Pavelic,Wim G.M. Bastiaanssen,Matti Kummu,Johan Rockström,Junguo Liu,Berny Bisselink,Paolo Ronco,Alberto Pistocchi,Giovanni Bidoglio +16 more
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It is recommended that WS is measured based on net abstraction as well, in addition to currently only measuring WS based on gross abstraction, because it does incorporate EFR and Temporal and spatial disaggregation is indeed defined as a goal in more advanced monitoring levels.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2018-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Physical water scarcity & Water resources.read more
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The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook.
Edward R. Jones,Edward R. Jones,Manzoor Qadir,Michelle T. H. van Vliet,Vladimir Smakhtin,Seong Mu Kang,Seong Mu Kang +6 more
TL;DR: Improved brine management strategies are required to limit the negative environmental impacts and reduce the economic cost of disposal, thereby stimulating further developments in desalination facilities to safeguard water supplies for current and future generations.
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Global agricultural economic water scarcity
Lorenzo Rosa,Davide Danilo Chiarelli,Maria Cristina Rulli,Jampel Dell'Angelo,Jampel Dell'Angelo,Paolo D'Odorico +5 more
TL;DR: A monthly agrohydrological analysis is developed to map agricultural regions affected by agricultural economic water scarcity, finding these regions account for up to 25% of the global croplands, mostly across Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
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Pollution exacerbates China's water scarcity and its regional inequality.
Ting Ma,Siao Sun,Guangtao Fu,Jim W. Hall,Yong Ni,Lihuan He,Jiawei Yi,Na Zhao,Yunyan Du,Tao Pei,Tao Pei,Weiming Cheng,Ci Song,Chuanglin Fang,Chenghu Zhou +14 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive nationwide water scarcity assessment in China is reported, which explicitly includes quality requirements for human water uses and shows that inadequate water quality exacerbates China’s water scarcity, which is unevenly distributed across the country.
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Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs
D. Vanham,Adrian Leip,Alessandro Galli,Thomas Kastner,Martin Bruckner,Aimable Uwizeye,Kimo van Dijk,Ertug Ercin,Carole Dalin,Miguel Brandão,Simone Bastianoni,Kai Fang,Allison M. Leach,Ashok Chapagain,Marijn van der Velde,Serenella Sala,Rana Pant,Lucia Mancini,Fabio Monforti-Ferrario,Gema Carmona-Garcia,Alexandra Marques,Franz Weiss,Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra +22 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the footprint family is a flexible framework where particular members can be included or excluded according to the context or area of concern, and delivers on measuring progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections
Peter Greve,Taher Kahil,Junko Mochizuki,Thomas Schinko,Yusuke Satoh,Peter Burek,Günther Fischer,Sylvia Tramberend,R. Burtscher,Simon J. Langan,Yoshihide Wada +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a probabilistic approach to assess global water scarcity projections following feasible combinations of shared socioeconomic pathways and representative concentration pathways for the first half of the twenty-first century and identify changes in the uncertainty range of anticipated water scarcity conditions.
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