water Article Water: Drought, Crisis and Governance in Australia and Brazil Wilson Sousa Júnior 1,*, Claudia Baldwin 2, Jeff Camkin 3, Pedro Fidelman 2, Osman Silva 4, Susana Neto 5,6 and Timothy F. Smith 2 1 Department of Water Resources, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, São ...
Projections of future water demand and drought show an alarming risk of water crisis for many, if not most, cities across the world38. The management of urban water systems thus represents one of the most compelling and serious challenges society must address. Current policies aimed at tackling ...
Current and future global water scarcity intensifies when accounting for surface water quality Article23 May 2024 Introduction The World Economic Forum 2020 has ranked the water crisis as the paramount social risk of this decade1. Managing water resources is the core pillar for addressing the most u...
Similarly, water scarcity has nowhit a crisis point in northern Syria, due to a combination of rising temperatures and decreased levels of precipitation, per Al Jazeera. The area now depends solely on the Euphrates river, which has fallen to critically low levels.More than five million peoplerel...
that increasingly frequent, widespread and intense droughts and floods were linked more strongly to higher global temperatures than to naturally changing weather patterns, like El Niño and La Niña. This suggests these intense events will increase as the climate crisis accelerates, the...
Jonathan Amarilio is joined by Corey Stern, lead counsel for the plaintiffs injured in the Flint, Michigan water crisis. Corey discusses the origins of the water crisis, the role citizen advocates played in seeking government accountability, and how he b
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Severe weather events Water and climate change are inextricably linked. As the United Nations reports: “Climate change is primarily a water crisis. We feel its impacts through worsening floods, rising sea levels, shrinking ice fields, wildfires, and droughts.” Between 2001 and 2018, three quarte...
‘Understanding of water resilience in the Anthropocene’, where the authors highlight that the capacity of SES to deal with uncertainties, adapt to changing conditions, and transform in situations of crisis are fundamentally dependent on the functions of water. Deriving inspiration from broader ...
research, including public health aspects, sustainable management, technology development and implementation, and environmental, social and technical challenges. We welcome submissions of articles that can help further our understanding and/or offer solutions to best address the global sanitation crisis. ...