Water scarcity occurs when there are insufficient freshwater resources to meet the human and environmental demands of a certain area. Given the challenges of population growth, profligate use, growing pollution, and global warming, many countries and maj
Ironically, a boost in storage capacity during the 1980s coincided with a drop in average annual precipitation, as illustrated in Figure 2. In the Middle East, where the economies are more buoyant, desalination of sea water is seen as the answer to water scarcity. In Europe, Spain is the ...
Unlimited access to clean, safe water is taken for granted in many places, but water scarcity is a growing concern worldwide. Overuse, increasing demand, pollution, poor management, lack of infrastructure, and changes in weather patterns due to global warming are key stressors that affect the ...
Mobility (that is, seasonal movements of pastoralists and their herd11) is the traditional strategy of pastoralists in drylands around the globe to cope with climate variability and water and pasture scarcity12,13. Yet it is not to be considered as a mere drought coping mechanism but a whole...
This global water demand or scarcity is caused by climate change and poor management strategies [3,4]. Another cause is the unstoppable growth of the world’s population, the urbanisation of new territories and increasing industrialisation [5,6,7]. In general, water is an irreplaceable and ...
The highly unequal metropolitan area of Cape Town serves as a case in point to illustrate how unsustainable water use by the elite can exacerbate urban water crises at least as much as climate change or population growth.Similar content being viewed by others Future global urban water scarcity ...
The Water Scarcity Problem The rapid growth in global population is putting increasing pressure on existingwater resourcessuch that the global demand for water is predicted to outstrip supply by 40% in 2050. At the same time, a changing climate is shifting the availability of water resources acro...
Still, current estimates of groundwater storage and fluxes are highly uncertain due to data scarcity and model uncertainty, and have been continuously revised over the past decades (Abbott et al., 2019). For example, estimates of the global volume of fresh groundwater storage vary broadly from ...
When asked, interviewees suspected that some people were unable to connect drought/climate change to scarcity in water supply despite growing public awareness on climate awareness: “I do think that people understand that there is a link between climate change, and how water reacts to climate ...
Cutting edge research of the kind undertaken at J-WAFS is a key part of the longer term solution. But in the shorter term, the challenges around water scarcity remain a day-to-day fact of life for billions of people in developing countries around the world. ...