Exploring Water Scarcity and its Effects on Indigenous Communities in Quetta, BalochistanBaig, Urooba JaffarMagsi, Hussan AraZada, HammadKhan, Rizwan UllahUllah, JawadAli Khan, Muhammad ZeeshanInternational Journal of Social Science Archives (IJSSA)...
The Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region (hereafter SEMED) has been a focal area in the discussion on water scarcity and its impact on food security. This is not only because the region overall is poor in water resources and many countries are importing a large portion of food to meet ...
while contemporary “bucket” designers mainly rely on concrete and steel. The concurrent emissions of greenhouse gases exacerbate global warming and its impacts on the water cycle
We calculate both physical water scarcity (Fig. 1B) and its economic impact (Fig. 1C) over the 21st century for 235 river basins for each of the 3000 global change scenarios, simulated using the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) integrated assessment model36. With the effects of inter-...
when competition between sectoral water uses intensifies, agriculture is the most vulnerable sector to water scarcity42,43,44. However, due to its high water use volume and intensity, the potential for agricultural water conservation is also high. Therefore, one of the keys for addressing water ...
The effects of water scarcity can be grouped into these four broad areas — Health, Hunger, Education, and Poverty. Health In many developing countries, people have no option but to drink low-quality water from flowing streams, many of which are contaminated. There are many water-borne disease...
Water scarcitymay seem to be a problem of local water availability. However, its drivers are often global in nature due to globalization as several economic sectors, such asagriculture, energy, and transportation, rely heavily on reliablewater supplyfor their commodities to be traded and consumed ...
national hydrological model to quantify sub-basin-level river depletion, finding high-to-severe levels of irrigation scarcity in 30% of sub-basins in the western United States, with cattle-feed crops—alfalfa and other hay—being the largest water consumers in 57% of the region’s sub-basins....
2021). The full range of difficulties, resulting from water scarcity in the short and long terms, will have heavy impacts on many countries worldwide, politically, socially, financially, and economically (Yihdego et al. 2019)—and these may lead in some regions, to military confrontations. ...
Sustainable development, water resources management and women's empowerment: the Wanaraniya Water Project in Sri Lanka Water is one of the most important natural resources, and its effective management is essential given its scarcity. In rural Sri Lanka, the management of a... Seela Aladuwaka* ...