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)...
Here, we focus onphysical water scarcity, which causes greater impacts to ecological systems than economic water scarcity. We begin by outlining the natural and human drivers of physical water scarcity and the hydrologic impacts arising in water-scarce regions. We consider primarily the impacts of ...
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...
CHAPTER 5Agronomical Effects of Def i citIrrigation in Apricot, Peach,and Plum TreesArturo Torrecillas 1 , Mireia Corell 2 , Alejandro Galindo 3 ,David Pérez-López 4 , Houssem Memmi 4,6 , Pedro Rodríguez 5 ,Zulma N. Cruz 5 , Ana Centeno 4 , Diego S. Intrigliolo 1 ,Alfonso Moria...
We mapped the socio-hydrological system of pastoralist–water infrastructures by highlighting the main causes and effects of the system’s variables using CLD. CLDs are graphical representations of a system made of nodes (representing variables in the system) and connections (representing causal influenc...
This study provides a scientific assessment of water scarcity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) city region and investigates its restrictive effects on urban economic development by quantifying economic loss caused by water scarcity based on an input–output optimization model. The results show that ...
Some stressors, such as water scarcity, can be a stressor on its own because of its structural character, and drive the effects of other stressors. The relevance of water scarcity as a stressor is more important in semi-arid regions, such as the Mediterranean basin, which are characterized ...
Infographic describing the causes and effects of water scarcity. Water scarcity is divided into two types. It is likely that water scarcity will become one of the world’s most serious environmental and economic problems; however, there are several possi
The scarcity of water in urban cities is rapidly increasing and is to be further increased by 55% by 2050 [14]. Dhaka has been suffering from water shortages and lack of water resources while water demand continues to grow. In Dhaka, potable water delivers only 75% of the total water ...
Over the past two decades, more than 80 metropolitan cities across the world have faced severe water shortages due to droughts and unsustainable water use. Future projections are even more alarming, since urban water crises are expected to escalate and m