Four billion people facing severe water scarcity. Mekonnen, M. M. & Hoekstra, A. Y. Science Advances, 2(2):e1500323, February, 2016. ![Four billion people facing severe water scarcity [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated experienced water scarcity by failing to capture the seasonal fluctuations in water consumption and availability. We assess blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly basis. We find that two-thirds of the global population (4.0 billion people) live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least 1 month of the year. Nearly half of those people live in India and China. Half a billion people in the world face severe water scarcity all year round. Putting caps to water consumption by river basin, increasing water-use efficiencies, and better sharing of the limited freshwater resources will be key in reducing the threat posed by water scarcity on biodiversity and human welfare. Global water scarcity assessment at a high spatial and temporal resolution, accounting for environmental flow requirements. Global water scarcity assessment at a high spatial and temporal resolution, accounting for environmental flow requirements.
@article{mekonnen_four_2016,
title = {Four billion people facing severe water scarcity},
volume = {2},
copyright = {Copyright © 2016, The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.},
issn = {2375-2548},
url = {https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1500323},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.1500323},
abstract = {Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated experienced water scarcity by failing to capture the seasonal fluctuations in water consumption and availability. We assess blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly basis. We find that two-thirds of the global population (4.0 billion people) live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least 1 month of the year. Nearly half of those people live in India and China. Half a billion people in the world face severe water scarcity all year round. Putting caps to water consumption by river basin, increasing water-use efficiencies, and better sharing of the limited freshwater resources will be key in reducing the threat posed by water scarcity on biodiversity and human welfare.
Global water scarcity assessment at a high spatial and temporal resolution, accounting for environmental flow requirements.
Global water scarcity assessment at a high spatial and temporal resolution, accounting for environmental flow requirements.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2019-12-09},
journal = {Science Advances},
author = {Mekonnen, Mesfin M. and Hoekstra, Arjen Y.},
month = feb,
year = {2016},
pages = {e1500323},
}
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