Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

Water scarcity threatens a growing number of global catchments. Here, the authors examine how human interventions (HI) affected water scarcity between 1971 and 2010 and find that HI caused increases in the average duration and occurrence of water scarcity for 32% and 34% of the global population, re...

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Main Authors: T.I.E. Veldkamp, Y. Wada, J.C.J.H. Aerts, P. Döll, S. N. Gosling, J. Liu, Y. Masaki, T. Oki, S. Ostberg, Y. Pokhrel, Y. Satoh, H. Kim, P. J. Ward
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c0dc708d8079430b97741f1f84c371a9
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