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

Water scarcity is rapidly increasing in many regions. In a novel, multi-model assessment, we examine how human interventions (HI: land use and land cover change, man-made reservoirs and human water use) affected monthly river water availability and water scarcity over the period 1971–2010. Here we s...

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Main Authors: Veldkamp, T.I.E., Wada, Y., Aerts, J.C.J.H., Döll, P., Gosling, Simon N., Liu, J., Masaki, Y., Oki, T., Ostberg, S., Pokhrel, Y., Satoh, Y., Kim, H., Ward, P.J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43615/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43615/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43615/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43615/1/Veldkamp_etal_2017.pdf