Global water resources: vulnerability from climate change and population growth.

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Summary

Numerical experiments combining climate model outputs, water budgets, and socioeconomic information along digitized river networks demonstrate that (i) a large proportion of the world's population is currently experiencing water stress and (ii) rising water demands greatly outweigh greenhouse warming in defining the state of global water systems to 2025.

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Published
2000-07-14
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Keywords

Climate change, Vulnerability (computing), Water supply, Environmental science, Global warming

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