The role of storage capacity in coping with intra- and inter-annual water variability in large river basins

Societies and economies are challenged by variable water supplies. Water storage infrastructure, on a range of scales, can help to mitigate hydrological variability. This study uses a water balance model to investigate how storage capacity can improve water security in the world’s 403 most important...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Franziska Gaupp, Jim Hall, Simon Dadson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125001