Water depletion: An improved metric for incorporating seasonal and dry-year water scarcity into water risk assessments
Abstract We present an improved water-scarcity metric we call water depletion, calculated as the fraction of renewable water consumptively used for human activities. We employ new data from the WaterGAP3 integrated global water resources model to illustrate water depletion for 15,091 watersheds worl...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BioOne
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene |
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| Online Access: | http://elementascience.org/article/info:doi/10.12952/journal.elementa.000083 |