A pilot global assessment of environmental water requirements and scarcity

Water International

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 307-317

  Smakhtin, Vladimir ^a   Revenga, Carmen ^b   Döll, Petra ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental water requirements; Flow variability; Global hydrology; Water scarcity; Water use model

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544304439     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060408691785     Document Type: Article

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