Is physical water scarcity a new phenomenon? Global assessment of water shortage over the last two millennia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kummu, Matti ^a   Ward, Philip J ^b   De Moel, Hans ^b   Varis, Olli ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global change; Global water resources; Late Holocene; Palaeo water availability; Population growth; Water scarcity; Water shortage; Water stress

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; GROUNDWATER; POPULATION STATISTICS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER RESOURCES;

GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES; LATE HOLOCENE; POPULATION GROWTH; WATER SCARCITY; WATER SHORTAGES; WATER STRESS;

WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77958537985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034006     Document Type: Article

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