Global monthly water stress: 2. Water demand and severity of water stress

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Wada, Yoshihide ^a   Van Beek, L P H ^a   Viviroli, Daniel ^b   Drr, Hans H ^a   Weingartner, Rolf ^b   Bierkens, Marc F P ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT; BLUE WATER; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DENSELY POPULATED REGIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG TERM RECORDS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER SCARCITY; WATER SHORTAGES; WATER STRESS;

TIME SERIES;

WATER SUPPLY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE VARIATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; VOLUME; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STRESS;

CHINA; INDIA; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79751472835     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009792     Document Type: Article

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