Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat
to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research …

Metrics of water scarcity and stress have evolved over the last three decades from simple
threshold indicators to holistic measures characterising human environments and freshwater …

Water security is at stake today. While climate changes influence water availability,
urbanization and agricultural activities have led to increasing water demand as well as …

Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied
from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by …

Water scarcity, a critical environmental issue worldwide, has primarily been driven by a
significant increase in water extractions during the last century. In the coming decades …

Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it
has developed over time. This study provides a first assessment of continuous sub-national …

Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global
water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated …

Water scarcity is rapidly increasing in many regions. In a novel, multi-model assessment, we
examine how human interventions (HI: land use and land cover change, man-made …

To sustain growing food demand and increasing standard of living, global water use
increased by nearly 6 times during the last 100 years, and continues to grow. As water …

Reducing food losses and waste is considered to be one of the most promising measures to
improve food security in the coming decades. Food losses also affect our use of resources …