Predictions of floods, droughts, and fast drought‐flood transitions are required at different
time scales to develop management strategies targeted at minimizing negative societal and …

Drought prediction is of critical importance to early warning for drought managements. This
review provides a synthesis of drought prediction based on statistical, dynamical, and hybrid …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030
represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable …

The expansion of reservoirs to cope with droughts and water shortages is hotly debated in
many places around the world. We argue that there are two counterintuitive dynamics that …

With rapid population growth and socioeconomic development over the last century, a great
number of dams/reservoirs have been constructed globally to meet various needs. China …

Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods
and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle. To better design disaster risk …

Climate change introduces substantial uncertainty to water resources planning and raises
the key question: when, or under what conditions, should adaptation occur? A number of …

Water scarcity is a highly complex, multifaceted and dynamic issue, which has become a
severe global challenge. Water scarcity is a hyperconnected phenomenon and thus should …

Over recent decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human
activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes to an unprecedented extent. The phenomenal …