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This Global Water Scarcity Atlas provides an introduction to water scarcity, and showcases analyses that cover the whole world, based on cutting edge research. Water scarcity means there is not enough water to go around. There is a need to reduce demand or increase supply - or someone loses out.
- Water Stress
Globally, water stress has been increasing over time, mainly...
- Water Shortage
Water is a fundamental resource for life, recognised as a...
- Altered Flows
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- Sharing Water
Related research Sharing of water has been analysed from...
- What should you do
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May 13, 2022 · The reach and intensity of water scarcity across the country and globe will heighten in the coming decades, but in the United States the Great Plains, the Southwest, and the Rocky Mountains have and continue to surmount concern over their ability to provide water to human and environmental needs.
Use the interactive map below to explore water supply data (streamflow, river forecasts, snow water equivalent) alongside drought and climate conditions. Or, view a full-screen version of this map.
- Houston, Texas
- Jackson, Mississippi
- South Texas / Rio Grande Valley
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Las Vegas, New Mexico
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Benton Harbor, Michigan
Officials are warning more than 2 million people in the Houston area to boil their water before using it to cook, bathe and drink after a power outage at a water purification plant caused low water pressure. On Twitter, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city believes the water is safe, but a boil order was issued as a precaution because of th...
Most of the city's 150,000 Jackson residents have been on a boil water notice since July 29 because the state health department found cloudy water that could cause digestive problems. Many were left without any water at all after a major pump at the city’s main treatment facility was damaged in late August. The water crisis was a result of decades-...
The Rio Grande Valley is facing pressure from an ongoing drought and a looming water shortage, so much so that the threat pushed two county judgesto issue disaster declarations in August. But it's not just the Rio Grande Valley. In early August, Gov. Greg Abbott declared and renewedthe disaster status of several counties over the drought. Reservoir...
In November 2021, jet fuel leaked from a storage facility operated by the Navy, contaminating the drinking water of local Honolulu residents and sickening hundreds of families. The Hawaii Department of Health received almost 500 complaints reporting petroleum odors coming from residential tap water supplied by the Navy water system, alongside repor...
The New Mexico city of roughly 13,000 people has been relying on reservoirsthat had less than 50 days worth of stored water when Mayor Louie Trujillo declared the emergency in July. The city's water supply in the Bradner Reservoir had been tainted with large amounts of fire-related debris and ash following the Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire. The lar...
Baltimore residents have been urged to boil tap waterafter E. coli was discovered in several West Baltimore locations, affecting more than 1,500 people. While the health department continues to perform leak detection and leak checks in the region, residents continue to haul water bottles and jugs home, with no insight into how long they'll be witho...
Elevated levels of lead have been detected in the Benton Harbor's water system since at least 2018, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council petition filed in September to the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of local advocacy groups and residents. The replacement of lead-tainted service lines began under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2...
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Oct 6, 2021 · The Atlas uses a robust, peer reviewed methodology and the best-available data to create high-resolution, customizable global maps of water risk. Water scarcity is one of the defining issues of the 21st century.
Mar 3, 2019 · Will the history of water-driven conflict continue or worsen in the Middle East or along the Tunisia-Libya or India-Pakistan borders? Will China’s great thirst spark new conflict beyond its boundaries as it takes water from the Mekong River, which flows through five other nations? Water scarcity may ultimately also limit food production.
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The Water Scarcity Clock is an interactive webtool that visualizes how many people live in water scarcity around the world. This was created by World Data Lab in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
