Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Evaluating the economic impact of water scarcity in a changing world

  • Flannery Dolan,
  • Jonathan Lamontagne,
  • Robert Link,
  • Mohamad Hejazi,
  • Patrick Reed,
  • Jae Edmonds

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22194-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The impacts of water scarcity depend on physical basin characteristics and global economic dynamics. Here, the authors show scenario assumptions can yield either highly positive or negative economic impacts due to water scarcity, and the drivers of these impacts are basin-specific and cannot be determined a priori.