Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss

Xander Huggins; Tom Gleeson; Matti Kummu; Samuel C. Zipper; Yoshihide Wada; Tara J. Troy; James S. Famiglietti

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28029-w

Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss

Xander Huggins,
Tom Gleeson,
Matti Kummu,
Samuel C. Zipper,
Yoshihide Wada,
Tara J. Troy,
James S. Famiglietti

Affiliations

Xander Huggins: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
Tom Gleeson: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
Matti Kummu: Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University
Samuel C. Zipper: Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas
Yoshihide Wada: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Tara J. Troy: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
James S. Famiglietti: Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28029-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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This work identifies the world’s most vulnerable basins to social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss: a set of 168 hotspot basins for global prioritization that encompass 1.5 billion people, 17% of global food crops, 13% of global GDP, and hundreds of significant wetlands.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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