Freshwater scarcity

PH Gleick, H Cooley - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The availability and use of fresh water are critical for human health and for economic and
ecosystem stability. But the growing mismatch between human demands and natural …

Reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa through investments in water and other priorities

MA Hanjra, T Ferede, DG Gutta - Agricultural Water Management, 2009 - Elsevier
Water resources are essential to human development processes and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals that seek, inter alia, to eradicate extreme poverty and …

Laboratory calibration and performance evaluation of low-cost capacitive and very low-cost resistive soil moisture sensors

S Adla, NK Rai, SH Karumanchi, S Tripathi, M Disse… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soil volumetric water content (VWC) is a vital parameter to understand several
ecohydrological and environmental processes. Its cost-effective measurement can …

Application of water poverty index (WPI) in Nepalese context: A case study of Kali Gandaki River Basin (KGRB)

S Manandhar, VP Pandey, F Kazama - Water Resources Management, 2012 - Springer
This article details an application of Water Poverty Index (WPI) to evaluate state of water
resources in the context of Nepalese river basins with a case study of Kali Gandaki River …

[图书][B] Experiences and opportunities for promoting small-scale/micro irrigation and rainwater harvesting for food security in Ethiopia

SB Awulachew, D Merrey, A Kamara, B Van Koppen… - 2005 - books.google.com
Ethiopia is the third most populous country in Africa and is rated the poorest in the world,
ranked last out of 208 countries, with a per capita gross national income of USD 90 in 2003 …

Unveiling the nexus between water scarcity and socioeconomic development in the water-scarce countries

S Redhu, P Jain - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
Ensuring universal access to water is a global goal, closely intertwined with the achievement
of many other sustainable development goals. The increasing global demand for water …

Trend analysis of water poverty index for assessment of water stress and water management polices: a case study in the Hexi Corridor, China

S Huang, Q Feng, Z Lu, X Wen, RC Deo - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
The Hexi Corridor, an important part of the Silk Road Economic Belt, is considered the
poorest, most water scarce, and most ecologically fragile area in China. Establishing …

[HTML][HTML] The use of principal component analysis for the construction of the Water Poverty Index

LD Senna, AG Maia, JDF Medeiros - RBRH, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
In relation to water resources, indexes can be created to express the multiple dimensions
involved with it to aid the planning and management of basins. In this regard, the Water …

Applying the enhanced Water Poverty Index (eWPI) to analyze water scarcity and income poverty relation in Beheshtabad Basin, Iran

R Zare-Bidaki, M Pouyandeh… - Applied Water …, 2023 - Springer
The close relationship between water and poverty has been proven in several types of
research. The Water Poverty Index is an interdisciplinary approach for quantifying the …

Poverty reduction through water interventions: A review of approaches in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia

Z Ahmed, D Gui, Z Qi, Y Liu - Irrigation and Drainage, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water is a key factor in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of poverty
elimination and hunger eradication. The regions of sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) and South …