The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook

E Jones, M Qadir, MTH van Vliet, V Smakhtin… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rising water demands and diminishing water supplies are exacerbating water scarcity in
most world regions. Conventional approaches relying on rainfall and river runoff in water …

Understanding responses to climate-related water scarcity in Africa

W Leal Filho, E Totin, JA Franke, SM Andrew… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a global challenge, yet existing responses are failing to cope with current
shocks and stressors, including those attributable to climate change. In sub-Saharan Africa …

Sustainalism: An integrated socio-economic-environmental model to address sustainable development and sustainability

NP Hariram, KB Mekha, V Suganthan, K Sudhakar - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper delves into the multifaceted concept of sustainability, covering its evolution, laws,
principles, as well as the different domains and challenges related to achieving it in the …

Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies

MTH Van Vliet, ER Jones, M Flörke… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied
from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by …

Pollution exacerbates China's water scarcity and its regional inequality

T Ma, S Sun, G Fu, JW Hall, Y Ni, L He, J Yi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inadequate water quality can mean that water is unsuitable for a variety of human uses, thus
exacerbating freshwater scarcity. Previous large-scale water scarcity assessments mostly …

Global agricultural economic water scarcity

L Rosa, DD Chiarelli, MC Rulli, J Dell'Angelo… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Water scarcity raises major concerns on the sustainable future of humanity and the
conservation of important ecosystem functions. To meet the increasing food demand without …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs

D Vanham, A Leip, A Galli, T Kastner… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The number of publications on environmental footprint indicators has been growing rapidly,
but with limited efforts to integrate different footprints into a coherent framework. Such …

The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability

Z Huang, X Yuan, X Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity has become a major issue to sustainable development. It can be estimated by
available fresh water resources and human water withdrawal, which are affected by both …

Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections

P Greve, T Kahil, J Mochizuki, T Schinko, Y Satoh… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Water scarcity, a critical environmental issue worldwide, has primarily been driven by a
significant increase in water extractions during the last century. In the coming decades …

Fresh water resource, scarcity, water salinity challenges and possible remedies: A review

W Musie, G Gonfa - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Water is one of the natural resource due balance if our planet and the life on it have to
sustain and economic development to be expected in the future. The increase in population …