Reassessing the projections of the world water development report

A Boretti, L Rosa - NPJ Clean Water, 2019 - nature.com
The 2018 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report stated that nearly
6 billion peoples will suffer from clean water scarcity by 2050. This is the result of increasing …

Hydropower dams of the Mekong River basin: A review of their hydrological impacts

JS Hecht, G Lacombe, ME Arias, TD Dang, T Piman - Journal of hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydropower production is altering the Mekong River basin's riverine ecosystems, which
contain the world's largest inland fishery and provide food security and livelihoods to …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

Changing sediment budget of the Mekong: Cumulative threats and management strategies for a large river basin

GM Kondolf, RJP Schmitt, P Carling, S Darby… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two decades after the construction of the first major dam, the Mekong basin and its six
riparian countries have seen rapid economic growth and development of the river system …

A review of the integrated effects of changing climate, land use, and dams on Mekong river hydrology

Y Pokhrel, M Burbano, J Roush, H Kang, V Sridhar… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
The ongoing and proposed construction of large-scale hydropower dams in the Mekong
river basin is a subject of intense debate and growing international concern due to the …

Tidal amplification and salt intrusion in the Mekong Delta driven by anthropogenic sediment starvation

S Eslami, P Hoekstra, N Nguyen Trung… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Natural resources of the Mekong River are essential to livelihood of tens of millions of
people. Previous studies highlighted that upstream hydro-infrastructure developments …

Observed river discharge changes due to hydropower operations in the Upper Mekong Basin

TA Räsänen, P Someth, H Lauri, J Koponen… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Mekong Basin is undergoing extensive hydropower development and its
largest dams have recently become operational. Hydropower is built to improve the regional …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing sentinel-1 surface water mapping algorithms and radiometric terrain correction processing in southeast asia utilizing google earth engine

KN Markert, AM Markert, T Mayer, C Nauman, A Haag… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Satellite remote sensing plays an important role in the monitoring of surface water for
historical analysis and near real-time applications. Due to its cloud penetrating capability …

Impacts of climate change and reservoir operation on streamflow and flood characteristics in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin

X Yun, Q Tang, J Wang, X Liu, Y Zhang, H Lu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) is one of the most important
transboundary river basins in Asia. While climate change perturbs the streamflow and affects …

Projections of salt intrusion in a mega-delta under climatic and anthropogenic stressors

S Eslami, P Hoekstra, PSJ Minderhoud… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Rising temperatures, rapid urbanization and soaring demand for natural resources threaten
deltas worldwide and make them vulnerable to rising seas, subsidence, droughts, floods …