缺水
稀缺
环境科学
水资源管理
水资源
水质
水安全
城市化
污染
水污染
自然资源经济学
环境保护
生态学
经济
生物
微观经济学
作者
Mengru Wang,Benjamin Leon Bodirsky,R. Rijneveld,Felicitas Beier,Mirjam P. Bak,Masooma Batool,Bram Droppers,Alexander Popp,Michelle T. H. van Vliet,Maryna Strokal
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-44947-3
摘要
Abstract Water security is at stake today. While climate changes influence water availability, urbanization and agricultural activities have led to increasing water demand as well as pollution, limiting safe water use. We conducted a global assessment of future clean-water scarcity for 2050s by adding the water pollution aspect to the classical water quantity-induced scarcity assessments. This was done for >10,000 sub-basins focusing on nitrogen pollution in rivers by integrating land-system, hydrological and water quality models. We found that water pollution aggravates water scarcity in >2000 sub-basins worldwide. The number of sub-basins with water scarcity triples due to future nitrogen pollution worldwide. In 2010, 984 sub-basins are classified as water scarce when considering only quantity-induced scarcity, while 2517 sub-basins are affected by quantity & quality-induced scarcity. This number even increases to 3061 sub-basins in the worst case scenario in 2050. This aggravation means an extra 40 million km 2 of basin area and 3 billion more people that may potentially face water scarcity in 2050. Our results stress the urgent need to address water quality in future water management policies for the Sustainable Development Goals.
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