#watergap — Public Fediverse posts
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Gap Between Water Supply And Demand Will Increase As Climate Shifts, Analysis Finds
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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-gap-demand-climate-shifts-analysis.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56517-2 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatialtemporal #watermanagement #waterresources #watersecurity #water #hydrology #watersupply #global #climatechange #warming #consumption #foodsecurity #agriculture #food #availability #economics #development #model #modeling #energy #scarcity #watergap #freshwater #groundwater #river #lake #aquifer #reserves #environment #stress #rainfall #precipitation #research #sustainable #planning #policy #gap #demand -
"Substantial #water gaps can currently be found in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin in India and Bangladesh, the Sabarmati basin in India and the Tigris-Euphrates basin, which covers much of the Middle East.
Under both warming scenarios, notable increases in water gaps are expected in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin and the Mississippi-Missouri basin in the US."
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-the-global-water-gap-will-grow-under-climate-change/
#WaterGap -
Society World #Water Map https://worldwatermap.nationalgeographic.org/
We tend to use more water than is available in the world, which as you can imagine, can be problematic. In a collaborative effort, National Geographic mapped the #WaterGap since 1980