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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6204262 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Earth's future 20170321 6
Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio-economic development and a threat to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research has attracted much political and public attention. We here review a variety of indicators that have been developed to capture different characteristics of water scarcity. Population, water availability and water use are the key elements of these indicators. Most of the progress made in the last few decades has been o ...[more]