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SUBMITTER: Zhou F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7148580 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Feng F Bo Yan Y Ciais Philippe P Dumas Patrice P Tang Qiuhong Q Wang Xuhui X Liu Junguo J Zheng Chunmiao C Polcher Jan J Yin Zun Z Guimberteau Matthieu M Peng Shushi S Ottle Catherine C Zhao Xining X Zhao Jianshi J Tan Qian Q Chen Lei L Shen Huizhong H Yang Hui H Piao Shilong S Wang Hao H Wada Yoshihide Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200324 14
Increased human water use combined with climate change have aggravated water scarcity from the regional to global scales. However, the lack of spatially detailed datasets limits our understanding of the historical water use trend and its key drivers. Here, we present a survey-based reconstruction of China's sectoral water use in 341 prefectures during 1965 to 2013. The data indicate that water use has doubled during the entire study period, yet with a widespread slowdown of the growth rates from ...[more]