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    Hydrological limits to carbon capture and storage

    1. Statistical Review of World Energy 2018 (BP, 2018). 2. Tong, D. et al. Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units. Nat. Sustain. 1, 59–68 (2018). Article Google Scholar 3. Oberschelp, C., Pfister, S., Raptis, C. E. & Hellweg, S. Global emission hotspots of coal power generation. Nat. Sustain. 2, 113–121 (2019). Article […] More

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    Contributions of recycled wastewater to clean water and sanitation Sustainable Development Goals

    Water pollution and impacts on human health and environment Worsening water pollution affects both developed and developing countries. In developing countries, it is mostly due to rapid population growth and urbanisation, increased industrial and other economic activities, and intensification and expansion of agriculture, coupled with lack of local and national legal and institutional capacities (managerial, […] More

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    Environmental costs of water transfers

    We acknowledge support from the Millennium Science Initiative from Chile’s Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism, through both the Millennium Nucleus MUSELS (NC120086) and the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO; IC120019). Additional support from the Water Research Center for Agriculture and Mining (CRHIAM), FONDAP/CONICYT 15130015 and FONDECYT 1170065 and 1190805 is also acknowledged. The views […] More

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    The importance of system configuration for distributed direct potable water reuse

    1. Daigger, G. T. Wastewater management in the 21st century. J. Environ. Eng. 133, 671–680 (2007). 2. Stillwell, A. S. et al. An integrated energy, carbon, water, and economic analysis of reclaimed water use in urban settings: a case study of Austin, Texas. J. Water Reuse Desal. 1, 208–223 (2011). Article Google Scholar 3. National […] More

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    Associations of drinking rainwater with macro-mineral intake and cardiometabolic health: a pooled cohort analysis in Bangladesh, 2016–2019

    Data sources and study settings We included 10,034 person-visit data from three cohort studies in Bangladesh (Fig. 2), all of which were conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). The first cohort was a pilot study conducted in the 2016 rainy season that followed 383 participants for two visits (742 person-visits)47. […] More

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    FiCli, the Fish and Climate Change Database, informs climate adaptation and management for freshwater fishes

    Freshwater fishes have important subsistence, cultural, and economic value worldwide (Lynch et al.)1. However, freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened on the planet with freshwater fishes showing the highest extinction rate among vertebrates in the 20th century (Burkhead 2012)2. The key anthropogenic pressures facing freshwater ecosystems are water extraction, habitat degradation, overexploitation, invasive species, […] More

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    Implications of losing snowpack

    1. Barnett, T. P., Adam, J. C. & Lettenmaier, D. P. Nature 438, 303–309 (2005). 2. Hock, R. G. et al. in IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (eds Pörtner, H.-O.) Ch. 2 (in the press). 3. Qin, Y. et al. Nat. Clim. Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0746-8 (2020). 4. Livneh, B. […] More

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    Drought less predictable under declining future snowpack

    1. Barnett, T. P., Adam, J. C. & Lettenmaier, D. P. Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions. Nature 438, 303–309 (2005). CAS Google Scholar 2. Simpkins, G. Snow-related water woes. Nat. Clim. Change 8, 945 (2018). Google Scholar 3. Viviroli, D., Dürr, H. H., Messerli, B., Meybeck, M. & […] More