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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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    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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    Including water quality monitoring in rural water services: why safe water requires challenging the quantity versus quality dichotomy

    Rural water service provision typically prioritises quantity over quality, which is often assumed to be adequate where groundwater is used. This practice maintains the separation of water safety from other aspects of rural water service provision, thereby establishing a false dichotomy—one that is reinforced by contradictory assumptions about whether water quality matters to the public. […] More

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    Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

    1. Brauman, K. A., Richter, B. D., Postel, S., Malsy, M. & Florke, M. Water depletion: an improved metric for incorporating seasonal and dry-year water scarcity into water risk assessments. Elem. Sci. Anth. 4, 000083 (2016). Google Scholar 2. Oki, T. & Kanae, S. Global hydrological cycles and world water resources. Science 313, 1068–1072 (2006). […] 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