CORRESPONDENCE 31 December 2019 Lele Shu & University of California at Davis, USA. Contact Search for this author in: Zexuan Xu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. Search for this author in: Your view that China’s re-vegetation of its deserts could exacerbate water shortages risks oversimplifying an incredibly complex eco-restoration problem (Nature 573, 474–475; […] More
COMMENT 31 December 2019 There is no room for squeamishness in the face of the world’s growing water shortage — three steps could vastly improve the image of reused water for drinking. Cecilia Tortajada & Cecilia Tortajada is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, […] More
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CORRESPONDENCE 02 December 2019 Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Contact Search for this author in: Karen Villholth, International Water Management Institute, Pretoria, South Africa. Search for this author in: Richard Taylor, University College London, UK. Search for this author in: Debra Perrone & University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Search for this […] More
1. Behrens, P., van Vliet, M. T. H., Nanninga, T., Walsh, B. & Rodrigues, J. F. D. Climate change and the vulnerability of electricity generation to water stress in the European Union. Nat. Energy 2, 17114 (2017). Article Google Scholar 2. Ganguli, P., Kumar, D. & Ganguly, A. R. US power production at risk from […] More
1. Eliasson, J. The rising pressure of global water shortages. Nature 517, 6–7 (2015). 2. Mekonnen, M. M. & Hoekstra, A. Y. Four billion people facing severe water scarcity. Sci. Adv. 2, e1500323 (2016). Article Google Scholar 3. Attari, S. Z. Perceptions of water use. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 111, 5129–5134 (2014). 4. Shannon, […] More
WHERE I WORK 18 November 2019 A sediment scientist rebuilt his entire lab to model how water shapes underwater canyons. Kendall Powell Kendall Powell is a freelance writer in Boulder, Colorado. Search for this author in: Steven Yueh Jen Lai examines a small-scale submarine underwater braiding-system experiment in his lab in the Department of Hydraulic […] More
SWE enhances groundwater sustainability California recently endured a record-breaking drought after 2012 (refs. 20,21), which significantly impacted food production22, reduced hydropower generation23 and caused severe environmental issues (e.g., groundwater depletion, wildfires, tree mortality, land subsidence). As the largest agricultural producing state in the USA, California earned ~$47 billion from its agricultural sector and contributed to […] More
