Open AccessProjected U.S. water use likely to increase as climate warms
Author(s) -
Balcerak Ernie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2013eo100015
Subject(s) - climate change , environmental science , climatology , climate model , water use , general circulation model , socioeconomic status , geography , natural resource economics , economics , oceanography , geology , population , demography , sociology , ecology , biology
Despite increases in efficiency, water demand in the United States is likely to increase substantially in the future if climate continues to warm, new projections indicate. Brown et al . project future water use to 2090 based on past trends from U.S. Geological Survey water use data from 1960 to 2005 and trends in efficiency. They projected U.S. water demand under climate change scenarios using three different global circulation models, and they ran each model for three different global socioeconomic scenarios adapted from the scenarios used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).