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Assessing chronic and climate‐induced water risk through spatially distributed cumulative deficit measures: A new picture of water sustainability in India
Author(s) -
Devineni Naresh,
Perveen Shama,
Lall Upmanu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1002/wrcr.20184
Subject(s) - sustainability , water supply , metric (unit) , water stress , environmental science , climate change , water resource management , key (lock) , measure (data warehouse) , natural resource economics , environmental resource management , business , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental engineering , computer science , economics , engineering , geology , geotechnical engineering , ecology , data mining , computer security , agronomy , biology , oceanography , marketing
Key Points Spatially distributed measure of water stress integrates supply and demand Metric assesses risk posed by within year and over-year variations in supply Much of the water concerns could be alleviated without significant modifications