Global & Disaster Medicine

Urban water demand will increase by 80% by 2050

February 5th, 2018

Nature

Water competition between cities and agriculture driven by climate change and urban growth

Martina Flörke, Christof Schneider & Robert I. McDonald

Nature Sustainability 1, 51–58 (2018)

doi:10.1038/s41893-017-0006-8

“….We project an urban surface-water deficit of 1,386–6,764 million m³. More than 27% of cities studied, containing 233 million people, will have water demands that exceed surface-water availability. An additional 19% of cities, which are dependent on surface-water transfers, have a high potential for conflict between the urban and agricultural sectors, since both sectors cannot obtain their estimated future water demands. ….”

 

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