Water and food security in an insecure world
Since the rises in food prices in 2008 and beyond, food security is high on the development agenda. Recognizing that water is an essential element to achieve food security goals, several high level events
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
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Global water scarcity: the monthly blue water footprint compared to blue water availability for the world’s major river basins
Conventional blue water scarcity indicators suffer from four weaknesses: they measure water withdrawal instead of consumptive water use, they compare water use with actual runoff rather than natural (undepleted)