Climate Risks to Water Security

Upper midwest climate variations: farmer responses to excess water risks.

Persistent above average precipitation and runoff and associated increased sediment transfers from cultivated ecosystems to rivers and oceans are due to changes in climate and human action. The US Upper Midwest has experienced a 37% increase in precipitation (1958-2012), leading to increased crop damage from excess water and off-farm loss of soil and nutrients. Farmer adaptive management respon...

Risks and responses to universal drinking water security.

Risks to universal drinking water security are accelerating due to rapid demographic, climate and economic change. Policy responses are slow, uneven and largely inadequate to address the nature and scale of the global challenges. The challenges relate both to maintaining water security in increasingly fragile supply systems and to accelerating reliable access to the hundreds of millions who rem...

Climate change and food security: risks and responses

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RAPID COMMUNICATION Integrating risks of climate change into water management

Integrating risks of climate change into water management

Integrating risks of climate change into water management P. Döll, B. Jiménez-Cisneros, T. Oki, N.W. Arnell, G. Benito, J.G. Cogley, T. Jiang, Z.W. Kundzewicz, S. Mwakalila & A. Nishijima a Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany b UNESCO, International Hydrological Programme, Paris, France c Institute of Engineering, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico d ...