Historically, water scarcity has been understood to result from unfavorable climatological and hydrological factors. From this perspective, infrastructural solutions that augment water supplies, such as desalination, are ...

Have received attention and have been in international global agenda. Recently, the discussion about water availability has been more frequent due to the lack of water in some regions of the State of Sao Paulo. Water ...

This paper shows the actual conditions of freshwater availability in Baja California (BC), Mexico. It aims to estimate the water needs by 2030, and propose scenarios to move out of the scarce water region classification ...

La escasez de agua constituye un problema de Estado en las tierras secas de laprovincia de Mendoza, Argentina. Sin embargo, mientras el gobierno local naturaliza y difunde la escasez como un problema de todos, los contrastes ...

Chile contains some of the driest areas in the world, yet human activities in these areas require large volumes of water, the result is regions experiencing high water scarcity leading to environmental degradation, conflicts ...