Water Supply and Scarcity
According to the United Nations, water scarcity is defined as the point at which the aggregate impact of all users impinges on the supply or quality of water. Water scarcity is a relative concept and can occur at any level of supply or demand. Scarcity may be socially-constructed or the consequence of altered supply patterns stemming from climate change. Resources available in this sub-theme include U.S. drought monitoring data, workshops for rural water supply systems, among other resources that support water supply and scarcity.
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Water Supply and Scarcity Resources
Assessing the Economic & Environmental Benefits of Industrial WUE in the Great Lakes Region
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February 1, 2013Alliance for Water Efficiency
The Alliance for Water Efficiency, with funding from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, assessed five representative industries within the Great Lakes watershed that are supplied with treated drinking water and that discharge to a local wastewater utility. The assessments that were conducted focused...Read more
Exemplary Programs Series: Innovative CII Water Efficiency Programs
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May 1, 2014Alliance for Water Efficiency
As part of a new series which AWE has launched on showcasing Exemplary Programs of its members, this webinar will feature the internationally recognized CII programs of City West Water in Melbourne, Australia. During Australia's epic 10-year drought, water suppliers in southeastern Australia...Read more
Water Loss Control: Efficiency in the Water Utility Sector
Alliance for Water Efficiency
With water resources increasingly stressed due to climate change and growing populations, water utilities must become water-efficient throughout the entire supply process. By employing improved methods of water auditing and loss control, water utilities have potential to reduce the large volumes of...Read more
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United StatesAssessing the Economic & Environmental Benefits of Industrial WUE in the Great Lakes Region
Published:
February 1, 2013Alliance for Water Efficiency
The Alliance for Water Efficiency, with funding from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, assessed five representative industries within the Great Lakes watershed that are supplied with treated drinking water and that discharge to a local wastewater utility. The assessments that were conducted focused...Read more
The NASA Water Information System Platforms for the MENA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This resource provides information on remote sensing based platforms for water managers to Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt and tools for water availability, agriculture, drought, floods, ground water and climate change with an emphasis on semi-arid to arid systems that can be...Read more
Enhacing Vegetation Productivity Forecasting Using Remotely-Sensed Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This resource includes satellite-derived soil moisture data with data assimilation for assessing and predicting rain fed agriculture and rangeland production. It is a USDA and NASA collaborative project. The typical spatial resolution for this tool is 25 km.Read more
Goddard Space Flight Center's Land Information System
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Land Information System (LIS) is a flexible land surface modeling and data assimilation framework developed with the goal of integrating satellite- and ground-based observational data products and advanced land surface modeling techniques to produce optimal fields of land surface states and fluxes...Read more
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GlobalAfrican Drought Monitor
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The African Drought Monitor has been installed in Niamey, Niger (Feb 1 2012.) at AGRHYMET. NASA plans on adding weather and seasonal hydrological forecasting over the next 6 months and SMOS-based soil moisture through collaboration with CESBIO and crop water requirements and actual ET over the next...Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaNASA Water Resources
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The NASA Applied Sciences Program has the primary responsibility to apply data from NASA satellite missions to models in order to help solve problems important to society and the economy. The NASA Water Resources theme in the Applied Sciences Program addresses concerns and decision processes that...Read more
Federal Support Toolbox for Integrated Water Resources Management
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March 1, 2013U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The Federal Support Toolbox is a comprehensive "one-stop-shop" online water resources data portal with direct links to valuable data, state of the art models and tools for utilization in information sharing and collaboration for the water resources community in the U.S. and...Read more
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