Water availability and use across the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) basins
2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 36; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/02508060.2011.543801
ISSN1941-1707
AutoresMark Mulligan, L.L. Saenz Cruz, Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia, Bishnu Prasad Pandey, Gil Mahé, Myles Fisher,
Tópico(s)Flood Risk Assessment and Management
ResumoAbstract This paper analyses water availability and use within and between the Challenge Program on Water and Food basins. It describes the main features of water demand and supply in the basins and indicates where there are deficits and opportunities for development of water resources. A typology of basin water resources status uses a range of global spatial datasets. The main outcomes of basin activities on water availability are identified. Interbasin assessment of water availability is very challenging for such very large basins, due in large part to difficulties in collecting and integrating local data sets. Keywords: water resourceswater usemega-basinsclimatespatial analysisChallenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the CPWF and its donors for funding the Basin Focal Projects. This paper benefited greatly from reviews by the CPWF BFP team, the volume editors and anonymous reviewers. Valuable contributions were received from reports authored by BFP water availability teams including contributions from: Yasir Mohammed (Nile), Kevin Scott (Limpopo), Jianshi Zhao (Yellow River), Luna Bharati and Bharat Sharma (Indus-Ganges), Jacques Lemoalle (Volta), Mac Kirby (Mekong), Steve Vosti (São Francisco), Mark Giordano and Mobin Ahmad (Karkheh).
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