| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Title | Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management |
| Author | Anne F Van Loon and Sally Rangecroft and Gemma Coxon and Micha Werner and Niko Wanders and Giuliano Di Baldassarre and Erik Tijdeman and Marianne Bosman and Tom Gleeson and Alexandra Nauditt and Amir Aghakouchak and Jose Agustin Breña-Naranjo and Omar Cenobio-Cruz and Alexandre Cunha Costa and Miriam Fendekova and Graham Jewitt and Daniel G Kingston and Jessie Loft and Sarah M Mager and Iman Mallakpour and Ilyas Masih and Héctor Maureira-Cortés and Elena Toth and Pieter Van Oel and Floris Van Ogtrop and Koen Verbist and Jean-Philippe Vidal and Li Wen and Meixiu Yu and Xing Yuan and Miao Zhang and Henny AJ Van Lanen |
| Journal | Environmental Research Letters |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 044059 |
| Abstract | Human activities both aggravate and alleviate streamflow drought. Here we show that aggravation is dominant in contrasting cases around the world analysed with a consistent methodology. Our 28 cases included different combinations of human-water interactions. We found that water abstraction aggravated all drought characteristics, with increases of 20%–305% in total time in drought found across the case studies, and increases in total deficit of up to almost 3000%. Water transfers reduced drought time and deficit by up to 97%. In cases with both abstraction and water transfers into the catchment or augmenting streamflow from groundwater, the water inputs could not compensate for the aggravation of droughts due to abstraction and only shift the effects in space or time. Reservoir releases for downstream water use alleviated droughts in the dry season, but also led to deficits in the wet season by changing flow … |
| Cited by | 37 (Updated on Apr-08-2024) |
| Url | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5def/meta |
| Achive | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5def/pdf |
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