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- Regional water observation mechanism
- Regional Cooperation Assessment
- Water Quality Monitoring (JP)
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Water scarcity and drought (JP)
- WG meeting, Madrid, 2010-02-17
- Water Scarcity Private Area
- WG meeting, Seville, 2007-06-19
- WG meeting, Brussels, 2006-09-26
- Water Scarcity and Drought Survey (2007)
- Phase I documents 2004-2006
- EU WG on Water Scarcity and Drought
- 20100217
- Background documents
- Desertification, Drought and water scarcity
- EC Expert group on WS&D meeting, Venice 13-14 October 2011
- Halting desertification in Europe
- Water Security
- Groundwater (JP)
- Waste water reuse (JP)
- Shared Water Resources Management (JP)
- Linking rural development and water management (JP)
- Waste management
- Water institutions
- Climate Change
- Floods
- Desalination
- Right to Water
- Irrigation
- Satellite data
- Water reports & data
- Hydrology
- Sanitation
- Gender and IWRM
- ArabWAYS
- Non-Revenue Water
- Virtual Water & Water Footprint
- WANA Water Panel
- Water Demand
- Water Governance
- Water Pricing
- Water accounts
- Water nexus Energy
- Geosciences
- Rural Management
Desertification, Drought and water scarcity
Water Scarcity
Water scarcity refers to the relative shortage of water in a water supply system that may lead to
restrictions on consumption. Scarcity is the extent to which demand exceeds the available resources
and can be caused either by drought or by human actions such as population growth, water misuse
and inequitable access to water. At the national level water scarcity is expressed as m3 per capita per
year. The greater the figure the greater is the scarcity. Most of the Mediterranean countries are facing
water scarcity.
Drought: Concept
Drought is a recurrent feature of climate that is characterized by temporary water shortages relative to normal supply, over an extended period of time – a season, a year, or several years. The term is
relative, since droughts differ in extent, duration, and intensity.
Desertification
Desertification means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities.
