Tag: Water Scarcity

  • UPGro research on cover of Ambio
    UPGro research on cover of Ambio

    GroFutures water scarcity article featured on journal cover A critical review of water scarcity metrics written by UCL PhD student, Simon Damkjaer, and GroFutures PI, Richard Taylor, is featured on the cover of this month’s issue of Ambio. The article argues that current metrics including those used to track progress toward the UN Sustainable Development…

  • Scale of global water crisis could be unknown due to inadequate metrics, study suggests #worldwaterday
    Scale of global water crisis could be unknown due to inadequate metrics, study suggests #worldwaterday

    Re-posted from UCL A new study by UCL researchers exposes substantial limitations in the ability of current metrics to define ‘water scarcity’.   21 March 2017 A new study by UCL suggests the scale of the global water crisis could not be properly known at due to inadequacies with the current metrics used to measure it.…