Uncharted Waters

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dc.creatorDamania, Richard
dc.creatorDesbureaux, Sébastien
dc.creatorHyland, Marie
dc.creatorIslam, Asif
dc.creatorMoore, Scott
dc.creatorRodella, Aude-Sophie
dc.creatorRuss, Jason
dc.creatorZaveri, Esha
dc.date2017-08-31T20:07:12Z
dc.date2017-08-31T20:07:12Z
dc.date2017-10-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:39:38Z
dc.descriptionThe 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces – burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas across the globe. And with climate change, rainfall will become more fickle, with longer and deeper periods of droughts and deluges. This report presents new evidence to advance understanding on how rainfall shocks coupled with water scarcity, impacts farms, firms, and families. On farms, the largest consumers of water in the world, impacts are channeled from declining yields to changing landscapes. In cities, water extremes especially when combined with unreliable infrastructure can stall firm production, sales, and revenue. At the center of this are families, who feel the impacts of this uncertainty on their incomes, jobs, and long-term health and welfare. Although a rainfall shock may be fleeting, its consequences can become permanent and shape the destiny of those who experience it. Pursuing business as usual will lead many countries down a “parched path” where droughts shape destinies. Avoiding this misery in slow motion will call for fundamental changes to water policy around the globe. Building resilience to rainfall variability will require using different policy instruments to address the multifaceted nature of water. A key message of this report is that water has multiple economic attributes, each of which entail distinct policy responses. If water is not managed more prudently—from source, to tap, and back to source—the crises observed today will become the catastrophes of tomorrow.
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dc.identifierhttps://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/680051554963678174/uncharted-waters-the-new-economics-of-water-scarcity-and-variability
dc.identifier978-1-4648-1179-1
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/28096
dc.identifier10.1596/978-1-4648-1179-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/408547
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectRAINFALL
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectWEATHER
dc.subjectDROUGHT
dc.subjectGLOBAL WARMING
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectCITIES
dc.subjectFIRMS
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectDEFORESTATION
dc.titleUncharted Waters
dc.titleThe New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability
dc.typeBook
dc.typeLivre
dc.typeLibro

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