dc.contributor.author	Damania, Richard
dc.contributor.author	Desbureaux, Sébastien
dc.contributor.author	Hyland, Marie
dc.contributor.author	Islam, Asif
dc.contributor.author	Moore, Scott
dc.contributor.author	Rodella, Aude-Sophie
dc.contributor.author	Russ, Jason
dc.contributor.author	Zaveri, Esha
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-31T20:07:12Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-31T20:07:12Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10-24
dc.description.abstract	The 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.	en
dc.identifier	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/680051554963678174/uncharted-waters-the-new-economics-of-water-scarcity-and-variability
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-1179-1
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-1179-1
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/28096
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	RAINFALL
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subject	WEATHER
dc.subject	DROUGHT
dc.subject	GLOBAL WARMING
dc.subject	AGRICULTURE
dc.subject	CITIES
dc.subject	FIRMS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject	POVERTY
dc.subject	DEFORESTATION
dc.title	Uncharted Waters	en
dc.title.subtitle	The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability	en
dc.type	Book	en
dc.type	Livre	fr
dc.type	Libro	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Uncharted Waters: The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability
okr.date.disclosure	2017-10-24
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/unchartedwaters
okr.guid	680051554963678174
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-1179-1
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	211179
okr.identifier.report	119840
okr.imported	true
okr.language.supported	en
okr.topic	Agriculture::Agricultural Irrigation and Drainage
okr.topic	Environment::Adaptation to Climate Change
okr.topic	Environment::Water Resources Management
okr.topic	Water Resources::Drought Management
okr.topic	Water Resources::Flood Control
okr.topic	Water Resources::Water Economics
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