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File A PhD thesis Chapter on Water Scarcity First definition or approach of Water scarcity: used in reference to countries by water engineers, condition in which the annual availability of internal renewable fresh water is 1.000 cubic meters or less per person.
(The entire thesis)
File Bulletin de Sécheresse 2005 en France - Direction de l'eau
File Bulletin de situation hydrologique - France 2003
Document Coping with Water Scarcity: A strategic issue and priority for system-wide action Water scarcity is a relative concept and can occur at any level of supply or demand. Scarcity may be a social construct (a product of affluence, expectations and customary behaviour) or the consequence of altered supply patterns stemming from climate change. Scarcity has various causes, most of which are capable of being remedied or alleviated. A society facing water scarcity usually has options. However, scarcity often has its roots in water shortage, and it is in the arid and semiarid regions affected by droughts and wide climate variability, combined with population growth and economic development, that the problems of water scarcity are most acute.
File Drought Monitoring and assessment of water shortage mitigation measures

WUEMED Workshop - Roma, September 29-30, 2005.
URL Drought and Water Scarcity: discussion in the frame of EU Initiatives In the context of HYDROCARE actions a debate is promoted about the above mentioned issues starting from a screening of some, both closed and running,  relevant structural and research projects. The workshop held in Athens (Greece) last 19th January 2007 consisted in a first part dedicated to a brief description of the main themes concerning drought and water scarcity treated in each project. A discussion about the priorities for the new EU programming period is foreseen at the end of the presentations, focused on the main gaps still existing in research and operational approach to drought and water scarcity. See the programme.
File Drought in the Méditerranean A WWF Report, July 2006
File Désert et désertification Article de Sciences au Sud développant les problèmes inhérents au pays du Maghreb.
File Exemple d'un périmètre irrigué en Tunisie L'amélioration de l'efficience de l'irrigation pour une économie d'eau.
URL FAO document on water scarcity and agricultural biotechnologies
URL Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Bulletin
File Impact des changements climatique sur les ressources en eau au Maroc Rapport réalisé par le Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les systèmes hydrauliques et environnementaux.
File Informal Council of Environmen Ministers - Water Scarcity & Drought (WS&D)
File Limitations des usages et des prelevements d'eau 2005 en France Bureau de l'environnement, des affaires maritimes et du tourisme - Préfecture du Var.
HTML Document Links about Water Scarcity (unesco-waterportal-en)
Document Model-based scenarios of Mediterranean droughts This study examines the change in current 100-year hydrological drought frequencies in the Mediterranean in comparison to the 2070s as simulated by the global model WaterGAP. The analysis considers socio-economic and climate changes as indicated by the IPCC scenarios A2 and B2 and the global general circulation model ECHAM4. Under these conditions today's 100-year drought is estimated to occur 10 times more frequently in the future over a large part of the Northern Mediterranean while in North Africa, today's 100-year drought will occur less frequently. Water abstractions are shown to play a minor role in comparison to the impact of climate change, but can intensify the situation.

This study will, explicitly for the Mediterranean Region, examine whether the upward trend of droughts (IPCC, 2001), as described above, is likely to continue in the future, examining drought frequency as the main indicator. It will investigate the impacts of global change, including climate and socio-economic changes on future hydrological drought frequencies using two of the IPCC global emission scenarios, A2 and B2 (IPCC, 2000). These emission scenarios were constructed to explore future global developments of society and environment. Scenario A2 assumes a strong, but regionally oriented economic growth and fragmented technological change with an emphasis on human wealth, while B2 emphasizes the protection of the environment and social equity, but also relies on local solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Both scenarios represent a world in which the differences between developed and developing countries remain strong.

It is shown that climate change has a comparably stronger impact on the change in drought frequency than anthropogenic water uses. Water abstractions can, however, intensify drought conditions. On the other hand, this kind of drought analysis reaches its limits in a dry climate, as drought frequencies cannot increase in deserts and in these areas flows are too low to assume statistical significance of the changes.
URL New Stakeholder Forum on Water Scarcity and Droughts
File Note d'information - Création du CGSESE

Mise en place en Slovénie, du Centre de Gestion de la Sécheresse de l'Europe du Sud-est.
HTML Document Publications related to water scarcity (unesco-waterportal-en)
File Usage de l'eau en Tunisie Ressources en eau, usages et concurrences dans al Jeffara tunisienne.
Document Water Scarcity and Drought, 1st Interim report, November 2006
HTML Document L'agriculture assèche le pourtour du bassin Méditerranéen Communiqué de presse du WWF - Paris le 13 juillet 2006.
URL Evolution du climat et Sécheresse en Méditerranée Article mettant en perspective le changement climatique et état de sécheresse dans le bassin Méditerranéen.
URL Liste des arrétés préfectoraux - France Arrétés préfectoraux en cas de sécheresse afin de limiter les usages en eau, l'exemple français.
URL Institutions, et organismes de lutte contre la désertification Liste de sites regroupant divers organisations luttant et organisant la gestion des phénomènes de désertifications et de sécheresses.
URL Inventaire des Sécheresse dans le Monde
URL Développer l'agriculture et le pays, en dépit du manque d'eau, le rôle des bio-technologies
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