Water Supply and Scarcity
According to the United Nations, water scarcity is defined as the point at which the aggregate impact of all users impinges on the supply or quality of water. Water scarcity is a relative concept and can occur at any level of supply or demand. Scarcity may be socially-constructed or the consequence of altered supply patterns stemming from climate change. Resources available in this sub-theme include U.S. drought monitoring data, workshops for rural water supply systems, among other resources that support water supply and scarcity.
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Water Supply and Scarcity Resources
The NASA Water Information System Platforms for the MENA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This resource provides information on remote sensing based platforms for water managers to Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt and tools for water availability, agriculture, drought, floods, ground water and climate change with an emphasis on semi-arid to arid systems that can be...Read more
Goddard Space Flight Center's Land Information System
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Land Information System (LIS) is a flexible land surface modeling and data assimilation framework developed with the goal of integrating satellite- and ground-based observational data products and advanced land surface modeling techniques to produce optimal fields of land surface states and fluxes...Read more
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GlobalNASA Water Resources
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The NASA Applied Sciences Program has the primary responsibility to apply data from NASA satellite missions to models in order to help solve problems important to society and the economy. The NASA Water Resources theme in the Applied Sciences Program addresses concerns and decision processes that...Read more
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