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Severe water stress threatens river basins around the globe

Areas where water supplies are stretched thinnest are clustered in Asia and North America.
Fishing boats moored in the Shatt al-Arab water way near Basrah, Iraq

Fishing boats in the Tigris–Euphrates river basin, which faces growing water stress because of a rise in crop irrigation and a drop in runoff. Credit: Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/Getty

Human lives and activities in certain Asian and North American watersheds could face extreme risk during the next prolonged drought or heatwave.

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Nature 570, 141 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01759-6

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