NDLI: The drivers of risk to water security in Shanghai

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Author	Finlayson, Brian L. Barnett, Jon Wei, Taoyuan Webber, Michael Li, Maotian Wang, Mark Y. Chen, Jing Xu, Hao Chen, Zhongyuan
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Big cities are often said to have big water problems, and Shanghai is no exception. In this paper, we examine and compare the influence of the major factors that give rise to the risk of water insecurity in Shanghai. There is an extensive and diverse literature on these issues, dealt with in isolation, and here, we provide a synthesis of the literature, together with our own assessments and calculations, to assess what are the risks to Shanghai’s water supply and what is our degree of confidence in this assessment. We describe the systems that supply water to the city, and past and future changes in the systems, including changes in the glaciers that supply some water to the river, changes in climate, changes in land use, the construction of dams, and water diversions. We show how, at the same time as Shanghai is increasing its dependence on the Yangtze river, water diversions and sea level rise are increasing the risk that this water will be too saline to consume at certain times of the year. This analysis suggests that most of the major drivers of the risk to water security in Shanghai are within the power of environmental managers to control.
Starting Page	329
Ending Page	340
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14363798
Journal	Regional Environmental Change
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1436378X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2012-08-12
Publisher Place	Berlin/Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Climate change Sea level rise Dams South-North transfer China Water scarcity Climate Change Climate Change Impacts Oceanography Geography (general) Regional/Spatial Science Nature Conservation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Global and Planetary Change

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