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“While scarcity of water resources are felt locally, but its causes are increasingly global.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Economic Geography

Water scarcity takes two forms: physical scarcity, where withdrawals approach the renewable supply, and economic scarcity, where water exists but infrastructure and institutions fail to deliver it.

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  • Scarcity Is Felt at the Well, the Tap and the Field
  • Climate Change: A Globally Forced, Locally Expressed Driver
  • Virtual Water: Distant Consumption Draining Local Aquifers
  • Global Production Chains and Transboundary Politics
  • The Qualification: Much Causation Remains Stubbornly Local

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