{"id":1839,"date":"2014-06-04T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2014-06-04T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:34:42","slug":"one-in-four-major-cities-is-water-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/one-in-four-major-cities-is-water-stressed\/","title":{"rendered":"One in four major cities is water-stressed<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The first global database of urban water sources and stress finds that one in four major cities use more than 40 per cent of the water available to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"> This proportion is lower than previous estimates, in part because the new study accounts for the fact that many cities draw on distant watersheds, rather than just the one they are in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Water-stressed cities include Tokyo, Los Angeles and Beijing, but not Toronto and Montr\u00e9al, the two Canadian cities examined. The study also finds that richer cities can pipe clean water in from further afield, and that while large cities occupy only 1% of the Earth&#8217;s land surface, their source watersheds cover 41% of that area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0959378014000880\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the the journal<em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Global Environmental Change<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Bernard Lehner, McGill University, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Thomas Gleeson, McGill University, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first global database of urban water sources and stress finds that one in four major cities use more than 40 per cent of the water available to them. This proportion is lower than previous estimates, in part because the new study accounts for the fact that many cities draw on distant watersheds, rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,215,849,1708,1284],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-quebec-en","tag-urban-planning","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-tF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}