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The sustainable development of human social society and economy requires access to water resources. With the rapid growth of the world’s population, global water shortages will become the main crisis of the twenty-first century (Eliasson 2015; Pearce 2006; Schade and Pimentel 2010; Vörösmarty et al. 2010); more specifically, population dynamics (growth, age distribution, urbanization, and migration) create pressures on freshwater resources due to the increased water demands and pollution (Mekonnen and Hoekstra 2016; Polizzotto et al. 2008).
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Duan, W., Takara, K. (2020). Introduction. In: Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9394-5_1
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