Global Water Scarcity and Unconventional Water Resources

Freshwater scarcity is a global systemic risk. Its impacts reach far beyond socio-economic and environmental challenges and influence people’s livelihoods and wellbeing. As water scarcity deepens in arid and overpopulated regions, there is a need to explore water supply options beyond conventional water resources—snowfall, rainfall, river runoff, and easily accessible groundwater—since they already often fall short of meeting the growing water …