4PLANET IMPACT / ISSUE

Water scarcity

Freshwater scarcity emerges where water demand, withdrawals, availability and access place sustained pressure on renewable water resources.

Why it matters

Water scarcity is highly place-dependent; global indicators are useful orientation but can hide local hydrology, infrastructure and distribution.

What the sources establish

FAO AQUASTAT provides global information on water resources, water use and agricultural water management used to assess freshwater pressure and scarcity.
Source: https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/

Projects working on it

Living Indus Initiative — Living Indus Initiative, Pakistan
Nature-Based Solutions for Drought — International Union for Conservation of Nature, Burkina Faso, Georgia and Kenya

Organisations

Known and not established

Global water-stress data are coarse and should not be presented as a local water diagnosis without place-specific evidence.
This issue record is source-grounded context, not proof that any particular project, action or intervention is effective.

Sources

fao.org

Truth boundary. Listing does not imply 4PLANET partnership or endorsement. Source-reported figures are not independently verified by 4PLANET. Delivery, outcome and verification remain separate states.

Approaches associated with this problem

Basin-scale nature-based restoration — Coordinated nature-based restoration across a large river basin.
Dryland landscape restoration — Restore degraded dryland mosaics of grassland, farmland and woody vegetation through locally adapted landscape restoration.

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