Water competition between cities and agriculture driven by climate change and urban growth

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Water-energy-food nexus: Concepts, questions and methodologies (2018, background): “comprehensive outline of nexus issues (Flörke et al., 2018; Schlör et al., 2018).”
Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions (2021, methodology): “To estimate urban water scarcity, we quanti ﬁ ed the total urban population living in water-scarce areas 2,3,7,19 .”
Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways (2020, neutral): “(1) can then be applied to the prediction of future per capita urban land demand using the scenario projections of per capita GDP and the urbanisation rate provided by the SSPs database (https://tntcat.”
Global unsustainable virtual water flows in agricultural trade (2019, positive): “Following previous global analyses we assumed that 80% of annual blue water flows should be allocated for environmental flows preservation (i.e. remain unavailable to human consumption) (Richter et al 2012, Mekonnen and Hoekstra 2016, Flörke et al 2018).”
Rural water for thirsty cities: a systematic review of water reallocation from rural to urban regions (2019, background): “Urban water demand is projected to increase by 50– 80% by 2050, often in regions also experiencing irrigation development (Florke et al 2018, World Bank 2018).”