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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 04 Jan 2021
Water stress

Ratio of water demand over the total available water resources.

Pfister, S., Koehler, A., and Hellweg, S., 2009, 'Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Freshwater Consumption in LCA'. Environ. Sci. Technol., 43, pp. 4098–4104

Source category: Scientific & Technical Literature