Monthly water scarcity assessment & water footprinting

Monthly WSI have been calculated as described in DownloadPfister & Baumann (2012) (PDF, 879 KB)vertical_align_bottom and external pagePfister & Bayer (2013)call_made .

There is a zip file including 12 individual monthly WSI maps (field "WSI_#" Where "#" represents the number of the month in a year). The other fields represent the input data from WaterGap 2.0 model (Alcamo et al. 2003): "BAS34S_ID" is the watershed ID, "ROUT_AREA" is the watersehd area in km2, "COUNTRY_NR" is the country code, "AVL6190_KM" is the availability in km3 per year; "TOTWWD95_K" is the total water withdrawal in km3 per year and "WTA_95" is the resulting withdrawal-to-availability ratio for the reference year 1995 in %.

The result maps can also be browsed in our interactive GeoMaps.

The Google Earth files (.kml) are directly opened by double-click in Google Earth (if installed).

This work has been supported by ◦Veolia Water◦

Download

• Download12 individual maps of monthly WSI, for Google Earth (ZIP folder) (ZIP, 8.5 MB)vertical_align_bottom
• DownloadCombined layer with all monthly WSI (KMZ, 1.1 MB)vertical_align_bottom as well as the water use weighted average WSI ("Wweigh_mWSI"; displayed as color map), the arithmetic mean ("Avg_mWSI"), the geometric mean ("GeoM_mWSI"), and the annual WSI as published in Pfister et al. 2009 ("orig_WSI").