Potential Climate Change Impacts
Water Resources
Precipitation changes and increased evaporation can affect:
water supplies
water quality and drinking water
water uses: hydropower, irrigation, fisheries
Floods more likely due to more intense rainfall
Droughts likely to be more severe due to increased evaporation and drier soils
Andrea Hahmann
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