World water dynamics: global modeling of water resources.

@article{Simonovic2002WorldWD,
  title={World water dynamics: global modeling of water resources.},
  author={Slobodan P. Simonovic},
  journal={Journal of environmental management},
  year={2002},
  volume={66 3},
  pages={
          249-67
        }
}
  • S. Simonovic
  • Published 1 November 2002
  • Economics, Environmental Science
  • Journal of environmental management
The growing scarcity of fresh and clean water is among the most important issues facing civilization in the 21st century. Despite the growing attention to a chronic, pernicious crisis in world's water resources our ability to correctly assess and predict global water availability, use and balance is still quite limited. An attempt is documented here in modeling global world water resources using system dynamics approach. Water resources sector (quantity and quality) is integrated with five… 
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