Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265060 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Water and Sanitation Division Technical Note No. IDB-TN-2411
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: 
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the most water-rich region in the world, but millions of its inhabitants live with water risk. This contradiction, driven by mismatches in the location of supply vs demand, quality issues, and failing infrastructure, makes it crucial that policy makers use people-centric water risk metrics when assessing water risk in LAC. 35% of the population lives in water stressed basins, a number which balloons to 60% when accounting for the lack of institutional capacity for preserving water quality and providing water services.
Subjects: 
water stress
water scarcity
water risk
climate change
population - based metrics
JEL: 
Q25
Q54
Q56
R11
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Research Report
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