Are We Heading Toward a Thirsty Planet?

DOI

10.2991/icemet-16.2016.404How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Water scarcity; Comprehensive Evaluation; Entropy Method.

Abstract

Currently, one quarter of the world's population is experiencing water scarcity. In order to alleviate this situation, the Comprehensive Evaluation Model based on Entropy Method (CEE) is used to evaluate the ability of a region to provide clean water to meet the needs of its population. The CEE has selected 7 representative index, such as GDP water consumption, per capital water resources, the waste-water emissions and so on. These index reflect the relationships between water resources and economy, society, ecology. Entropy method is applied to calculate the weight of each indicator, and then we compute the final score of the comprehensive indicator. The higher the final score is, the better the supply situation is

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xin Zhang
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TI  - Are We Heading Toward a Thirsty Planet?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 1765
SN  - 2352-5398
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