Masoud Jafari Shalamzari|Wanchang Zhang
Assessing Water Scarcity Using the Water Poverty Index (WPI) in Golestan Province of Iran
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth|Chinese Academy of Sciences|Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth|Chinese Academy of Sciences
population growth rising water demand climate change severe droughts landuse changes among top severe issues iran water management country sectoral disintegrated authority evaluates water based final intention commonplace indicator evaluation programs research used water poverty index wpi map status water scarcity northeastern province iran water poverty measured based five components resources access capacity use environment scores component aggregated using weighted multiplicative function assuming equal weights components overall wpi evaluated 411 signaling alarming serious water poverty study area based results azadshahr 291 gorgan 616 districts worst best conditions among cases respectively better understand importance wpi components four weighting alternatives used however none resulted tangible improvement wpi index crosscorrelation components also evaluated access capacity showing significant results leaving capacity however reduced wpi 81 total access capacity use highest correlation wpi implying attempt improve water poverty province must firstly tackle issues study showed wpi effective indicator water scarcity assessment could used make priorities policymaking water management