Inter Basin Water Transfer. Sep2012 vol 4 issue 9 p750 758. One solution is to use inter basin transfer ibt schemes to move water from where it is abundant to where it is scarce.

Hen wood eds hydropolit ics in the developing w orld. These problems are likely to intensify under future population growth and climate change scenarios. World population and pressures on land water and food resources 2.
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However this has brought lots of negative consequences that. The snowy mountains hydro electric scheme 5. The ibts have developed over a long history. In this paper we employ four widely used characterization factors which were originally developed with global estimates of water demand and availability to evaluate the impact that inter basin transfer ibt of water has on water risk assessments and consequently on the evaluation of the soundness of water cycle.