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Water at a crossroads

Climate and water expert Pavel Kabat — director and CEO of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis in Austria — calls for a long-term system approach to water research, new partnerships with the developing world and a change in donor practices, to tackle water-climate issues. He talks to Nature Climate Change.

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Figure 1: Breakdown of water-use data.
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Contestabile, M. Water at a crossroads. Nature Clim Change 3, 11–12 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1780

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