TY - JOUR IS - 28 Y1 - 2009/07/14/ PB - American Geophysical Union (AGU) A1 - Taylor, R SP - 237 UR - https://doi.org/10.1029/2009EO280001 TI - Rethinking Water Scarcity: The Role of Storage ID - discovery10197481 SN - 0096-3941 N1 - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. JF - Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union EP - 238 AV - public N2 - Water scarcity, in its simplest sense, can be defined as a shortage in the availability of freshwater relative to demand. Freshwater shortages directly affect food security, access to safe drinking water, hygiene and public health, and environmental well?being. Water scarcity can also retard economic development and promote civil strife. Robust measures of water scarcity are therefore required to inform water policy and help allocate resources to mitigate these effects. VL - 90 ER -