A water cycle for the Anthropocene
[Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [ADD1_IRSTEA]Systèmes aquatiques soumis à des pressions multiples International audience Humor us for a minute and do an online image search of the water cycle. How many diagrams do you have to scroll through before seeing any sign of humans? What about water pollution or cl...
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[Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [ADD1_IRSTEA]Systèmes aquatiques soumis à des pressions multiples International audience Humor us for a minute and do an online image search of the water cycle. How many diagrams do you have to scroll through before seeing any sign of humans? What about water pollution or climate change—two of the main drivers of the global water crisis? In a recent analysis of more than 450 water cycle diagrams, we found that 85% showed no human interaction with the water cycle and 98% omitted any sign of climate change or waterpollution (Abbott et al., 2019). Additionally, 92% of diagrams depicted verdant, temperate ecosystems with abundant freshwater and 95% showed only a single river basin. It did not matter if the diagrams came from textbooks, scientific articles, or the internet, nor if they were old or new; most showed an undisturbed water cycle, free from human interference. These depictions contrast starkly with the state of the water cycle in the Anthropocene, when land conversion, human water use, and climate change affect nearly every water pool and flux (Wurtsbaugh et al., 2017; Falkenmark et al., 2019; Wine and Davison, 2019). The dimensions and scale of human interference with water are manifest in failing fossil aquifersin the world’s great agricultural regions (Famiglietti, 2014), accelerating ice discharge from the Arctic (Box et al., 2018), and instability in atmospheric rivers that support continental rainfall (Paul et al., 2016).We believe that incorrect water cycle diagrams are a symptom of a much deeper and widespread problem about how humanity relates to water on Earth. Society does not understand how the water cycle works nor how humans fit into it (Attari, 2014; Linton, 2014; Abbott et al., 2019). In response to this crisis of understanding, we call on researchers, educators, journalists, lawyers, and policy makers to change how we conceptualize and present the global water cycle. Specifically, we must teach where water comes from, what determines its availability, and how ... |
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:insu-02170548v1 2024-02-11T10:01:48+01:00 A water cycle for the Anthropocene Abbott, Benjamin, W Bishop, Kevin Zarnetske, Jay P. Hannah, David Frei, Rebecca Minaudo, Camille Chapin, F.S. Krause, Stefan Conner, Lafe Ellison, David Godsey, Sarah, E Plont, Stephen Marçais, Jean Kolbe, Tamara Huebner, Amanda Hampton, Tyler Gu, Sen Buhman, Madeline Sayedi, Sayedeh Sara Ursache, Ovidiu Chapin, Melissa Henderson, Kathryn, D Pinay, Gilles Brigham Young University (BYU) Institutionen för Vatten Och Miljö Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Birmingham University of Birmingham Birmingham GéoHydrosystèmes COntinentaux (GéHCO EA6293) Université de Tours (UT) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) American Preparatory Academy Salem Campus Idaho State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan State University System Géosciences Rennes (GR) Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR) Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Technishe Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation (SAS) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST Water Research Foundation Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA) Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences and College of Life Sciences at Brigham Young University 607150 (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN-INTERFACES), European Union's Seventh Framework Program 2019-11 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02170548 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02170548/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-02170548/file/Abbott_et_al-2019-Hydrological_Processes.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13544 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/hyp.13544 insu-02170548 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02170548 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02170548/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-02170548/file/Abbott_et_al-2019-Hydrological_Processes.pdf doi:10.1002/hyp.13544 IRSTEA: PUB00063867 PRODINRA: 491955 WOS: 000483516800001 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0885-6087 EISSN: 1099-1085 Hydrological Processes https://insu.hal.science/insu-02170548 Hydrological Processes, 2019, 33 (23), pp.3046-3052. ⟨10.1002/hyp.13544⟩ drought Water Resources [SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13544 2024-01-24T17:35:55Z [Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [ADD1_IRSTEA]Systèmes aquatiques soumis à des pressions multiples International audience Humor us for a minute and do an online image search of the water cycle. How many diagrams do you have to scroll through before seeing any sign of humans? What about water pollution or climate change—two of the main drivers of the global water crisis? In a recent analysis of more than 450 water cycle diagrams, we found that 85% showed no human interaction with the water cycle and 98% omitted any sign of climate change or waterpollution (Abbott et al., 2019). Additionally, 92% of diagrams depicted verdant, temperate ecosystems with abundant freshwater and 95% showed only a single river basin. It did not matter if the diagrams came from textbooks, scientific articles, or the internet, nor if they were old or new; most showed an undisturbed water cycle, free from human interference. These depictions contrast starkly with the state of the water cycle in the Anthropocene, when land conversion, human water use, and climate change affect nearly every water pool and flux (Wurtsbaugh et al., 2017; Falkenmark et al., 2019; Wine and Davison, 2019). The dimensions and scale of human interference with water are manifest in failing fossil aquifersin the world’s great agricultural regions (Famiglietti, 2014), accelerating ice discharge from the Arctic (Box et al., 2018), and instability in atmospheric rivers that support continental rainfall (Paul et al., 2016).We believe that incorrect water cycle diagrams are a symptom of a much deeper and widespread problem about how humanity relates to water on Earth. Society does not understand how the water cycle works nor how humans fit into it (Attari, 2014; Linton, 2014; Abbott et al., 2019). In response to this crisis of understanding, we call on researchers, educators, journalists, lawyers, and policy makers to change how we conceptualize and present the global water cycle. Specifically, we must teach where water comes from, what determines its availability, and how ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Abbott ENVELOPE(-62.133,-62.133,-64.100,-64.100) Arctic Hydrological Processes 33 23 3046 3052 |