Kekurangan air berlaku apabila sumber bekalan air tawar tidak mampu memenuhi keperluan penduduk setempat dengan secukupnya. Keadaan ini terzahir melalui kurangnya kepuasan terhadap keperluan diluahkan mengehendaki bekalan air, saingan ekonomi untuk mutu dan kuantiti air, pertelingkahan antara pengguna, kehilangan air bawah tanah yang tiada patah balikya, serta impak negatif terhadap alam sekitar.[1]

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  1. ^ "Coping with water scarcity. An action framework for agriculture and food stress" (PDF). Pertubuhan Makanan dan Pertanian Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu. 2012. Dicapai pada 31 Disember 2017.

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  • An International Food Policy Research Institute book about the intersection of water policy, globalization and food security: Ringler, C., Biswas, A., and Cline, S., eds. 2010. Global Change: Impacts on Water and Food Security. Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Steven Solomon (2010). Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization. Harper. m/s. 608. ISBN 978-0-06-054830-8.
  • Alexander Bell (2009). Peak Water : Civilisation and the world's water crisis. Edinburgh: Luath. m/s. 208. ISBN 1-906817-19-7.
  • Peter H. Gleick, penyunting (2009). The World's Water 2008–2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington D.C. : Island Press. m/s. 402. ISBN 1597265055.
  • Maude Barlow (2007). Blue covenant : the global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton. m/s. 196. ISBN 978-1-59558-186-0.
  • Richard Heinberg (2007). Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. Gabriola, BC : New Society Publishers. m/s. 213. ISBN 978-0-86571-598-1.
  • Engelbert, Ernest A.; Ann Foley Scheuring, penyunting (c. 1984). Water Scarcity: Impacts on Western Agriculture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Jameel M. Zayed. "No Peace Without Water – The Role of Hydropolitics in the Israel-Palestine Conflict". London.

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