Climate Change and Water Resources: Hydrological Risk, Scarcity, Flooding, Ecosystems, and Adaptation for Global Water Security

Climate change is reshaping the water systems that societies depend on, turning warming into failed rains, falling aquifers, and rising floods. This book connects the physical science of a changing water cycle to the management, governance, and finance decisions that determine whether water remains secure.

- Understand how a warming atmosphere intensifies and reorganizes the global water cycle
- Analyze the detection, attribution, and projection of hydrological change under deep uncertainty
- Discover why water scarcity, drought, and groundwater depletion are accelerating worldwide
- Evaluate the drivers of escalating flood risk and compound hydrological hazards
- Examine how warming degrades water quality and threatens freshwater ecosystems
- Interpret the tightly coupled water, food, and energy systems under climate stress
- Evaluate adaptation strategies spanning infrastructure, demand management, and nature-based solutions
- Understand the governance, institutions, and finance that turn plans into resilient outcomes

Written for water professionals, policymakers, researchers, and graduate students, this book offers a rigorous, evidence-based framework for securing water in a warming world. Read it to move from reactive coping toward proactive resilience.