2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/23/2019 | 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | HUMAN DOMINATION OF THE GLOBAL WATER CYCLE EXCLUDED FROM DEPICTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS | 150 G
HUMAN DOMINATION OF THE GLOBAL WATER CYCLE EXCLUDED FROM DEPICTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS
Human water use, climate change, and land conversion have created a water crisis for billions of individuals and many ecosystems worldwide. Global water stocks and fluxes are estimated empirically and with computer models, but this information is conveyed to policymakers and researchers by water cycle diagrams. Here, we compiled a new synthesis of the global water cycle, which we compared with 464 water cycle diagrams from around the world. Though human freshwater appropriation now equals half of global river discharge, only 15% of water cycle diagrams depicted human interaction with water. Only 2% of diagrams showed climate change or water pollution, two of the central causes of the global water crisis. 95% of diagrams depicted a single catchment, precluding representation of teleconnections such as ocean-land interactions and continental moisture recycling. These inaccuracies correspond with specific dimensions of water mismanagement, suggesting that flaws in water diagrams reflect and reinforce misunderstanding of global hydrology by policymakers, researchers, and the public. Correcting depictions of the water cycle will not solve the global water crisis, but reconceiving this symbol could support equitable water governance, sustainable development, and planetary thinking in the Anthropocene.
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Benjamin Abbott
(), Brigham Young University, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, benabbott@byu.edu;
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Kevin Bishop
(), Uppsala University, Kevin.Bishop@geo.uu.se;
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Jay Zarnetske
(), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, jpz@msu.edu;
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Camille Minaudo
(), E.A. 6293 GeHCO, François Rabelais de Tours University, Tours, France, camille.minaudo@univ-tours.fr;
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F. S. Chapin iii
(), University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, fschapiniii@alaska.edu;
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Stefan Krause
(), School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, U.K. , S.Krause@bham.ac.uk;
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David Hannah
(), University of Birmingham, UK, D.M.HANNAH@bham.ac.uk;
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Sarah Godsey
(), Idaho State University, godsey@isu.edu;
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Stephen Plont
(), Virginia Tech, plontste@vt.edu;
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Rebecca Frei
(), Brigham Young University, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, beccafrei@gmail.com;
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Tyler Hampton
(), University of Waterloo, tyler.hampton@uwaterloo.ca;
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Madeline Buhman
(), Brigham Young University, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, madeline.buhman@gmail.com;
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Sayedeh Sayedi
(), Brigham Young University, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, sarasayedi91@gmail.com ;
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Gilles Pinay
(), CNRS, gilles.pinay@ens-lyon.fr;
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