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dc.contributor.authorBakken, Tor Haakon
dc.contributor.authorJohnsen, Fredrikke
dc.contributor.authorKillingtveit, Ånund
dc.contributor.authorAlfredsen, Knut
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-23T12:16:59Z
dc.date.available2018-02-23T12:16:59Z
dc.date.created2015-08-15T08:26:04Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationWater resources management. 2015, 29 (14), 4919-4926.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0920-4741
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2486744
dc.description.abstractIPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources (2011) revealed potentially very high water consumption rates from hydropower production compared to other renewable technologies, but suffered from few studies and methodological problems. More recent studies present new estimates values far beyond those presented by IPCC, some claiming that hydropower is a large-scale water consumer, but do not provide a more consistent picture of the ‘true water consumption of hydropower’. We compiled data from ICOLD’s World Register of Dams, considered being the most extensive and complete global dataset of reservoirs and dams larger than 15 m containing description of close to 40 000 dams and reservoirs. We coupled this dataset with water scarcity information about the location of the individual projects and found that only very few reservoirs located in water-scarce areas are used exclusively for hydropower production or have that as their main purpose (fewer than 0.1 %). As the purpose of the majority of the reservoirs located in water-scarce areas are to collect water in the wet season to secure adequate supply of water for irrigation, domestic supply, industry and more purposes in the dry season, we find it fundamentally problematic to assign a water footprint to such an infrastructure, even though the purpose of these reservoirs might also be to produce electricity. Rather opposite - the fact that reservoirs increase the availability of water in the dry season make reservoirs needed. We conclude that assigning water footprint/consumption values of reservoirs will convey the wrong message to decision-makers unless the reservoirs’ effect on the availability of local water resources is fully accounted for. © 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrechtnb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagnb_NO
dc.titleAre Reservoirs Water Consumers or Water Collectors? Reflections on the Water Footprint Concept Applied on Reservoirsnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber4919-4926nb_NO
dc.source.volume29nb_NO
dc.source.journalWater resources managementnb_NO
dc.source.issue14nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11269-015-1104-x
dc.identifier.cristin1258165
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 193818nb_NO
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 215934nb_NO
dc.description.localcodeThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [Water Resources Management]. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11269-015-1104-xnb_NO
cristin.unitcode194,64,91,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for bygg- og miljøteknikk
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