An integrated framework for examining groundwater vulnerability in the Mekong River Delta region.

ABSTRACT: The Mekong River provides water, food security, and many other valuable benefits to the more than 60 million Southeast Asian residents living within its basin. However, the Mekong River Basin is increasingly stressed by changes in climate, land cover, and infrastructure. These changes can affect water quantity and quality and exacerbate related hazards such as land subsidence and saltwater intrusion, resulting in multiple compounding risks for neighboring communities. In this study, we demonstrate the connection between climate change, groundwater availability, and social vulnerability by linking the results of a numerical groundwater model to land cover and socioeconomic data at the Cambodia-Vietnam border in the Mekong River Delta region. We simulated changes in groundwater availability

SUBMITTER: Powlen KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10588840 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature