#Po river basin: a few numbers (#climatechangeimpacts #climatechange #qgis #datavisualization )
Channel: Map Clip
Date: 08/11/2022

Let's have a quick tour in the present and the future of this river!

This post is part of a serie that will explore european freshwater resources, their present and future. Will we be prepared to face the increasing water scarcicy?

If you want to know more, wait for the next video or check the link below to download the sources i've used!



REFERENCES
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a link to some shared sources on google drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1wTWEEyQyheuzsvpk73WLjdkAYQTgtbUb

DEFINITIONS
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Evapotranspiration: the process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere, given by the combined action of evaporation and plant's transpiration

Water stress: refers to the ability, or lack thereof, to meet the human and ecological demand of water. 
Water Exploitation Index Plus (WEI+) can be used to measure water stress, and is given by the total water use  divided by the freshwater resource of a region. WEI+ consider returned water (i.e. water returned to a river after having cooled a power plant) but does not consider water quality. 
Values above 20%  denote a "moderate water stress", and above 40% a "severe water stress".

DATA NERD STUFF
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1) The shades of blue used in the map represent the main landuse: urban (dark), agricolture (light) and forests (medium). They came from the Corine Land Cover database
2) The river network is derived from Copernicus EU-Hydro database. link thickness is not proportional to the water flow (couldn't find data), but to the number of paths from all the starting points to the end of the river (least-cost-path algorithm). The result is quite sounding, even if not extactly true. 

CREDITS
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Full list at the end of the video

Soundtrack
Aurea Carmina by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4982-aurea-carmina
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license