Freshwater availability alone is not an indication of high or low water stress, as the concept of water stress compares the water consumption by all socio-economic activities with the renewable freshwater resources over a specified area and period. Thus, the spatial distribution of population and socio-economic activities, and the time of their water demand must be factored in as well to identify a lack of capacity to meet the local and temporal needs for water.
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