Hydro-social metabolism: Scaling of birth rates with regional water use

Hydro-social Metabolism: Scaling of birth rate with regional water use

opulation growth is often intuitively linked with proportionally higher use of fresh water resources. However, this implies that water use per capita does not change with population growth. We not only find that birth rates of regions are negatively related with its water use per capita (i.e., higher birth rate is associated with lower water use...