From the water management perspective, water scarcity is an unacceptable risk of facing water shortages to serve water demands in the near future. Water scarcity may be temporary and related to drought conditions or other accidental situation, or may be permanent and due to deeper causes such as...

<Para ID="Par1">Although water scarcity is a well-understood concept, it is difficult to define it precisely and furthermore, to address the water scarcity which requires a complicated set of water actions. In this work, with the aim to face the complexity of water scarcity, we propose the establishment of...</para>

This technical report consists of five parts. The introduction presents the situation of water scarcity and drought in the Mediterranean region and the linkages between the water framework directive and water scarcity. In Chapter I, the definitions and assessments of the different phenomena are...