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ReviewHeliyon2023

Water resources availability, sustainability and challenges in the GCC countries: An overview.

Mohsen Sherif, Muhammad Usman Liaqat, Faisal Baig, Mohammad Al-Rashed

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Review in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mohsen SherifNational Water and Energy Center, UAE University, P.O. Box 15551, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Muhammad Usman LiaqatDepartment of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Brescia-DICATAM, Via Branze, 43, 25123 Brescia BS, Italy.
Faisal BaigNational Water and Energy Center, UAE University, P.O. Box 15551, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Mohammad Al-RashedWater Resources Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, P.O. Box 24885, 13109, Safat, Kuwait.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries include Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates. The GCC countries are located in an arid region. They have limited renewable water resources due to scarcity of rainfall. This paper provides the most recent and accurate quantitative and qualitative assessment of available water resources and demands in the GCC countries. The annual renewable surface water, desalinated capacity, wastewater treatment capacity, and per capita water consumption in the GCC countries are assessed. The possible impacts of climate change are discussed. The annual renewable surface water, desalinated capacity, and wastewater treatment capacity in the GCC countries are estimated as 4.14, 26.4, and 10.07 billion m

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climate changeGCC countriesmanagementsustainabilitywater resources

Identifiers

PMID37817990
PMCPMC10560785

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