being water stressed will increase by 50% to 100% in areas already currently water stressed . Hotspot regions are those with large lowland populations depending on essential mountain water resource contributions and include river catchments such as the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Meghna, Yangtze, Nile, Niger, Indus, Euphrates-Tigris or Pearl   . Limited governance and integrated management of water resources, power and gender inequalities and level of disruption of local community practices also contribute to making risks more severe  . Consequences for hydropower are comparatively less severe than for agriculture and domestic/municipal use, although this depends on region and timing . For example, a study shows low risk to hydropower production in High Mountain Asia until the end of the century and even for warming levels beyond 3℃  .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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