Assessment of Ecological Water Scarcity in China(2016-2019)

BWR and water consumption data(BWF) from 2016 to 2019 were collected from Provincial water resource bulletin (Ministry of Water Resources of China 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). GWF was calculated by pollutant loads of each province from China’s Environmental Statistical Yearbooks (National Bureau of Statistics of China 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), and pollutant included total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), ammonia-nitrogen (NH₃-N), and chemical oxygen demand (COD).