About the Authors

Camino Liquete

camino.liquete@gmail.com

Affiliation Water Resources Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Chiara Piroddi

Affiliation Water Resources Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Evangelia G. Drakou

Affiliation Land Resource Management Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Leigh Gurney

Affiliation Water Resources Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Stelios Katsanevakis

Affiliation Water Resources Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Aymen Charef

Affiliation Maritime Affairs Unit, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Benis Egoh

Affiliation Water Resources Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL CP EGD LG SK AC BE. Performed the experiments: CL CP EGD LG SK AC BE. Analyzed the data: CL CP EGD LG SK AC BE. Wrote the paper: CL CP EGD LG SK AC BE.