Sustainability of global freshwater is under increasing threats due to changing hydroclimate and abstraction to satisfy rapidly growing water demand (Hall et al., 2014; Wada et al., 2014). Understanding how socio-economic change put additional stress on water resources and translating the scientific evidence into policy decisions are critical steps towards ensuring sustainable water use and allocation (Sadoff and Hall, 2015; Dadson et al., 2017). Regions where development is most acutely needed are often those where data to inform long-term investment decisions is most severely lacking. This paper analyses the drivers of water scarcity in a data-sparse river basin and offers insights that can inform and challenge approaches to water resources planning in data-sparse regions in other basins worldwide.
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