Will building new reservoirs always help increase the water supply reliability? – insight from a modeling-based global study

Yuan Zhuang1, Fuqiang Tian2, Wondmagegn Yigzaw3, Mohamad Issa Hejazi4, Hong-Yi Li3, Sean William Donald Turner4 and Chris R Vernon4, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, (3)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States