2016年美赛E题厦门大学O奖论文.pdf

Team Control Number For office use only For office use only 49630 T1 ________________ F1 ________________ T2 ________________ F2 ________________ Problem Chosen T3 ________________ F3 ________________ T4 ________________ E F4 ________________ 2016 MCM/ICM Summary Sheet Summary Our planet is getting thirstier and thirstier. Water scarcity has become an increasingly hard but urgent problem. To make contributions to solve the water problems, we proposed a metric model to identify the ability of each country to manage water scarcity, and offered solutions to a country considered water over-loaded. First we developed our metric, Total Scarcity Metric, and divided it into Physical Scarcity Metric (affected by environmental factors and population) and Economic Scarcity Metric (affected by social factors other than population) by the two causes of water scarcity. The detailed factors were selected to make a difference. We made some adjustments to an indicator we found widely-used in the literatures, and determine Physical Scarcity Metric