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Changing global cropping patterns to minimize national blue water scarcity [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2020
Feeding a growing population with global natural-resource constraints becomes an increasingly challenging task. Changing spatial cropping patterns could contribute to sustaining crop production and mitigating water scarcity.
H. Chouchane   +3 more
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The 2022 extreme drought in the Yangtze River Basin: Characteristics, causes and response strategies

open access: yesRiver, 2022
An extreme drought occurred in the Yangtze River Basin in 2022, inflicting huge impacts nationwide. To provide a reference for drought prevention and mitigation, this paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the drought in the Yangtze River Basin in ...
Miaomiao Ma   +11 more
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Marginal cost curves for water footprint reduction in irrigated agriculture: guiding a cost-effective reduction of crop water consumption to a permit or benchmark level [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2017
Reducing the water footprint (WF) of the process of growing irrigated crops is an indispensable element in water management, particularly in water-scarce areas.
A. D. Chukalla   +3 more
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Carbon footprint of India’s groundwater irrigation

open access: yesCarbon Management, 2020
India has an intricate nexus of groundwater irrigation, energy and climate. Subsidized electricity supply has led to unregulated groundwater pumping, causing a decrease in groundwater level and increase in carbon emissions.
Abhishek Rajan   +2 more
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Streambank Legacy Sediments in Surface Waters: Phosphorus Sources or Sinks?

open access: yesSoil Systems, 2020
Streambank legacy sediments can contribute substantial amounts of sediments to Mid-Atlantic waterways. However, there is uncertainty about the sediment-bound P inputs and the fate of legacy sediment P in surface waters.
Shreeram Inamdar   +4 more
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Grey water footprint reduction in irrigated crop production: effect of nitrogen application rate, nitrogen form, tillage practice and irrigation strategy [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2018
Grey water footprint (WF) reduction is essential given the increasing water pollution associated with food production and the limited assimilation capacity of fresh water.
A. D. Chukalla   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cooperative and adaptive transboundary water governance in Canada's Mackenzie River Basin: status and prospects

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2016
Canada's Mackenzie River Basin (MRB) is one of the largest relatively pristine ecosystems in North America. Home to indigenous peoples for millennia, the basin is also the site of increasing resource development, notably fossil fuels, hydroelectric power
Michelle Morris, Rob C. de Loë
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular fingerprinting of particulate organic matter as a new tool for its source apportionment: changes along a headwater drainage in coarse, medium and fine particles as a function of rainfalls [PDF]

open access: yesBiogeosciences, 2018
Tracking the sources of particulate organic matter (POM) exported from catchments is important to understand the transfer of energy from soils to oceans.
L. Jeanneau, R. Rowland, S. Inamdar
doaj   +1 more source

The transformation of water and sewage management in Poland and Ukraine in the light of socio-economic and political conditions

open access: yesBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2022
The study aims to evaluate and compare the transformations in water and sewage management that have taken place in Poland and Ukraine since the early 1990s. This required the collection of an appropriate dataset.
Adam Piasecki
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability of groundwater through community-driven distributed recharge: An analysis of arguments for water scarce regions of semi-arid India

open access: yesJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2020
Study Region: Semi-Arid Regions of Marathawada, Vidarbha and Saurashtra in IndiaStudy Focus: To understand and evaluate the impact of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) efforts.New Hydrological Insights for the Region: Since 1990, the Saurashtra region of ...
Praharsh M. Patel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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