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Global freshwaters are severely depleted. Provision of improved water infrastructure technologies and innovation can address challenges posed by water shortages to environmental sustainability. China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project has gen...
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Angela Renata Cordeiro Ortigara, Melvyn Kay and Stefan Uhlenbrook
In 2015, UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): ?Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all?. Commonly known as the ?water goal?, SDG 6 w...
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Kayla J. Lucier and Manzoor Qadir
Fog water collection is an emerging opportunity to combat local water shortages in water-scarce areas where sustainable access to water is unreliable, but fog events are frequent. Since fog water systems are implemented within or near communities, they e...
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Sharon B. Megdal, Susanna Eden and Eylon Shamir
Water governance and stakeholder engagement are receiving research attention for their role in formulating and implementing solutions to the world?s critical water challenges. The inspiration for this Special Issue came from our desire to provide a platf...
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Gengyu He, Jingjing Yan, Jinghua Sha, Ci Song and Shuai Zhong
Water shortage and water pollution are important factors restricting sustainable social and economic development. As a typical coal resource-exhausted city and a node city of the South-to-North Water Transfer East Route Project in China, Zaozhuang City?s...
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Gengyu He, Jingjing Yan, Jinghua Sha, Ci Song, Shuai Zhong
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Water shortage and water pollution are important factors restricting sustainable social and economic development. As a typical coal resource-exhausted city and a node city of the South-to-North Water Transfer East Route Project in China, Zaozhuang City?s...
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Wei Wang, Deshan Tang, Melissa Pilgrim, Jinan Liu
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Water resource crises are an increasing threat to human survival and development. To reveal the nature of water resource issues under changing situations, the water resources system needs to be studied from a macro and systematic perspective. This report...
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Mohamad Ali Fulazzaky
The increased demands for water and land in Indonesia as a consequence of the population growth and economic development has reportedly have been accelerated from the year to year. The spatial and temporal variability of human induced hydrological change...
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Ying Li, Liu Du and Yung-Ho Chiu
Water scarcity is increasingly being recognized as a global concern. Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG-6) was established by the United Nations to address water resource governance within its sustainable development framework. This study employs the en...
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Peiyue Li and Jianhua Wu
This editorial introduces the Special Issue titled ?Water Resources and Sustainable Development,? underscoring the critical need for sustainable management of water resources in light of increasing demand, climate change impacts, and pollution. The issue...
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Chulsang Yoo, Eunsaem Cho, Munseok Lee and Soeun Kim
Rainwater harvesting is generally assumed to collect rainwater from the roof or ground. However, this study shows that this structural limitation of rainwater harvesting can be overcome by employing a building wall. The rainfall on a building wall is cal...
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Tarekegn Dejen Mengistu, Tolera Abdisa Feyissa, Il-Moon Chung, Sun Woo Chang, Mamuye Busier Yesuf and Esayas Alemayehu
Regional information on stream discharge is needed in order to improve flood estimates based on the limited data availability. Regional flood estimation is fundamental for designing hydraulic structures and managing flood plains and water resource projec...
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Fong-Zuo Lee, Jihn-Sung Lai and Tetsuya Sumi
Sustainable water resources of reservoirs depend on preserving the valuable storage capacity. Sediment management is a crucial task in reservoir operations. Extreme floods caused by typhoon events have brought a massive amount of sediments from the water...
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Niranjani P. K. Semananda and Guna A. Hewa
The Magnitude and occurrence of extreme low flow events are needed in setting minimum flows to protect the instream users. As the true distribution is not normally known, the identification of the most appropriate distribution function that describes the...
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Dimitrios E. Alexakis
The achievement of sustainable development goals in groundwater resources related to water quality issues is a critical question in many regions. This study aims to combine powerful tools for helping stakeholders and policymakers achieve sustainable deve...
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Kakhramon Djumaboev, Ahmad Hamidov, Oyture Anarbekov, Zafar Gafurov and Kamshat Tussupova
The rapidly growing population in Uzbekistan has put massive pressure on limited water resources, resulting in frequent water shortages. Irrigation is by far the major water use. Improving irrigation water use through the institutional change of establis...
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Kakhramon Djumaboev, Ahmad Hamidov, Oyture Anarbekov, Zafar Gafurov, Kamshat Tussupova
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The rapidly growing population in Uzbekistan has put massive pressure on limited water resources, resulting in frequent water shortages. Irrigation is by far the major water use. Improving irrigation water use through the institutional change of establis...
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Baohui Men, Huanlong Liu, Wei Tian and Haoyue Liu
Water resources are not only the essence of human life, but also an important prerequisite which ensures the economic and social development of a country or city. Due to chronically global overexploitation, water crises have started to emerge. China, for...
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Karletta Chief, Alison Meadow and Kyle Whyte
Indigenous peoples in North America have a long history of understanding their societies as having an intimate relationship with their physical environments. Their cultures, traditions, and identities are based on the ecosystems and sacred places that sh...
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