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Maurizio Iaccarino
Water, essential for the biology of living organisms, is also important for agriculture, for the organization of social life and for culture. In this review we discuss the interrelationship between water availability and human population size. The total ...
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Jean-Noël Ehounou, Brou Kouamé, Mathias G. Tahi, Emmanuel K. Kassin, Charles S. Dékoula, Guy F. Yao, Hypolith K. Kouadio, Angelo E. B. N?guessan, Nagnin Soro
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David D. J. Antia
Globally, more than 50 million ha of arable land is irrigated with saline water. The majority of this saline irrigation water is derived from saline groundwater. Global irrigation requirements may increase from 270 million ha in 2014 to about 750 million...
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Laura Essak and Aritra Ghosh
The world is transitioning towards a net zero emissions future and solar energy is at the forefront of the transition. The land use requirements to install solar farms present a barrier for the industry as population density increases and land prices ris...
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Elahe Akbari, Seyed Kazem Alavipanah, Mehrdad Jeihouni, Mohammad Hajeb, Dagmar Haase and Sadroddin Alavipanah
Oceans/Seas are important components of Earth that are affected by global warming and climate change. Recent studies have indicated that the deeper oceans are responsible for climate variability by changing the Earth?s ecosystem; therefore, assessing the...
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Imran Ali Lakhiar, Haofang Yan, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Shuaishuai Deng, Rongxuan Bao, Chuan Zhang, Tabinda Naz Syed, Biyu Wang, Rui Zhou and Xuanxuan Wang
Plastic products in plant production and protection help farmers increase crop production, enhance food quality, and reduce global water use and their environmental footprint. Simultaneously, plastic has emerged as a critical ecological issue in recent y...
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G. Kalarikovilagam Srinivasan and Oliver Bertram
Hybrid laminar flow control or HLFC design is a complex and multi-disciplinary process, which demands a thorough understanding of all aspects from a global systems viewpoint. The objective of the paper is to present a preliminary design of important comp...
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Carlos Andrés Peña-Guzmán, Joaquín Melgarejo, Daniel Prats, Andrés Torres and Sandra Martínez
Urban water management is increasingly important given the need to maintain water resources that comply with global and local standards of quantity and quality. The effective management of water resources requires the optimization of financial resources ...
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Norman Uphoff and Frank B. Dazzo
Irrigated rice production is one of the most essential agricultural activities for sustaining our global population, and at the same time, one of the agricultural sectors considered most eco-unfriendly. This is because it consumes a larger share of avail...
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Andrea Momblanch, Ian P. Holman and Sanjay K. Jain
Global change is expected to have a strong impact in the Himalayan region. The climatic and orographic conditions result in unique modelling challenges and requirements. This paper critically appraises recent hydrological modelling applications in Himala...
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Kwong Fai A. Lo and Suranjith Bandara Koralegedara
Cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to water-related issues due to rapid urbanization, installation of complex infrastructure and changes in rainfall patterns. This study aims at assessing the impacts of climate change on rainwater harvesting sys...
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Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Jan Minx, Yim Ling Siu, Ashok Chapagain, Yang Yu, Dabo Guan and John Barrett
The Water Footprint, as an indicator of water consumption has become increasingly popular for analyzing environmental issues associated with the use of water resources in the global supply chain of consumer goods. This is particularly relevant for countr...
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Lucas de Lima Casseres dos Santos, Jean Bruno Melo Silva, Luisa Soares Neves, Natalia dos Santos Renato, Julia Moltó, Juan Antonio Conesa and Alisson Carraro Borges
The scarcity of natural resources makes it essential to develop products that meet environmental requirements. This is also true for the water and wastewater treatment business, where even consolidated processes, such as coagulation and flocculation, mus...
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Antoni Sánchez-Ortiz, Miriam Lampreave and Maria Assumpta Mateos
Climate variability in Mediterranean viticultural areas, primarily attributed to climate change, will significantly impact water requirements, consequently leading to changes in irrigation management. The primary aim of this study was to assess the respo...
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Mattia Di Sessa, Pier Paolo Riviera, Lucia Tsantilis, Leonardo Urbano, Orazio Baglieri and Ezio Santagata
In recent decades, the international community has recognized the detrimental impact of the construction industry on the environment. In recent years, the use of recycled aggregates has attracted increasing interest as a sustainable and cost-effective so...
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Hadis Pakdel-Khasmakhi, Majid Vazifedoust, Dev Raj Paudyal, Sreeni Chadalavada and Md Jahangir Alam
Understanding the effects of global change and human activities on water supplies depends greatly on surface water dynamics. A comprehensive examination of the hydroclimatic variations at the transboundary level is essential for the development of any ad...
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Liguo Weng, Yiming Xu, Min Xia, Yonghong Zhang, Jia Liu and Yiqing Xu
Changes on lakes and rivers are of great significance for the study of global climate change. Accurate segmentation of lakes and rivers is critical to the study of their changes. However, traditional water area segmentation methods almost all share the f...
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Mohammad Akrami, Alaa H. Salah, Mahdieh Dibaj, Maxime Porcheron, Akbar A. Javadi, Raziyeh Farmani, Hassan E. S. Fath and Abdelazim Negm
The need for sustainable desalination arises from fast-occurring global warming and intensifying droughts due to increasing temperatures, particularly in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions. Lack of water resources has meant that the countri...
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Umberto Coronetta and Enrico Sciubba
In the last few years, waste-energy recovery systems based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) have gained increased attention in the global energy market as a versatile and sustainable technology for thermo-electric energy conversion from low-to-medium t...
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Florian Appel, Franziska Koch, Anja Rösel, Philipp Klug, Patrick Henkel, Markus Lamm, Wolfram Mauser and Heike Bach
The availability of in situ snow water equivalent (SWE), snowmelt and run-off measurements is still very limited especially in remote areas as the density of operational stations and field observations is often scarce and usually costly, labour-intense a...
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