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Lily M. Conrad, Alexander G. Fernald, Steven J. Guldan and Carlos G. Ochoa
Quantifying groundwater recharge from irrigation in water-scarce regions is critical for sustainable water management in an era of decreasing surface water deliveries and increasing reliance on groundwater pumping. Through a water balance approach, our s...
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Daniele Zaccaria, Maria Teresa Carrillo-Cobo, Aliasghar Montazar, Daniel H. Putnam and Khaled Bali
In California, alfalfa is grown on a large area ranging between 325,000 and 410,000 hectares and ranks among the thirstiest crops. While the hay production industry is often scrutinized for the large usage of the state?s agricultural water, alfalfa is a ...
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Nils Siering and Helmut Grüning
Stormwater tree pits with storage elements enable the irrigation of urban trees and can potentially act as decentralized rainwater retention basins. This paper mainly focuses on analyzing this potential. Field tests were conducted to investigate the irri...
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Yujiang He, Xianwen Li and Menggui Jin
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Venkataramana Sridhar, Syed Azhar Ali and David J. Sample
The Mekong River Basin is one of the world?s major transboundary basins. The hydrology, agriculture, ecology, and other watershed functions are constantly changing as a result of a variety of human activities carried out inside and by neighboring countri...
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Shihong Yang, Zewei Jiang, Xiao Sun, Jie Ding and Junzeng Xu
The role of carbon pool of biochar as a method of long-term C sequestration in global warming mitigation is unclear. A two-year field study was conducted to investigate the seasonal variations of CO2 emissions from water-saving irrigation paddy fields in...
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Zhenhua Wang, Qingyong Bian, Jinzhu Zhang and Bo Zhou
Studying water?fertilizer coupling effects in a drip irrigation system is critical for sustainable agricultural development in arid areas, such as that of Xinjiang in China, to find out the optimized water and fertilizer management. Therefore, a two-year...
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Jeffrey G. Arnold, Katrin Bieger, Michael J. White, Raghavan Srinivasan, John A. Dunbar and Peter M. Allen
Decision tables have been used for many years in data processing and business applications to simulate complex rule sets. Several computer languages have been developed based on rule systems and they are easily programmed in several current languages. La...
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Rodrigo Joaquín Contreras and Ignacio Escuder-Bueno
Dams and reservoirs have always been of interest to human beings, playing a crucial role given the importance of securing water for sanitary use, irrigation, navigation, flood control and energy generation, among others. The main focus of this article is...
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Sonja Teschemacher, Daniel Bittner and Markus Disse
Retention and detention basins are engineering constructions with multiple objectives; e.g., flood protection and irrigation. Their performance is highly location-dependent, and thus, optimization strategies are needed. LOCASIN (Location detection of ret...
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Sikhululekile Ncube, Annie Visser and Lindsay Beevers
River systems provide diverse ecosystem services (ES), such as flood regulation (regulating), fresh water (provisioning), nutrient cycling (supporting), and recreation (cultural), among others. The construction of infrastructure (e.g., for hydropower, ir...
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Omaid Najmuddin, Golam Rasul, Abid Hussain, David Molden, Shahriar Wahid and Bijan Debnath
Rice is the most important crop for food security and livelihoods of the rural population in Bihar, India. In spite of good soil and water resources, rice water productivity (WP) is very low in Bihar. Trends in WP and key factors influencing WP over 20 y...
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Rupon Basumatary
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Empirical studies that have recently built up in stock particularly with the growing awareness about the climate change since the 1970s show that people?s agricultural activities are disastrously affected, among others, by natural calamities of which flo...
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Soon-Kun Choi, Jaehak Jeong and Min-Kyeong Kim
The Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model is widely used for evaluating agricultural conservation efforts and their effects on soil and water. A key component of APEX application in Korea is simulating the water quality impacts of rice ...
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Nutchanart Sriwongsitanon, Kritsanat Surakit and Peter R. Hawkins
A water balance model was developed for Bung Boraphet reservoir, a large flood plain lake in Thailand, from daily measurements over three inflow outflow cycles between 2003 and 2006. Measurement error was 10% (as one standard deviation) of the total meas...
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José-Luis Molina, Santiago Zazo, Fernando Espejo, Carmen Patino-Alonso, Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez and Domingo Zarzo
Floods are probably the most hazardous global natural event as well as the main cause of human losses and economic damage. They are often hard to predict, but their consequences may be reduced by taking the right precautions. In this sense, hydraulic inf...
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Md Abdullah Al Mehedi, Marzieh Khosravi, Munshi Md Shafwat Yazdan and Hanieh Shabanian
River flow prediction is a pivotal task in the field of water resource management during the era of rapid climate change. The highly dynamic and evolving nature of the climatic variables, e.g., precipitation, has a significant impact on the temporal dist...
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Jiaxi Wang and Bo Hong
The degradation of densely populated river delta environments due to the accelerating rise in sea level can affect the availability of freshwater for municipal supplies, irrigation, and industrial use. A fully calibrated three-dimensional numerical model...
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Yoganand Korgaonkar, David Phillip Guertin, Thomas Meixner and David C Goodrich
Green Infrastructure (GI) practices are being implemented in numerous cities to tackle stormwater management issues and achieve co-benefits such as mitigating heat island effects and air pollution, as well as water augmentation, health, and economic bene...
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Huynh Vuong Thu Minh, Ram Avtar, Pankaj Kumar, Dat Q. Tran, Tran Van Ty, Hari Charan Behera and Masaaki Kurasaki
Along with rapid population growth in Vietnam, there is an increasing dependence on groundwater for various activities. An Giang province is known to be one of the agricultural intensification areas of The Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). This study aimed ...
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