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Elizabeth Anne Thilmany, Serena Newton, Paul Goeringer and Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein
Water reuse, the beneficial use of highly treated municipal wastewater (reclaimed water), is expanding throughout the United States (U.S.); however, there are currently no federal reclaimed water use regulations, only guidelines. As a result, state polic...
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Julio Berbel, Carlos Gutiérrez-Martín and Julia Martin-Ortega
Economics plays a double role in the field of water management, firstly as a powerful analytical tool supporting water allocation and policy decisions, and secondly in the form of policy instruments (water pricing, markets, etc.). This Special Issue pres...
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A. Ertug Ercin and Arjen Y. Hoekstra
This study develops water footprint scenarios for Europe for 2050, at the country level, based on projections regarding population and economic growth, production and trade patterns, consumption patterns (diets and bioenergy use) and technological develo...
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A. Ertug Ercin, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
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This study develops water footprint scenarios for Europe for 2050, at the country level, based on projections regarding population and economic growth, production and trade patterns, consumption patterns (diets and bioenergy use) and technological develo...
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Andrea M. Bassi, Zhuohua Tan and Sophie Goss
To date there has been limited research on integrated water resource management, specifically regarding investments, from a global perspective, largely due to the complexity of the problem and to generally local water management practices. Water demand a...
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Ashok K. Sharma, Peter Sanciolo, Amir Behroozi, Dimuth Navaratna and Shobha Muthukumaran
Integrated urban water management approaches (IUWM) are implemented to address challenges from increases in water demand as a result of population growth and the impact of climate change. IUWM aims to utilize all water resources (stormwater, wastewater, ...
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Carolina Rodríguez, Bárbara García, Caterin Pinto, Rafael Sánchez, Jennyfer Serrano and Eduardo Leiva
Water scarcity is a problem of global relevance that is affecting more and more people in the world. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have around 35% of the world?s renewable water resources. However, the management of water resources and inequality...
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Hadi Heidari, Baptiste Francois and Casey Brown
Reservoir expansion is commonly considered an adaptation strategy to attenuate water shortage conditions. In many locations in the United States, there are ongoing discussions about the effectiveness and feasibility of reservoir expansion with regard to ...
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José A. Gómez-Limón, Carlos Gutiérrez-Martín and Nazaret M. Montilla-López
Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource worldwide, suggesting that water rationing methods should be revised to improve water allocation efficiency, especially during cyclical scarcity events (droughts). The proportional rule is the most widely...
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Borrego-Marín María M., Expósito A. and Berbel J.
This study describes an economic model in the Guadalquivir river basin (Southern Spain) that considers inter-sectoral and hydrological effects of changes in water use as a response to various water-pricing policy scenarios. The main economic variables in...
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Alessandra Bonoli, Emanuela Di Fusco, Sara Zanni, Ilaria Lauriola, Valentina Ciriello and Vittorio Di Federico
The increasing scarcity of water is encouraging strategies in water saving and urban water management systems devoted to reducing natural resource consumption and environmental impact. At household and urban scales, there is an increasing interest in ons...
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Sha Lou, Wenrui Huang, Shuguang Liu and Guihui Zhong
Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of the population increase over the last century. Water scarcity is one of the main problems facing the world, especially the scarcity of clean and safe drinking water. Scarcity of drinking ...
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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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Hyowon Kim, Jaewoo Son, Seockheon Lee, Stef Koop, Kees Van Leeuwen, Young June Choi and Jeryang Park
Many cities are facing various water-related challenges caused by rapid urbanization and climate change. Moreover, a megacity may pose a greater risk due to its scale and complexity for coping with impending challenges. Infrastructure and governance also...
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Abdikani Abdullahi Mo?allim, Md Rowshon Kamal, Hadi Hamaaziz Muhammed, Nasehir Khan E. M. Yahaya, Mohamed Azwan b. Mohamed Zawawe, Hasfalina Bt. Che Man and Aimrun Wayayok
A quantitative estimation of the major components of the field water balance provides management decisions on how the scheme ought to be operated to ensure better distribution of irrigation water and increased delivery performance. Therefore, in this stu...
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Kui Zhu, Zibo Xie, Yong Zhao, Fan Lu, Xinyi Song, Lu Li and Xiaomeng Song
Green water accounts for two-thirds of precipitation, and the proportion could be even higher in dry years. Conflicts between water supply and demand have gradually become severe in the Hai River Basin (HRB) due to the socio-economic development. Thus, t...
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Pedro García-Caparrós, Alfonso Llanderal, Ivana Maksimovic and María Teresa Lao
The blending of drainage with water of low electrical conductivity and the sequential reuse of the drainage water are innovative technologies to manage salts in agricultural drainage. Plants of Cucumis melo were grown in coir grow bags, and Rosmarinus of...
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Sangmin Shin, Seungyub Lee, David R. Judi, Masood Parvania, Erfan Goharian, Timothy McPherson and Steven J. Burian
Over the past few decades, the concept of resilience has emerged as an important consideration in the planning and management of water infrastructure systems. Accordingly, various resilience measures have been developed for the quantitative evaluation an...
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Joshua N. Edokpayi, Elizabeth T. Rogawski, David M. Kahler, Courtney L. Hill, Catherine Reynolds, Emanuel Nyathi, James A. Smith, John O. Odiyo, Amidou Samie, Pascal Bessong and Rebecca Dillingham
Consumption of microbial-contaminated water can result in diarrheal illnesses and enteropathy with the heaviest impact upon children below the age of five. We aimed to provide a comprehensive analysis of water quality in a low-resource setting in Limpopo...
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Jing Liu, Yu Zhang and Zhongbo Yu
If products were traded from regions with relatively high water productivity to regions with relatively low water productivity, water saving could be achieved. In this study, two indices—physical water-saving efficiency (volume of water savings per...
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