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Yongtai Ren, Shuai Wei, Kun Cheng and Qiang Fu
Research on water pricing is important to effectively address the water resource crisis. The agricultural industry has the greatest water-saving potential. Using Heilongjiang Province, the main grain-producing region in China, as an example, an agricultu...
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Dámaris Núñez-Gómez, Pilar Legua, Vicente Lidón, Agustín Conesa, Juan José Martínez-Nicolás and Pablo Melgarejo
With a progressively decreasing availability of water for irrigation, the utilization of lower agronomic quality water sources is becoming more prevalent. Compounds such as sodium and boron, due to their impact on crop development and production, are gai...
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Gerard Arbat and Daniele Masseroni
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Xiaoyan Zhu and Guangyao Wang
Agricultural cooperatives greatly influence agricultural and rural modernization in China. Based on 381 farmer samples in the arid Tarim River Basin, this empirical study aimed to construct an index system for the exploration of the relationship between ...
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Mengyang Wu, Simeng Cui, Liting Qiu, Pingping Zhang and Xinchun Cao
Although irrigation systems largely sustain global agricultural production, their efficiency is often alarmingly low. While irrigation water (blue water) is critical for the water-saving irrigation of rice with a high water demand, the process and effici...
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Enrique Bonet and María Teresa Yubero
In Spain, irrigated agriculture is the most water-intensive sector, consuming around of 80% of water resources. Moreover, irrigation water distribution systems are the infrastructure by which one-third of water resource losses take place. Monitoring and ...
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Haradhan Kolya and Chun-Won Kang
Face masks have become an essential commodity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their use rises daily. Excessive face mask use will likely continue to combat the virus and bacterial impacts in the long term. Afterward, used face masks are hazardous to th...
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Yue Jiang, Yue Zhang and Hong Li
Anaerobic fermentation of organic waste, such as livestock manure, in biogas projects is an environmentally friendly and effective treatment method. The resulting biogas, mainly composed of methane, is a combustible gas with energy properties, while the ...
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Enrique Bonet, Beniamino Russo, Ricard González, Maria Teresa Yubero, Manuel Gómez and Martí Sánchez-Juny
Freshwater scarcity has driven the integration of technological advancements and automation systems in agriculture in order to attempt to improve water-use efficiency. For irrigation canals, water-use efficiency is, in great measure, limited by the perfo...
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Ireneusz Cymes, Ewa Draganska and Zbigniew Brodzinski
The study analyzed the structure of water shortages in plant crops and the available groundwater resources that can be used to satisfy these needs. The research was carried out in Braniewo poviat, which can be considered representative of the conditions ...
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Lei Zhang, Yunfei Liu, Changjun Yin, Dongping Xue, Dongwei Gui and Zhiming Qi
Farmland landscape fragmentation is an important problem affecting the agricultural modernization process in China. However, farmland landscape fragmentation leads to land being wasted and increases management costs, particularly in the dryland?s oasis r...
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German Santacruz-De León, Janete Moran-Ramírez and José Alfredo Ramos-Leal
This paper analyzes the behavior of drought in the face of the impact of climate change and groundwater quality and its implications for agricultural production in a semi-arid area of northeastern Mexico. The pluviometric information of two stations from...
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José Manuel Jurado Almonte and José Díaz Diego
In the last two decades of the 20th century, irrigation in Andalusia experienced a historic expansion as a result of the transfer of political powers from the State to regional authorities and, thanks to its application in Andalusia, to pass, among other...
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Soha M. Mostafa, Osama Wahed, Walaa Y. El-Nashar, Samia M. El-Marsafawy, Martina Zelenáková and Hany F. Abd-Elhamid
This paper presents a comprehensive study to assess the impact of climate change on Egypt?s water resources, focusing on irrigation water for agricultural crops, considering that the agriculture sector is the largest consumer of water in Egypt. The study...
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Jose Luis Muñoz Marcillo
The need to satisfy the nutritional requirements of the Ecuadorian population, added to the public policy of increasing the income of foreign exchange to maintain the economic model of the country through the export of agricultural products, has increase...
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Delia Ventura, Simona Consoli, Salvatore Barbagallo, Alessia Marzo, Daniela Vanella, Feliciana Licciardello and Giuseppe L. Cirelli
This study reports an up-to-date summary of the principal barriers still limiting reclaimed water use for agriculture in Italy, and particularly in Sicily. Moreover, it provides a geographic informative system (GIS)-based procedure for evaluating the pot...
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Xiaotong Zhu, Guangpeng Zhang, Kaiye Yuan, Hongbo Ling and Hailiang Xu
In recent years, the large-scale development of land and water resources has led to a conflict between water supply and demand. Especially in arid regions, fragile ecosystems and continuous farmland expansion have threatened the ecological and social sec...
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Michael J. Haverstock, Ali Madani, Hambaliou Baldé, Andrew C. VanderZaag, Robert J. Gordon
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Constructed wetlands (CW) have gained recognition as a management option for the treatment of various agricultural wastewaters. This study involved the design, construction, and initial evaluation of a wetland-reservoir-irrigation (WRI) system. The syste...
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Alfonso Expósito and Julio Berbel
This paper analyses the agricultural irrigation water use in a closed basin and the impacts on water productivity, and examines how they have affected the ?closure? process of the Guadalquivir river basin observed in recent decades. Following a period of...
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Alfonso Expósito, Julio Berbel
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This paper analyses the agricultural irrigation water use in a closed basin and the impacts on water productivity, and examines how they have affected the ?closure? process of the Guadalquivir river basin observed in recent decades. Following a period of...
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