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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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Dominikus Boli Watomakin,Baltra Agusti Pramajuri,Suyoto Suyoto
Pág. pp. 88 - 109
Clean water is an essential basic requirement for humans. In eastern Indonesia, especially the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Maluku and Southeast Sulawesi, the need for clean water is quite urgent. The socio-cultural conditions, geographical con...
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Asad Sarwar Qureshi
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are located in the driest part of the world with an annual per capita water availability of 500 m3 compared to the world average of 6000 m3. Agricultural water demand, which is more than 80% of the total water...
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Ali M. Almaktoof, Atanda K. Raji, Mohammed T.E. Kahn, Mohamed Ali Ekhlat
The use of photovoltaics (PVs) to power reverse osmosis (RO) desalination can potentially break the dependence of this desalination process on conventional energy sources (oil, coal, electricity from national grid), reduce operational costs, and improve ...
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Angeliki Mentzafou, Yiannis Panagopoulos and Elias Dimitriou
Water quality indices that describe the status of water are commonly used in freshwater vulnerability assessment. The design of river water quality monitoring programs has always been a complex process and despite the numerous methodologies employed by e...
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Daniel Matulic, ?eljko Andabaka, Sanja Radman, Goran Fruk, Josip Leto, Jak?a Ro?in, Mirta Rastija, Ivana Varga, Tea Tomljanovic, Hrvoje Ceprnja and Marko Karoglan
Agrivoltaics and aquavoltaics combine renewable energy production with agriculture and aquaculture. Agrivoltaics involves placing solar panels on farmland, while aquavoltaics integrates photovoltaic systems with water bodies and aquaculture. This paper e...
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G. Thomas LaVanchy, Sarah T. Romano, Matthew J. Taylor
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Despite being a water-rich country, Nicaragua struggles to secure clean water access for many of its residents. In addition to distributional and water quality issues, a prolonged drought affecting all regions of the country has compounded preexisting go...
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Giada Felisa, Valentina Ciriello and Vittorio Di Federico
Environmentally sensitive areas along coastlines may be adversely affected by saltwater intrusion (SI), a condition which can be worsened by extensive groundwater extraction. Given the uncertainty of problem parameters, the risk of contamination of the v...
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Markus Berger and Matthias Finkbeiner
As freshwater is a vital yet often scarce resource, the life cycle assessment community has put great efforts in method development to properly address water use. The International Organization for Standardization has recently even launched a project aim...
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Sandra Afonso, Juliana Nogueira, Carlos Cavaleiro, Fernanda M. L. Ferreira and Matilde Moreira-Santos
Essential oils (EOs) from Thymus mastichina (EO-thyme) and Helichrysum italicum (EO-curry) have wide commercial applications, but little is known about their ecotoxicity to aquatic life. We evaluated the lethal toxicity of both EOs toward standard freshw...
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Ibrahim Al Khoury, Laurie Boithias and David Labat
Karst water resources represent a primary source of freshwater supply, accounting for nearly 25% of the global population water needs. Karst aquifers have complex recharge characteristics, storage patterns, and flow dynamics. They also face a looming str...
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Diwakar Prakash, Chandra Bhushan Tiwary and Ram Kumar
Hooghly River, a ~460 km long distributary of the Ganga River, passes through a highly industrialized Metropolis-Kolkata in West Bengal, India, and eventually empties into the Bay of Bengal at Gangasagar. To determine the patterns and drivers of plankton...
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Javed Akhtar, Ahmad Sana, Syed Mohammed Tauseef and Hitoshi Tanaka
The Sultanate of Oman is an arid country in the Arabian Peninsula suffering from insufficient freshwater supplies and extremely hot weather conditions. The only source of recharge is rainfall, which is scarce and varies with space and time, for the aquif...
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Marlia M. Hanafiah, Mohammed Hasan, Khalisah K. Razman, Siti N. Harun and Zaini Sakawi
Conventional farming practices can provide higher agricultural yields through the extensive use of fertilizers, pesticides, and other inputs. These practices have been associated with severe environmental effects, such as eutrophication, acidification, e...
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Juliana Barros and Sahadevan Seena
Deprivation of protection for aquatic hyphomycetes is disturbing because they are key players in freshwater ecosystems across the globe. To attain a more holistic conservation paradigm for biodiversity in freshwaters, it is necessary to broaden our ecolo...
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Henrique J. O. Pinho and Dina M. R. Mateus
Considering the increasing pressure on freshwater resources due to the constant increase in water consumption and insufficient wastewater control and treatment, recovering wastewater is a path to overcoming water scarcity. The present work describes the ...
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John Day, Reed Goodman, Zhongyuan Chen, Rachael Hunter, Liviu Giosan and Yanna Wang
Due to increasing water use, diversion and salinization, along with subsidence and sea-level rise, deltas in arid regions are shrinking worldwide. Some of the most ecologically important arid deltas include the Colorado, Indus, Nile, and Tigris-Euphrates...
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Ian White, Tony Falkland and Taaniela Kula
UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 challenges small island developing states such as the Kingdom of Tonga, which relies on variable rainwater and fragile groundwater lenses for freshwater supply. Meeting water needs in dispersed small islands under change...
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Jessica K. Hauda, Steven I. Safferman and Ehsan Ghane
Phosphorus (P) is a valuable, nonrenewable resource in agriculture promoting crop growth. P losses through surface runoff and subsurface drainage discharge beneath the root zone is a loss of investment. P entering surface water contributes to eutrophicat...
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Maja Vurnek, Andrijana Brozincevic, ?eljko Rendulic, Kazimir Miculinic, Vesna Vukadin, Ognjen ?kunca
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Plitvice Lakes National Park (PLNP) is the oldest protected area in Croatia (since 1949) and was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in1979. It is an area of outstanding universal value consisting of a freshwater ecosystem of 16 lakes divided by tuf...
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