“Egypt is a gift of the Nile,” wrote Herodotus, and indeed, without the Nile there would be no Egypt as the world knows it. Egypt is mainly dependent on the flow in the Nile River (with an agreed share of 55.5 BCM) and it receives about 1.3 BCM rainf...
Drought impacts not only nature, but also the socioeconomic system and results from the imbalance of water supply and demand. It is necessary to estimate the ability of drought mitigation on the basis of water allocation. In this research, the drough...
Lack of attention to spatial and temporal cross-scale dynamics and effects could be understood as one of the lacunas in scholarship on river basin management. Within the water-climate-food-energy nexus, an integrated and inclusive approach that recog...
The continuous growth of the social economy and the accelerated urbanisation process have led to a rising increase in the demand for water resources in river basins. The uneven temporal and spatial distribution of water resources has further exacerba...
Fluid produced/injected volumes from/into underground natural formations and their spatial allocation play a key role in addressing the superposition of anthropogenic subsidence effects, but the definition of coherent datasets is usually very challen...
The allocation of water flowing through a river-with-reservoirs system to optimally meet spatially distributed and temporally variable demands can be conceived as a Network Flow Optimisation (NFO) problem and addressed by Linear Programming (LP). In...
Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution of irrigation water requirements is significant to realize the rational allocation of water resources and also serves as the basis for analyzing agricultural water-saving potential. This study refer...
Efficient allocation and utilization of water resources are critical for the sustainable development of agriculture in arid regions, particularly those heavily reliant on irrigation. Xinjiang, one of China’s major agricultural regions, faces si...
In the context of climate change and the intensification of population activities, differences in regional water resources are the main drivers leading to these resources’ unbalanced development. This problem can be addressed by exploring spati...
The appraisal of crop water requirements (CWR) is crucial for the management of water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid regions where irrigation represents the largest consumer of water, such as the Doukkala area, western Morocco. Simple an...
Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the total water vapor flux transported by vegetation and surface soil to the atmosphere. It is an important component of water and heat regulation, and has an impact on plant productivity and water resource managemen...
The allocation of water flowing through a river-with-reservoirs system to optimally meet spatially distributed and temporally variable demands can be conceived as a network flow optimization (NFO) problem and addressed by linear programming (LP). In...
Financial support for agriculture has mainly focused on grain production, while insufficient efforts have been made to ensure water security, potentially intensifying water pressure in grain production (WPGP). This study applies the entropy weight Te...
Predicting short-term urban water demand is essential for water resource management and directly impacts urban water resource planning and supply–demand balance. As numerous factors impact the prediction of short-term urban water demand and pre...
Drought is a natural phenomenon in which the natural amount of water in an area is below the normal level. It has negative impacts on production in numerous industries and people’s lives, especially in the context of climate change. Investigating the...
Clarifying the trade-offs and synergies between land use and ecosystem services in major water source river basins is enhancing regional land resource distribution and safeguarding water-related ecological environments. The Danjiangkou Reservoir Basi...
Driven by sea-level rise and frequent compound coastal flooding, accurate inundation simulation is essential for disaster mitigation and urban planning. To address the topologically disconnected overestimation errors inherent in the traditional batht...
Increasing plant diversity commonly enhances standing biomass and other ecosystem functions (i.e., carbon fluxes, water use efficiency, herbivory). The standing biomass is correlated with vegetation volume, which describes plant biomass allocation wi...
Taiwan average annual rainfall is approximately 2500 mm. In particular, 80% of the rainfall occurs in summer, and most of the heavy rainfall is caused by typhoons. The situation is worsening as climate change results in uneven rainfall, both in spati...
Agriculture in Xinjiang, a region in arid northwest China, is almost entirely dependent on irrigation, leading to significant supply–demand contradictions. This study addresses the spatial and temporal mismatches between water supply and demand...
Freshwater resources are limited and uneven in their spatiotemporal distribution, and substantial increases in water demand from rapidly developing economies and concentrated populations place pressure on the available water. Research on the inequali...
The sustainable use of water resources has become increasingly crucial given the present water supply and demand situation. In this study, the degree of sustainable water resource utilization in Harbin City from 2014 to 2021 was calculated using a fu...
As a typical inland river basin, Heihe River basin has been experiencing severe water resource competition between different land cover types, especially in the middle stream and downstream areas. Terrestrial actual evapotranspiration (ETa), inclu...
Soil salinization is one of the main hazards affecting the sustainable development of agriculture in the Hetao Irrigation District (HID) of Inner Mongolia. To grasp the water and salt transport patterns and spatial–temporal distribution charact...
The rapid socio-economic development and expanding human-induced hydrological alteration have strengthened the interactions between the social and hydrologic systems. To assess regional water supply security under changing water supply and demand con...
Water environmental capacity (WEC) is an essential indicator for effective environmental management. The designed low water flow condition is a prerequisite to determine WEC and is often based on the stationarity assumption of low water flow series....
The Jianghan Plain (JHP) is a key agricultural area in China where efficient agricultural water use (AWUE) is vital for sustainable water management, food security, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. This study introduces a novel AWUE...
Within-field soil physical and chemical heterogeneity may affect spatio-temporal crop performance. Managing this heterogeneity can contribute to improving resource use and crop productivity. A simulation experiment based on comprehensive soil and cro...
Understanding the dynamics of ecosystem services (ESs) in arid landscapes and socio-ecological systems is crucial for sustainable development and human well-being. This study uses the Invest model to quantify the spatio-temporal changes in four key e...
In the present study, we choose the Weishan Lake, one of important water transfer and storage lakes on the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWD) in China, to clarify how the community structure and assemblage-environment...
Although intertidal-zone delineation and shoreline or coastal geomorphological classification have been extensively investigated, relatively few studies have integrated these complementary information layers within a unified and operational remote-se...
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Timely understanding and quantitative analysis of the changing trend in natural ecosystems in arid and semi-arid areas and their response to the ecological water supply process are of great significance for maintaining the health of oasis ecosystems....
Water scarcity is a widespread problem in arid and semi-arid regions such as the western Mediterranean coastal areas. The irregularity of the precipitation generates frequent droughts that exacerbate the conflicts among agriculture, water supply and...
Affected by the temporal and spatial changes of natural resources, human activities, and social economic system policies, there are many uncertainties in the development, utilization, and management process of irrigation district agricultural water r...
Efforts to address water scarcity have traditionally relied on changing the spatial and temporal availability of water through water importation, storage, and conveyance. More recently, water managers have invested heavily in improving water use effi...
To solve the water use conflicts between agriculture and ecosystems in arid and semiarid areas, a multi-objective trade-off analysis method was applied to determine the environmental flows (e-flows) for the Yellow River Estuary, by considering the te...
Spatial and temporal characteristics of surface water resources (e.g., extension, connectivity, seasonality) are key elements in water allocation, climate and hydrological regulation, ecosystem functioning, and the food-energy-water nexus. Changes in...
Quantifying industry consumption or production of resources, wastes, emissions, and losses—collectively called flows—is a complex and evolving process. The attribution of flows to industries often requires allocating multiple data sources...
Taitema Lake, located in the lower reaches of the Tarim River and the Cherchen River, is one of the most important ecological barriers in Ruoqiang County. The amount of water in Taitema Lake plays an important role in maintaining a healthy cycle with...
Hydrological connectivity is crucial for maintaining the stability and function of regional ecology and is a fundamental link to solving regional water and ecological environmental problems. This study developed an integrated visualization analysis m...
In this study, an agroforestry ecosystem project (AEP) is developed for confronting the conflict between agricultural development and forest protection. A fuzzy stochastic programming with Laplace scenario analysis (FSL) is proposed for planning wate...
In the context of climate change, the hydrological processes and water resource system vulnerabilities in inland river basins of arid regions are intensifying. Understanding their evolutionary patterns and driving mechanisms is crucial for sustainabl...
Irrigation guarantee capacity is the critical factor in evaluating the development level of irrigated agriculture and is also a future development trend. It is necessary to carry out scientific planning and reasonable allocation of irrigation water r...
Agricultural water resources face growing pressure from rising food demand and environmental changes. In large agricultural irrigation areas, water and land use is closely linked to energy consumption, carbon emissions, and food production. Therefore...
Increase in irrigated area, driven by demand for more food production, in the semi-arid regions of Asia and Africa is putting pressure on the already strained available water resources. To cope and manage this situation, monitoring spatial and tempor...
The Lower Ganjiang River is a multi-branch delta with highly uneven spatial and temporal flow distribution, and conventional static diversion or threshold-based operation fails to stabilise the water level or optimise flow allocation under varying in...
Water shortage and water pollution have become the key factors restricting the sustainable development of animal husbandry in China. In this study, the water footprint model was used to analyze the water resource carrying capacity and water environme...
Evapotranspiration (ET) involves actual water consumption directly from the land surface; however, regional ET maps are usually neglected during water management and allocation. In this study, an integrated satellite-based ET monitoring approach with...
To investigate the spatial-temporal effects of land-use changes on ecological quality and future trends, an integrated framework combining the Dyna-CLUE model and the remote sensing ecological index (RSEI) was developed. Land-use changes from 2000 to...
An unsteady fully three-dimensional model of Lake Binaba (a shallow small reservoir) in semi-arid Upper East Region of Ghana has been developed to simulate its temperature dynamics. The model developed is built on the Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes...
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