The water demand is increasing across all sectors, driven by intensive agriculture, overexploitation and urbanization, tourism, and industrial development. This trend is set to intensify in the context of climate variability, with an anticipated rise...
To lessen the strain on Harbin’s water resources and enhance the environment, it is crucial to analyze the key determining factors for the use of unconventional water resources in the city and to allocate unconventional water reasonably among v...
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, calling for access to safe water and sanitation for all by the year 2030 supports the efforts in water-scarce countries and regions to go beyond conventional resources and tap unconventional water supplies to...
Irrigated agriculture plays a fundamental role as a supplier of food and raw materials. However, it is also the world’s largest water user. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of studies analyzing agricultural irrigation f...
19 August 2022
The problem of shortage in freshwater resources in many countries around the world has led to the use of unconventional water resources such as treated wastewater and agricultural drains water to bridge the gap between the demand and supply. However,...
Global water resources are under pressure due to increasing population and diminishing conventional water resources caused by global warming. Water scarcity is a daunting global problem which has prompted efforts to find unconventional resources as a...
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, th...
The currently reported bottom water sealing materials and fracturing technologies can hardly simultaneously achieve the high production and low water cut of gas reservoirs due to the complexity of various formation conditions. Therefore, without cont...
The interest in reusing wastewater for irrigation is being popularized in most countries. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different wastewater and nitrogen fertilizer on soil fertility and plant quality, as well as to ident...
Within a context of scarce water resources for agriculture, rainwater harvesting constitutes a promising alternative that has been studied by different disciplines in recent years. This article analyses the dynamics of global research on rainwater ha...
Unconventional water is an important water resource for agricultural utilization in the drought and water shortage of Northeast China. Additionally, exploration in making full use of it is an important way to alleviate water shortage in China. This p...
As one of the important policy measures to promote water conservation and efficient utilization, the evaluation of water resources tax reform policy regarding its water saving and economic impact (WSEI) is a fundamental prerequisite for policy implem...
The increase of the global population and the requirement of food production and agricultural development, combined with a lack of water resources, have led to human attention being drawn to unconventional water sources, including saline water and wa...
The development and utilization of unconventional water resources has become a strategy to alleviate the agricultural water crisis in many countries and regions. To understand the research progress, hot spots, and future trends in the field of unconv...
Measuring the carrying capacity of water resources and identifying obstacle factors are critical prerequisites for the rational allocation of regional water resources and the high-quality development of economic society. This study took Longnan City,...
The issues of wastewater treatment and the reuse of water are of great importance, especially in areas where the shortage of conventional resources is a structural problem, as it is in the case of Spain. Wastewater reuse is a valid mechanism to avoid...
Unconventional water resources (e.g., saline water, etc.) for irrigation as a promising supplementary water source can alleviate the freshwater shortage in the agriculture of red soil areas in Southern China. It should be noted that the presence of s...
Hebei Province of China is facing a severe water resource shortage, making it urgent to formulate economical and effective water conservation policies. However, few studies have focused on analyzing the resource and economic impacts of a water policy...
The rational utilization of unconventional water sources is of great significance to areas where conventional water resources are scarce, and water resource allocation is an important way to realize the rational distribution of multiple water sources...
In order to realize the dynamic regulation and control of regional water resources and alleviate the imbalance between supply and demand of regional water resources, on the basis of the demand of refined management of water resources, the dynamic Gen...
6 December 2022
Water scarcity limits the coordination between economic development and ecological protection of arid regions. This study presented the consumption pattern and future challenges for water resources and proposed sustainable use strategies for water se...
Irrigation is the primary agricultural utilization of water resources worldwide, and it produces 36% of the food. The quality of irrigation water influences crop growth and food safety. The coastal river delta region supplies huge area lands for deve...
The spatial footprint of unconventional (hydraulic fracturing) and conventional oil and gas development in the Marcellus Shale region of the State of Pennsylvania was digitized from high-resolution, ortho-rectified, digital aerial photography, from 2...
Hydraulic fracturing is a core stimulation technology for enhancing hydrocarbon production. However, it faces significant technical bottlenecks in unconventional reservoirs. These bottlenecks include poor adaptability to high-temperature and high-sal...
The arid regions of Northwest China are facing water shortages and ecological fragility. Making full use of unconventional water is one of the effective ways of solving water issues and achieving high-quality regional development. The high cost of un...
Groundwater and surface water have been the primary sources of our public water supply around the world. However, rapid population and economic growth, as well as global climate change, are posing major threats to the quality and quantity of these wa...
China is a maritime power. However, as its economy develops rapidly, China lacks freshwater resources. The water resources per capita are low in China and are less than a quarter of the global mean value. The development and utilization of desalinati...
28 August 2018
Access to water, in sufficient quantities and of sufficient quality is vital for human health. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in General Comment 15, drafted 2002) argued that access to water was a condition for...
This study aims to achieve coordination between regional economic development and ecological environmental protection and to mitigate issues such as competition for water use among industries and significant disparities between water supply and deman...
Coalbed methane is a major unconventional resource that has been exploited commercially for decades in the southern Qinshui Basin of China. The hydrogeochemical characteristics of coal reservoir water play a key role in the exploration and developmen...
Intelligent algorithms and decision models are key tools for improving the efficiency and adaptability of multi-objective optimization and allocation, and for achieving sustainable utilization of water resources. This study takes Hancheng City as a c...
Water supply is strategic for the development of society. The water distribution in nature follows patterns linked to geographic and territorial issues. Climate fluctuations aggravate shortage problems in semi-arid regions. This study aims to develop...
Gradually replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy constitutes a long-term strategy for achieving sustainable development. In the short term, it is necessary to explore unconventional oil and gas resources to support current economic sustainabili...
Mine water is both wastewater and a valuable unconventional water resource, and its recycling is crucial for the sustainable development of coal-resource-based cities. In response to the complex interactions among multiple stakeholders in the process...
The impact on water resources caused by municipal wastewater discharges has become a critical and ever-growing environmental and public health concern. So far, interventions have been positioned largely ‘at the end of the pipe’, via the introduction...
Unconventional oil reservoirs are tight and often host micro-nano pores, and huff and puff is usually adopted for such reservoirs, mainly utilizing the mechanism of spontaneous imbibition. The penetration depth into the matrix during imbibition is on...
Shale gas reservoirs are unconventional resources with great potential to help meet energy demands. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have been extensively used for the exploitation of these unconventional resources. According to engineeri...
Spain is the leading citrus producer in the European Union, with the Segura River Basin in southeastern Spain playing a crucial role in this industry. However, the impact of local agricultural production on water appropriation has been overlooked. Th...
With the continuous growth in global energy demand, research and development of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs have become crucial in the field of energy. This study focuses on the Chang 3 reservoir of the Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin...
Coastal karst aquifers are common in the Mediterranean basin. With their significant potential storage capacity, they are an attractive groundwater resource in areas where the water demand is the most important. They discharge either at the coastal z...
Computer simulation techniques are gaining a central role in molecular pharmacology. Due to several factors, including the significant improvements of traditional molecular modelling, the irruption of machine learning methods, the massive data genera...
Not only is solving freshwater resource shortages effective but also an important measure for realizing the sustainable development of agriculture through the development and use of unconventional water resources. This pot experiment investigated the...
The development of unconventional resources continues to be propelled by innovations that enhance economic efficiency and maximize reservoir contact within operational constraints. Among the most recent of these is the U-shaped, or “horseshoe,&...
With the rapid economic and social development and the increasingly severe water shortage situation, the sustainable utilization of unconventional water resources is of great significance. As one of the “second water sources”, the full ut...
Unconventional heavy oil ores (UHO) have been considered an important part of petroleum resources and an alternative source of chemicals and energy supply. Due to the participation of water and extractants, oil–solid separation (OSS) and oil&nd...
Tight gas is an unconventional resource abundantly found in low-porosity, low-permeability sandstone reservoirs. Production can be significantly reduced due to water production during the development process. Therefore, it is necessary to predict wat...
Heavy oil and bitumen supply the vast majority of energy resources in Canada. Different methods can be implemented to produce oil from such unconventional resources. Surfactants are employed as an additive to water/steam to improve an injected fluid’...
Oil shale is an unconventional energy resource with high nitrogen content. In this study, XPS, GC–MS and ESI FT-ICR MS were carried out to investigate the nitrogen compound migration during pyrolysis, with thermal bitumen as the intermediate. T...
Excess associated gas from unconventional wells is typically flared while excess produced water is injected underground. In this work, flare gas recovery is integrated with produced water desalination and a solar pre-heater. The solar module with a b...
Irrigators are increasingly challenged to maintain or even increase production using less water, sometimes of poorer quality, and often from unconventional sources. This paper describes the main features of a newly developed software-based Decision S...
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