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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLESS THAN A YEAR from now, Ireland will join water-parched Australia and chewing gum-free Singapore by plunging into high-tech toiletry. Last November, Ireland's Environment Minister announced that dual-flush commodes...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTHESE STEPS serve as a basic guideline for creating a water soft path plan. This process can be undertaken at the community, regional, watershed and even provincial level. 1 Identify water services List all...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: R. Zeng, X. Cai To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Y. Wada, D. Wisser, M. F. P. Bierkens To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:Advances in Meteorology (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedThe accurate estimation of actual evapotranspiration can help improve the utilization of water resources and ease the ecological stress. Based on the generalized complementary principle proposed by Brutsaert in 2015, we...
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From:Mountain Research and Development (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIncreasing pressure on mountain water resources is making it necessary to address water governance issues in a transdisciplinary way. This entails drawing on different disciplinary perspectives, different types of...
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From:Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Vol. 39, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedExpansion and densification of urbanized areas can lead to increased pressure on an area's water and wastewater infrastructure. This paper presents an optimization model using geographic information systems to locate...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedExpanding irrigated cropping areas is one of Brazil's strategies to increase agricultural production. This expansion is constrained by water policy goals to restrict water scarcity to acceptable levels. We therefore...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 24, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn this study a novel data-driven analytical framework is proposed for cooperative strategies that ensure the optimal allocation of blue and virtual water transfers under different hydrological and economic conditions. A...
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From:International Journal of Agronomy (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedEstimating the conveyance efficiency of traditional irrigation schemes systems is very important. It is because of understanding the volume of water lost along with the transportation facility, enhancing water usage and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedFluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and water between ecosystem components and organisms have great impacts across levels of biological organization. Although much progress has been made in tracing carbon and nitrogen,...
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From:Advances in Geosciences (Vol. 27, Issue 27) Peer-ReviewedThe working group "Adaptation to Climate Change" at the Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (ATB) is introduced. This group calculates the water footprint for agricultural processes and farms,...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 20, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWhen assessing global water resources with hydrological models, it is essential to know about methodological uncertainties. The values of simulated water balance components may vary due to different spatial and temporal...
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From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 14, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe presence of vegetation alters hydrological cycles of ecosystems. Complex plant-soil interactions govern the fate of precipitation input and water transitions through ecosystem compartments. Disentangling these...
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From:Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Vol. 133, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed"Crops consume Large amounts of water, so is there enough to meet future demand or will supplies run out? ... Of the 110,000 [km.sup.3] of rain that falls annually on the earth's surface, 36 percent ends up in the sea;...
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From:Environmental Law (Vol. 36, Issue 4)At this fifty year mark commemorating Oregon's 1955 Act establishing the State Water Resources Board, an historic step toward legal protection for instream flows in the West, it is important to step back and take stock...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 62, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed[less than]http://water.usgs.gov/public/watuse/[greater than] Users can search this site by county or watershed to obtain information about local water use. The report also discusses water use trends for the nation....
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From:Natural Resources Journal (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Agriculture is the largest water user in the West, and it will play a central role in balancing water supplies with competing water demands in light of climate change. Water resources that are already over...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe storage coefficient that is used ubiquitously today was first defined by the analytical work of Theis and Jacob over a half-century ago. Inherent within this definition is the restriction of purely vertical...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 60, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEvery month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Center for Climate Prediction has a drought briefing by teleconference to identify the latest drought areas in North America. ARS scientists...