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From:Mountain Research and Development (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWater rights and social justice in the Mekong region are vast topics. This book uses a theoretical concept of social justice, "what is good for society" (p 4), to explore a range of issues linked to the governance of...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 184, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedProgress toward the Millennium Development Goals for safe drinking water have exceeded expectations but those for sanitation remain largely in the open toilet, according to a joint World Health Organization (WHO) and...
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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: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: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:New Mexico Journal of ScienceJ.L. Fowler [18] Abstract Agricultural production in New Mexico depends heavily upon water for irrigation. Competition for water continues to intensify as population growth and rising demands stretch supplies to...
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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: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: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: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...
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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:Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental (Vol. 23, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedSob condições de déficit hídrico e/ou estresse salino as culturas sofrem diversos distúrbios fisiológicos, que levam à redução no crescimento e, consequentemente, decréscimos em seus rendimentos agronômicos. Neste...
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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:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-ReviewedSustainability of winter wheat yield under dryland conditions depends on improving soil water stored during fallow and its efficient use. A 3-year field experiment was conducted in Loess Plateau to access the effect of...
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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...