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Mngereza Miraji, Jie Liu and Chunmiao Zheng
River basins around the world face similar issues of water scarcity, deficient infrastructure, and great disparities in water availability between sub-regions, both within and between countries. In this study, different strategies under the Water Evaluat...
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Enrique Bonet and María Teresa Yubero
In Spain, irrigated agriculture is the most water-intensive sector, consuming around of 80% of water resources. Moreover, irrigation water distribution systems are the infrastructure by which one-third of water resource losses take place. Monitoring and ...
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Jerry W. Knox and Keith Weatherhead
Rising demands and competition for water resources within all sectors are placing increasing pressure on the environment. Almost all direct abstractions in England require a licence (permit) from the regulatory authority, the Environment Agency. Assessin...
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George B. Frisvold and Dari Duval
The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people in the U.S. Southwest, with river basin spanning 250,000 square miles (647,497 km2). Quantitative water rights assigned to U.S. states, Mexico, and tribes in the Colorado Basin exceed annual streamfl...
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Heleen Jalink and Carel Dieperink
In times of climate change, periods of drought will occur more frequently. This causes challenges for water use, ranging from limitations on the navigability of water courses, limited availability of water for irrigation and drinking water supply, reduce...
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Somayeh Emami and Hossein Dehghanisanij
The recent problems of Lake Urmia (LU) are caused by extensive and complex socio-ecological factors that require a comprehensive approach to consider the relationships between users and identify failure factors at the basin level. For this purpose, an ag...
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Enrique Bonet, Beniamino Russo, Ricard González, Maria Teresa Yubero, Manuel Gómez and Martí Sánchez-Juny
Freshwater scarcity has driven the integration of technological advancements and automation systems in agriculture in order to attempt to improve water-use efficiency. For irrigation canals, water-use efficiency is, in great measure, limited by the perfo...
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Andrés Goyburo, Pedro Rau, Waldo Lavado-Casimiro, Wouter Buytaert, José Cuadros-Adriazola and Daniel Horna
Water is an essential resource for social and economic development. The availability of this resource is constantly threatened by the rapid increase in its demand. This research assesses current (2010?2016), short- (2017?2040), middle- (2041?2070), and l...
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Behrouz Pirouz, Stefania Anna Palermo, Gianfranco Becciu, Umberto Sanfilippo, Hana Javadi Nejad, Patrizia Piro and Michele Turco
Climate change is a significant problem that many countries are currently facing, and green roofs (GRs) are one of the suitable choices to confront it and decrease its impacts. The advantages of GRs are numerous, such as stormwater management, thermal ne...
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Efthymia Stathi, Aristeidis Kastridis and Dimitrios Myronidis
Drought is one of the most complex and poorly understood catastrophes on the planet. Between the Greek mainland and Turkey, there is an area of Greece known as the South Aegean Islands, that experiences water supply issues. As a result, there are issues ...
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