Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically … efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated … agriculture for economic development such as in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Due to ill-managed water resources and the dominance of …

With time there has been an unpredictable climate change affecting the requirement of water for agriculture. Survival … of agriculture has become a matter of concern with an efficient management of water. The aim of the chapter is to design … a conceptual framework in sustaining water for agriculture in the era of climate change. The authors in the present …

The Chinese government has been using the water efficiency target to manage commercial, institutional, and industrial … water use across the country. This paper argues that the water efficiency target may unintentionally influence provincial … administrators’ preferences in tightening water regulation in productive cities to satisfy the targets enforced by the central …

; and changes in river flow with impacts on hydropower and the ability to meeting water requirements for municipal … level rise; increased temperature and changes in precipitation resulting in changes in crop water requirements and yields … future climates for Vietnam. A set of biophysical models were employed to project the impacts on water supply, water demand …

.g., irrigation schemes, hydropower plants, roads, etc.) has been questioned considerably in recent years. For this reason, efforts to … method for quantifying the impacts on biophysical measures (surface water supply, crop production, flooding events, and … hydropower generation) of the Zambezi River Basin countries using a large pool (6,800) of climate projections, which are based on …