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-dependent agriculture accounts for more than 85% of surface and ground water withdrawals in the SLV. Inflows of the Rio Grande and the … Luis Valley (SLV) at the Lobatos gauge station, in relation to changes in local environmental drivers. Irrigation …</Superscript> after 1924, coinciding with increases in surface water extractions. Additional reductions of about 50 hm …
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Water availability in adequate quantities and qualities is a fundamental requirement for tourism. In the Mediterranean …, one of the world’s leading tourist destinations, water availability is subject to modest and erratic precipitation figures … to new technologies such as desalination or increasing efficiency in water use. A third and yet little explored …
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Debate about irrigation development of water resources in northern Australia has been hampered by a lack of … quantitative information to enable accurate assessment of the volume of water that could potentially be regulated in the ‘North … this paper we present simple calculations to estimate a representative irrigation requirement and the potential exploitable …
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of Vietnam: (1) Rice production from wastewater during winter-spring crop; (2) % of irrigation water demand satisfied by …
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Central Asia is facing an unprecedented juxtaposition of regional climate- and water-related issues, emphasised by a … changing climate. We investigate the potential impact of long-term climate change on the availability of water resources in the … Amu Darya River, one of the two major rivers that feed the Aral Sea, and its effect on irrigation in the region. Using a …
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to adopt a water-efficient drip irrigation system or a sprinkler irrigation system under uncertainty about future … system in the planning period 2010 to 2040. We then investigate how alternative policies, (a) irrigation water pricing, and … equipment cost are granted. Also water prices do not increase the probability to adopt a drip irrigation system, but rather …
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actions are needed to ensure water availability, suitability and sustainability. Yet, among these options treated wastewater …Pressing water scarcity in Jordan rapidly increases the demands of marginal water resources for the agricultural sector …. Water management studies reveal that no single source could fully solve the nation’s water shortage and many integrated …
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crop area from remote sensing and potential evapotranspiration based estimates of irrigation water requirements for cotton … in future evaporation conditions will be of similar nature, water use for irrigation is expected to decrease over 40 … construction should lead to improved management, and by extension, sustainability of water resources in the region. Copyright …
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between agriculture and energy sectors as much as upstream and downstream water uses of countries. Copyright Springer Science …The literature on transboundary water resources allocation modelling is still short on encompassing and analyzing … Model (ITETRBM), which is a linear programming based transboundary water resources allocation model maximizing net economic …
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This study investigates the water availability scenario along Tokyo Metropolitan Area (TMA) under future climatic … changes. TMA, which depends largely on the adjacent Tone river for its water supply, suffers from water shortage almost once … on the overall water availability along the Tone river and its impact on TMA. Historical trend in hydro …
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