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water demand is expected to increase by 19 %. Differentiated by land use classes, Bavaria's irrigation demand increases by … results displays a high degree of correspondence with the current irrigation regions of Bavaria. Thus, a high water demand of … Verschiebung zugunsten des Winterhalbjahres sowie Steigerungen der Verdunstungsraten lassen die Verfügbarkeit von Wasser als …
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. Downstream Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan need irrigation water in summer, primarily to grow cotton. Regional agreements obliging … due to lack of trust between the parties. Striving for self-sufficiency in irrigation water, Uzbekistan initiated new … river. Upstream Kyrgyzstan operates the Toktogul reservoir which generates hydropower demanded mainly in winter for heating …
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This paper seeks to address the problem of conveying changes in open-water quality to the public within surveys such as … within stated preference valuation studies. This is achieved through the creation of a new water quality ladder designed to … measures of water quality so as to enhance the transferability of values derived from using such a scale. This paper also seeks …
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The agreement signed by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian government on 2 November 2022 offers a real chance to end one of the bloodiest wars in the world. The implementation of the agreement is going well so far. However, the peace process has brought into focus the...
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dryness and drought during different steps of the vegetation period and extreme heat in the blooming period lead to … considerable losses. In total the calculated sum of losses due to dryness, drought and heat are estimated to approximately 40 Mio … irrigation, followed by crop yield losses due to late frosts and soil wetness. For sugar beets losses could only be determined …
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outbreaks with drought incidence and severity, we show that this causality is valid also for Somalia at the local level. We find … that livestock price shocks drive drought-induced conflicts through reducing the opportunity costs of conflict … aggravate Somalia's security challenges and calls for decisive action to strengthen both drought and conflict resilience …
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. Natural riverbanks will provide habitat for species that particularly depend on the land water transit area. Since common … riverbanks do not provide this habitat, natural river banks increase biodiversity in the Netherlands. On the basis of technical …
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This paper proposes a new Economic Drought Management Index (EDMI) that could assist water managers to inter …-temporally manage water reservoirs. The index's main appeal is that it can be easily interpreted and that it encompasses in a single … number hydrological processes, structural constraints, water institutions' rules and the economic benefits of the customers …
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that there is excellent soil moisture and ample surplus water in reservoirs. This high growth in agri-GDP is likely to …
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long time, but the first steps to combat drought took just in the mid twentieth century when there was planted windbreak …-1965, when work began planning for irrigation. In the period 1967-1989, were equipped more than 420 thousand hectares … an uncertain future while irrigation in Dobrogea is the main factor that depends on achieving high and safe yields. …
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