The 'Great Acceleration'graphs, originally published in 2004 to show socio-economic and
Earth System trends from 1750 to 2000, have now been updated to 2010. In the graphs of …

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission, which was in
operation from March 2002 to June 2017, was the first remote sensing mission to provide …

This book presents a unique and up-to-date summary of what is known about groundwater
on our planet, from a global perspective and in terms of area-specific factual information …

Irrigation is the most important water use sector accounting for about 70% of the global
freshwater withdrawals and 90% of consumptive water uses. While the extent of irrigation …

Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa L.), a staple food for more than half of the world population, is
commonly grown by transplanting seedlings into puddled soil (wet tillage) in Asia. This …

In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-
emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation …

We review the sea‐level and energy budgets together from 1961, using recent and updated
estimates of all terms. From 1972 to 2008, the observed sea‐level rise (1.8±0.2 mm yr− 1 …

Groundwater plays a major, if often unrecognized, role in both hydrologic and human
systems. The majority of the world's drinking water probably comes from groundwater, and in …

Traditionally, people have inhabited places with ready access to fresh water. Today, over
50% of the global population lives in urban areas, and water can be directed via tens of …

Irrigation has always been central to the life and society in the plains of South Asia, ie, India,
Pakistan, southern Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. India's water policy-making is yet to …