Water contamination and human health risks in Pakistan: a review

M Fida, P Li, Y Wang, SMK Alam, A Nsabimana - Exposure and Health, 2023 - Springer
Water contamination is one of the most significant hazards to human health on the world
scale. Drinking water quality in Pakistan is decreasing gradually due to alarming population …

[HTML][HTML] Water pricing reform for sustainable water resources management in China's agricultural sector

CY Zhang, T Oki - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Strengthening water resource management and improving water-use efficiency are crucial
for sustainable development, as described in the Target 6.4 of the Sustainable Development …

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

K Richardson, W Steffen, W Lucht, J Bendtsen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are
transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for …

Sustainability Assessment of Municipal Infrastructure Projects Based on Continuous Interval Argumentation Ordered Weighted Average (C-OWA) and Cloud Models

X Liu, Z Xue, Z Ding, S Chen - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The goals of sustainable development are constantly negatively impacted by infrastructure
initiatives. The importance of these projects in advancing the economic, social, and …

Powering agriculture: Present status, future potential, and challenges of renewable energy applications

MM Rahman, I Khan, DL Field, K Techato, K Alameh - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Modern agriculture requires much greater energy input than conventional agriculture, which
heavily depends on fossil fuels for drying grain, manufacturing fertilizers, driving machinery …

Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions

J Zou, AD Ziegler, D Chen, G McNicol, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon and nitrogen losses from degraded wetlands and methane emissions from flooded
wetlands are both important sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the net …

Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

J Liu, H Yang, SN Gosling, M Kummu, M Flörke… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat
to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research …

Enhancing rice production sustainability and resilience via reactivating small water bodies for irrigation and drainage

S Li, Y Zhuang, H Liu, Z Wang, F Zhang, M Lv… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rice farming threatens freshwater resources, while also being increasingly vulnerable to
drought due to climate change. Rice farming needs to become more sustainable and …

The global nexus of food–trade–water sustaining environmental flows by 2050

AV Pastor, A Palazzo, P Havlik, H Biemans… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In the face of meeting Sustainable Development Goals for the water–food–energy–
ecosystems nexus, integrated assessments are a great means to measure the impact of …

Co-benefits approach: Opportunities for implementing sponge city and urban heat island mitigation

BJ He, J Zhu, DX Zhao, ZH Gou, JD Qi, J Wang - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate change and its impacts cannot be addressed once for all due to internal complexity.
Some implemented strategies may only be capable of dealing with a cluster of problems …