Agriculture plays a key role in providing a wide range of ecosystem services, such as food,
feed, fiber and biofuel, thus taking part in the economic development of countries. On the …

An indicator, agricultural water stress index (AWSI), was established based blue-green
water resources and water footprint framework for regional water scarcity in agricultural …

Water shortages and poor water quality have become an urgent problem that is constraining
the sustainable development of China. Grey water has been found to bring greater stress on …

The term “water-energy nexus” has remarkable implications in the sustainable management
of water resources. The aim of this paper is to analyse the production of electricity, from an …

Nitrogen is an essential element for plant growth, while its application and associated
pollution is a worldwide concern. Generally, diffuse source pollution and its impacts on …

In recent years, the agrifood sector has been relevantly impacted by resource shortage, food
loss and waste across the whole supply chain. This study assesses, from a life cycle …

Salinity is a global environmental issue nowadays particularly in arid and semiarid climates
and coastal areas, which are induced by precipitation of soluble salt in soils and water …

The accurate identification of groundwater pollution sources is the key to site remediation
and management, which directly relates to the cost and effect of remediation during later …

Reliable water quality monitoring and assessment can help to minimize the risk of water
quality failures (WQFs) in water distribution networks (WDNs). Indexing-based water quality …

At present, the deterioration of the water ecosystem has constituted a bottleneck for the
further development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB). As a crucial indicator for …