Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

BR Scanlon, S Fakhreddine, A Rateb… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Water is a critical resource, but ensuring its availability faces challenges from climate
extremes and human intervention. In this Review, we evaluate the current and historical …

The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle

X Kuang, J Liu, BR Scanlon, JJ Jiao, S Jasechko… - Science, 2024 - science.org
In recent decades, climate change and other anthropogenic activities have substantially
affected groundwater systems worldwide. These impacts include changes in groundwater …

Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

S Jasechko, H Seybold, D Perrone, Y Fan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Groundwater resources are vital to ecosystems and livelihoods. Excessive groundwater
withdrawals can cause groundwater levels to decline,,,,,,,,–, resulting in seawater intrusion …

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

F Yao, B Livneh, B Rajagopalan, J Wang, JF Crétaux… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Climate change and human activities increasingly threaten lakes that store 87% of Earth's
liquid surface fresh water. Yet, recent trends and drivers of lake volume change remain …

Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau

X Li, D Long, BR Scanlon, ME Mann, X Li, F Tian… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) over the Tibetan Plateau, a major global water tower, is
crucial in determining water transport and availability to a large downstream Asian …

Remote sensing and geostatistics in urban water-resource monitoring: a review

Z Liu, J Xu, M Liu, Z Yin, X Liu, L Yin… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context At present, many cities are facing severe water-resources problems caused by
urbanisation. With the development of remote sensing and geostatistics, they have been …

Map** global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

X Pi, Q Luo, L Feng, Y Xu, J Tang, X Liang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lakes are important natural resources and carbon gas emitters and are undergoing rapid
changes worldwide in response to climate change and human activities. A detailed global …

Electrocapacitive deionization: mechanisms, electrodes, and cell designs

K Sun, M Tebyetekerwa, C Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an emerging water desalination technology for removing
different ionic species from water, which is based on electric charge compensation by these …

Polyelectrolyte hydrogel‐functionalized photothermal sponge enables simultaneously continuous solar desalination and electricity generation without salt …

L Li, C Xue, Q Chang, X Ren, N Li, J Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Technologies that can simultaneously generate electricity and desalinate seawater are
highly attractive and required to meet the increasing global demand for power and clean …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …