Non-renewable groundwater use and groundwater depletion: a review

MFP Bierkens, Y Wada - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Population growth, economic development, and dietary changes have drastically increased
the demand for food and water. The resulting expansion of irrigated agriculture into semi …

Regional strategies for the accelerating global problem of groundwater depletion

W Aeschbach-Hertig, T Gleeson - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
Groundwater—the world's largest freshwater resource—is critically important for irrigated
agriculture and hence for global food security. Yet depletion is widespread in large …

Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE

AS Richey, BF Thomas, MH Lo… - Water resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater is an increasingly important water supply source globally. Understanding the
amount of groundwater used versus the volume available is crucial to evaluate future water …

Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley

BR Scanlon, CC Faunt, L Longuevergne… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Aquifer overexploitation could significantly impact crop production in the United States
because 60% of irrigation relies on groundwater. Groundwater depletion in the irrigated …

Global‐scale assessment of groundwater depletion and related groundwater abstractions: Combining hydrological modeling with information from well observations …

P Döll, H Müller Schmied, C Schuh… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater depletion (GWD) compromises crop production in major global agricultural
areas and has negative ecological consequences. To derive GWD at the grid cell, country …

Groundwater sustainability: A review of the interactions between science and policy

AS Elshall, AD Arik, AI El-Kadi, S Pierce… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Concerns over groundwater depletion and ecosystem degradation have led to the
incorporation of the concept of groundwater sustainability as a groundwater policy …

Map** groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security

AM MacDonald, RM Lark, RG Taylor… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Groundwater forms the basis of water supplies across much of Africa and its development is
rising as demand for secure water increases. Recharge rates are a key component for …

Use of flow modeling to assess sustainability of groundwater resources in the North China Plain

G Cao, C Zheng, BR Scanlon, J Liu… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The North China Plain (NCP) is one of the global hotspots of groundwater depletion.
Currently, our understanding is limited on spatiotemporal variability in depletion and …

Uncertainty in global groundwater storage estimates in a T otal G roundwater S tress framework

AS Richey, BF Thomas, MH Lo… - Water resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater is a finite resource under continuous external pressures. Current
unsustainable groundwater use threatens the resilience of aquifer systems and their ability …

Simulation of groundwater level variations using wavelet combined with neural network, linear regression and support vector machine

H Ebrahimi, T Rajaee - Global and Planetary Change, 2017 - Elsevier
Simulation of groundwater level (GWL) fluctuations is an important task in management of
groundwater resources. In this study, the effect of wavelet analysis on the training of the …