Dams for hydropower and irrigation: Trends, challenges, and alternatives

RJP Schmitt, L Rosa - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Hydropower and irrigation are essential for achieving human development objectives and
for climate mitigation and adaptation. These sectors depend on the same grey infrastructure …

Agricultural managed aquifer recharge (Ag-MAR)—a method for sustainable groundwater management: A review

E Levintal, ML Kniffin, Y Ganot, N Marwaha… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
More than two billion people and 40% of global agricultural production depend upon
unsustainable groundwater extraction. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR), the practice of …

Anthropogenic drought dominates groundwater depletion in Iran

S Ashraf, A Nazemi, A AghaKouchak - Scientific reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Using publicly-available average monthly groundwater level data in 478 sub-basins and 30
basins in Iran, we quantify country-wide groundwater depletion in Iran. Natural and …

Drought monitoring by downscaling GRACE-derived terrestrial water storage anomalies: A deep learning approach

E Foroumandi, V Nourani, JJ Huang, H Moradkhani - Journal of Hydrology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The current study proposes a new method to downscale the monthly GRACE-derived
Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly (TWSA) to 10 km spatial resolution over Iran using deep …

Managed aquifer recharge implementation criteria to achieve water sustainability

S Alam, A Borthakur, S Ravi, M Gebremichael… - Science of the Total …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Depletion of groundwater is accelerated due to an increase in water demand for
applications in urbanized areas, agriculture sectors, and energy extraction, and dwindling …

An interplay of soil salinization and groundwater degradation threatening coexistence of oasis-desert ecosystems

X Yin, Q Feng, Y Li, RC Deo, W Liu, M Zhu… - Science of the Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In salt-affected and groundwater-fed oasis-desert systems, water and salt balance is
critically important for stable coexistence of oasis-desert ecosystems, especially in the …

Storing and managing water for the environment is more efficient than mimicking natural flows

SE Null, H Zeff, J Mount, B Gray, AM Sturrock… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Dams and reservoirs are often needed to provide environmental water and maintain suitable
water temperatures for downstream ecosystems. Here, we evaluate if water allocated to the …

Mobilization of arsenic and other naturally occurring contaminants during managed aquifer recharge: a critical review

S Fakhreddine, H Prommer, BR Scanlon… - … science & technology, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Population growth and climate variability highlight the need to enhance freshwater security
and diversify water supplies. Subsurface storage of water in depleted aquifers is …

Natural iron minerals in an electrocatalytic oxidation system and in situ pollutant removal in groundwater: Applications, mechanisms, and challenges

G Zeng, J Wang, M Dai, Y Meng, H Luo, Q Zhou… - Science of The Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Natural iron-bearing minerals are widely distributed in the environment and show prominent
catalytic performance in pollutant removal. This work provides an overview of groundwater …

From managed aquifer recharge to soil aquifer treatment on agricultural soils: Concepts and challenges

M Grinshpan, A Furman, HE Dahlke, E Raveh… - Agricultural Water …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Water is a limiting factor for economic and social development in most arid and semi-arid
regions on Earth. The deliberate recharge of depleted aquifer storage and later recovery …