Water management dilemma in the agricultural sector of Iran: A review focusing on water governance

M Nouri, M Homaee, LS Pereira, M Bybordi - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Around 90% of fresh renewable water is being used in Iran, indicating high water stress
conditions across the country. Given that agricultural irrigation accounts for the majority of …

A historical investigation on water resources management in Iran

M Saatsaz - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2020 - Springer
Swarming water-related problems are threatening many arid and semiarid regions of the
earth, and Iran is no exception. Integrating such problems with health, environmental …

Global water shortage and potable water safety; Today's concern and tomorrow's crisis

M Salehi - Environment International, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change, severe droughts, population growth, demand increase, and poor
management during the recent decades have further stressed the scarce freshwater …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling the effects of crop blue, green and grey virtual water flows on regional agricultural water footprint and scarcity

X Cao, Y Bao, Y Li, J Li, M Wu - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
There was presently a lack of multidimensional investigation on the impact of virtual water
flow (VWF) on regional water use and scarcity. A framework for impact analysis of VWF in …

International trade of scarce water

M Lenzen, D Moran, A Bhaduri, K Kanemoto… - Ecological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent analyses of the evolution and structure of trade in virtual water revealed that the
number of trade connections and volume of virtual water trade have more than doubled over …

Virtual scarce water in China

K Feng, K Hubacek, S Pfister, Y Yu… - Environmental Science & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Water footprints and virtual water flows have been promoted as important indicators to
characterize human-induced water consumption. However, environmental impacts …

Analyses of the impact of climate change on water resources components, drought and wheat yield in semiarid regions: Karkheh River Basin in Iran

S Ashraf Vaghefi, SJ Mousavi… - hydrological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Water resources availability in the semiarid regions of Iran has experienced severe
reduction because of increasing water use and lengthening of dry periods. To better …

Impact of human intervention and climate change on natural flow regime

N Mittal, AG Bhave, A Mishra, R Singh - Water resources management, 2016 - Springer
According to the 'natural flow paradigm', any departure from the natural flow condition will
alter the river ecosystem. River flow regimes have been modified by anthropogenic …

Response to water crisis: How do Iranian farmers think about and intent in relation to switching from rice to less water-dependent crops?

M Boazar, M Yazdanpanah, A Abdeshahi - Journal of hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
In response to the severe water crisis in Iran, the Iranian government has changed its
approach to the management of the country's water resources in different sectors from …

Savings and losses of global water resources in food‐related virtual water trade

W Liu, M Antonelli, M Kummu, X Zhao… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
International food trade entails virtual water flows across trading partners. It has been
proposed to attenuate regional water scarcity by importing water‐intensive commodities …