Irrigation in the Earth system

S McDermid, M Nocco, P Lawston-Parker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

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 …

Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies

MTH Van Vliet, ER Jones, M Flörke… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied
from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by …
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IEM de Graaf, T Gleeson, LPH Van Beek… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Groundwater is the world's largest freshwater resource and is critically important for
irrigation, and hence for global food security,–. Already, unsustainable groundwater …

Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration

JU Lemm, M Venohr, L Globevnik… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The biota of European rivers are affected by a wide range of stressors impairing water
quality and hydro‐morphology. Only about 40% of Europe's rivers reach 'good ecological …

[HTML][HTML] The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2. 2d: Model description and evaluation

H Müller Schmied, D Cáceres, S Eisner… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
WaterGAP is a global hydrological model that quantifies human use of groundwater and
surface water as well as water flows and water storage and thus water resources on all land …