Water manipulation is crucial for a wide range of engineering applications, such as
microfluidics, heat transfer, desalination, and water harvesting. Despite scientific …

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 …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030
represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable …

Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it
has developed over time. This study provides a first assessment of continuous sub-national …

Iran is currently experiencing serious water problems. Frequent droughts coupled with over-
abstraction of surface and groundwater through a large network of hydraulic infrastructure …

Iran is experiencing unprecedented climate-related problems such as drying of lakes and
rivers, dust storms, record-breaking temperatures, droughts, and floods. Here, we use the …

Irrigated agriculture has important implications for achieving the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals. However, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its …

Despite having a more advanced water management system than most Middle Eastern
countries, similar to the other countries in the region, Iran is experiencing a serious water …

Water can be redistributed through, in physical terms, water transfer projects and virtually,
embodied water for the production of traded products. Here, we explore whether such water …