blue water
A spatially detailed blue water footprint of the United States economy
... NWED water footprints, by necessity, are multiple water sources and types beyond simply groundwater and surface ...brackish water are nontrivial components of US water use, comprising about 14 ...
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Quantifying the effect of land use and land cover changes on green water and blue water in northern part of China
... Nowadays, hydrological models are being used to address the impact of LULC changes. Lorup et al. (1998) calibrated lumped models for a reference period when there is a lit- tle change in LULC and applied it to a ...
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The blue water footprint of electricity from hydropower
... non-consumptive water user; however, through the estima- tion of the blue water footprint of hydroelectricity at 35 sites, this study finds that hydropower is a large consumptive user of ...of ...
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The water footprint and land footprint of water storage systems : an analysis of the evaporation losses from differently sized water storages within a semi arid catchment area
... The assumption with the largest effect on the results made in this study is the assumption of choosing a hypothetical reservoir. Using the hypothetical reservoir made this study to some extent, even though the choice is ...
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Consumptive water use to feed humanity curing a blind spot
... green water flow that can be redi- rected through “vapour shift” from non-productive evapora- tion (sometimes also called “white water”) into productive transpiration (Rockstr¨om, ...in water use. ...
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Model Based Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Isaac River Catchment, Queensland
... of blue water will increase to 300%, 50% and 29% under B1, A1B and A2 emission scenarios, ...green water storage will increase under the three emission scenarios for the two future periods except ...
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The environmental sustainability of nations: Benchmarking the carbon, water and land footprints against allocated planetary boundaries
... green water availability throughout the world is required to maintain the operation of critical ecosystem services irrespective of human actions [39,40], and that a reference value for the green water ...
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Why increased extreme precipitation under climate change negatively affects water security
... plant water stress in rainfed agriculture may cause a shift from rainfed to irrigated agriculture, a trend that is al- ready taking place (Nainggolan et ...irrigation water, leading to an in- crease in ...
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Index Terms - Water Footprint, Water Scarcity,
... categorized water footprint into three types namely; blue water footprint, which refers to the consumption of fresh surface water or groundwater that evaporates, it is incorporated in the ...
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A Site-sPecific Agricultural water Requirement and footprint Estimator (SPARE:WATER 1.0)
... agricultural water footprint addresses the quantification of water consumption in agriculture, whereby three types of water to grow crops are considered, namely green water (consumed ...
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The blue and grey water footprint of industry and domestic water supply : The blue and grey water footprint of all industrial sectors and domestic water supply for each country annually in the period 1960 2015
... the blue and grey water footprint between sectors within the industry for a longer period than ...total blue and grey water footprint of the industry and the volume of the water ...
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The impacts of future climate change on land and water productivity of staple crops : a case study for China
... and blue WF (kg/l) of the crops are obtained following the framework defined by Hoekstra et ...and blue CWU (m³/ha) per grid cell over the growing season by the scaled crop LP ...a water driven crop ...
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The water footprint of Indonesian provinces related to the consumption of crop products
... the water flows, water use for crop production and water consumption by the population within a country than the global study of Hoekstra and Chapagain could ...extended water-resources-use ...
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Water footprints of cities – indicators for sustainable consumption and production
... and blue water avail- abilities for food production as well as their own food wa- ter requirements, using results from the dynamic global veg- etation and water balance model LPJmL, which simulates ...
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The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products
... green water plays a prominent role in the global crop produc- ...green water based self-sufficiency potential and are in a position to produce their entire food require- ment ...improve water ...
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Simulation of blue and green water resources in the Wei River basin, China
... of water resources components across the whole ...serious blue water scarcity, especially for the Loess Plateau in the ...expected, blue water flow in the upper region was generally ...
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Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Water Resources of Lesser Zab, Kurdistan, Iraq Using SWAT Model
... the blue and green water flows for the Lesser Zab ...on blue and green water flows in the last three decades as well as identify blue water scarcity and green water ...
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Internal and external green blue agricultural water footprints of nations, and related water and land savings through trade
... and blue water pools have different sources and opportunity costs – the costs of using water for other ...be blue wa- ter exporters, while many parts of these countries are usu- ally ...
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INDEXING THE CYANOBACTERIAL COMMUNITIES OF DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL HABITATS OF MALAKAND PAKISTAN
... drinking water making it unfit for ...running water and sometime in stagnant water during summer ...fresh water bodies of Gulshan e Iqbal town Karachi among their research ...
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Water movement through plant roots – exact solutions of the water flow equation in roots with linear or exponential piecewise hydraulic properties
... Here, we compare single roots with complex hydraulic pro- files (as they have been observed) and constant root hydraulic properties in terms of distribution of water xylem poten- tial, radial and axial flows and ...
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