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This paper explores legal processes for penalty setting in water theft cases in transboundary water systems and develops ideas to identify differences and potentially drive consistency between jurisdictions.
Assessing the accuracy of evapotranspiration (ET) data is crucial for managing the water used by crops and natural vegetation. This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of the accuracy of a remotely sensed ET model ensemble from the OpenET system using in situ ET measurements collected across the contiguous United States.
Global water models are important tools for understanding the water cycle. This study evaluates eight global water models by focusing on functional relationships that capture the spatial co-variability of forcing and response variables.
China’s history of large-scale water, sanitation and clean energy investments offers promising insights into the development of new interventions to reduce linear growth faltering among children and adolescents.
This study reveals trade-offs in freshwater savings, cost and capacity shortfalls from deploying treated brackish water for wet thermoelectric cooling, as well as its cost-effectiveness, relative to dry cooling retrofit, in saving freshwater.
Membranes can be used not only for water filtration but also for solute–solute separation. Using the separation between lithium and magnesium, this analysis provides a platform for evaluating the performance of nanofiltration-based selective solute separation.
Shanghai is a city facing the challenge for flood defence under climate change. This study proposes engineering solutions for mitigation flood risks in Shanghai by incorporating regret theory and decision science into the dynamic-adaptation-pathways framework.
The development of hydropower offers a renewable energy source that can help reduce society’s dependence on fossil fuels. A global assessment of the unused profitable hydropower potential can be performed by incorporating strict constraints to identify hydropower station locations with reduced environmental and societal impacts.