Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

BR Scanlon, S Fakhreddine, A Rateb… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Water is a critical resource, but ensuring its availability faces challenges from climate
extremes and human intervention. In this Review, we evaluate the current and historical …

Review of drivers and threats to coastal groundwater quality in China

D Han, MJ Currell - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
With rapid socio-economic development, China's coastal areas are among the fastest
growing and most economically dynamic regions in the world. Under the influence of climate …

Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

S Jasechko, H Seybold, D Perrone, Y Fan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Groundwater resources are vital to ecosystems and livelihoods. Excessive groundwater
withdrawals can cause groundwater levels to decline,,,,,,,,–, resulting in seawater intrusion …

Quality matters: Pollution exacerbates water scarcity and sectoral output risks in China

J Li, J Yang, M Liu, Z Ma, W Fang, J Bi - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Pollution exacerbates a region's water scarcity by making water unfit for different uses and
reducing freshwater availability. Local water scarcity may lead to economic output losses …

Generating surface soil moisture at 30 m spatial resolution using both data fusion and machine learning toward better water resources management at the field scale

AS Abowarda, L Bai, C Zhang, D Long, X Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture has a considerable impact on the hydrological cycle, runoff generation,
drought development, and water resources management. Soil moisture products provided …

Warming temperatures exacerbate groundwater depletion rates in India

N Bhattarai, DB Lobell, Balwinder-Singh… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Climate change will likely increase crop water demand, and farmers may adapt by applying
more irrigation. Understanding the extent to which this is occurring is of particular …

[HTML][HTML] Importance and vulnerability of lakes and reservoirs supporting drinking water in China

Y Zhang, J Deng, B Qin, G Zhu, Y Zhang… - Fundamental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drinking water is closely related to human health, disease and mortality, and contaminated
drinking water causes 485,000 deaths from diarrhea each year worldwide. China has been …

Deficiency and excess of groundwater iodine and their health associations

R Ma, M Yan, P Han, T Wang, B Li, S Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
More than two billion people worldwide have suffered thyroid disorders from either iodine
deficiency or excess. By creating the national map of groundwater iodine throughout China …

[HTML][HTML] High-quality reconstruction of China's natural streamflow

C Miao, J Gou, B Fu, Q Tang, Q Duan, Z Chen, H Lei… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Reconstruction of natural streamflow is fundamental to the sustainable management of
water resources. In China, previous reconstructions from sparse and poor-quality gauge …

Simulation of regional groundwater levels in arid regions using interpretable machine learning models

Q Liu, D Gui, L Zhang, J Niu, H Dai, G Wei… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Regional groundwater level forecasting is critical to water resource management, especially
for arid regions which require effective management of groundwater resources to meet …