Water management dilemma in the agricultural sector of Iran: A review focusing on water governance

M Nouri, M Homaee, LS Pereira, M Bybordi - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Impacts of urbanization on watershed hydrology and runoff water quality of a watershed: a review

TA Shaikh, GE Adjovu, H Stephen… - World Environmental and …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
The natural hydrology and runoff water quality of a watershed change due to the conversion
of pervious surfaces into impervious surfaces. This article reviews the effects of urbanization …

Incidence of heavy metals in the application of fertilizers to crops (wheat and rice), a fish (Common carp) pond and a human health risk assessment

S Naz, F Fazio, SS Habib, G Nawaz, S Attaullah… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Though manure has been used for centuries to enhance soil fertility and final agricultural
yield, the overuse of fertilizers on the land can cause serious pollution issues, such as heavy …

Fusion of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data in mapping the impervious surfaces at city scale

B Shrestha, S Ahmad, H Stephen - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2021 - Springer
Urbanization creates new development in open spaces and agricultural fields, synonymous
with increasing impervious surfaces. Such surfaces restrain the natural infiltration of water …

Sensitivity analysis of the DEM resolution and effective parameters of runoff yield in the SWAT model: a case study

M Nazari-Sharabian, M Taheriyoun… - Journal of Water …, 2020 - iwaponline.com
This study investigates the impact of different digital elevation model (DEM) resolutions on
the topological attributes and simulated runoff, as well as the sensitivity of runoff parameters …

Modeling and Prioritizing Interventions Using Pollution Hotspots for Reducing Nutrients, Atrazine and E. coli Concentrations in a Watershed

O Abimbola, A Mittelstet, T Messer, E Berry… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Excess nutrients and herbicides remain two major causes of waterbody impairment globally.
In an attempt to better understand pollutant sources in the Big Sandy Creek Watershed …

A comparative evaluation of the continuous and event-based modelling approaches for identifying critical source areas for sediment and phosphorus losses

NK Shrestha, RP Rudra, P Daggupati, PK Goel… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Proper identification of critical source areas (CSAs) is important for economic viability of any
best management practices (BMPs) aimed at reducing sediment and phosphorus loads to …

The impacts of climate change on the hydrological process and water quality in the three gorges reservoir area, China

Y Sun, W Zhang, H Peng, F Zhou, A Jiang, X Chen… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the intensification of climate change, understanding the impacts of climate change on
the water cycle is vital for integrated watershed management. Based on the precipitation and …

Effect of watershed delineation and climate datasets density on runoff predictions for the Upper Mississippi River Basin using SWAT within HAWQS

M Chen, Y Cui, PW Gassman, R Srinivasan - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The quality of input data and the process of watershed delineation can affect the accuracy of
runoff predictions in watershed modeling. The Upper Mississippi River Basin was selected …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic modelling of the inherent field-level pesticide pollution risk in a small drinking water catchment using spatial Bayesian belief networks

M Troldborg, Z Gagkas, A Vinten, A Lilly… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
Pesticides are contaminants of priority concern that continue to present a significant risk to
drinking water quality. While pollution mitigation in catchment systems is considered a cost …