Water crisis in Iran: A system dynamics approach on water, energy, food, land and climate (WEFLC) nexus

AA Barati, MD Pour, MA Sardooei - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a highly complex, multifaceted and dynamic issue, which has become a
severe global challenge. Water scarcity is a hyperconnected phenomenon and thus should …

A Critical Review of Innovations and Perspectives for Providing Adequate Water for Sustainable Irrigation

A Abou-Shady, MS Siddique, W Yu - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global climatic change intensifies the water crisis, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions.
In this regard, the provision of enough water for irrigation is a serious dilemma because the …

The impact of water-pricing policies on water productivity: Evidence of agriculture sector in Iran

O Zamani, H Azadi, SA Mortazavi, H Balali… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water pricing and reducing the costs of the implementation and maintenance of irrigation
systems have been a challenging topic for a long time. Water pricing issues combine two …

Battling water limits to growth: lessons from water trends in the central plateau of Iran

A Sharifi, A Mirchi, R Pirmoradian, R Mirabbasi… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Zayandeh-Rud River Basin in the central plateau of Iran continues to grapple
with water shortages due to a water-intensive development path made possible by a …

An improved water footprint model of steel production concerning virtual water of personnel: The case of Iran

R Nezamoleslami, SM Hosseinian - Journal of environmental management, 2020 - Elsevier
The water footprint concept has been widely applied to the agriculture sector; however, little
attention has been given to industrial products. In this paper, the concept of water footprint is …

Mapping vegetation index-derived actual evapotranspiration across croplands using the Google Earth Engine platform

N Abbasi, H Nouri, K Didan, A Barreto-Muñoz… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Precise knowledge of crop water consumption is essential to better manage agricultural
water use, particularly in regions where most countries struggle with increasing water and …

[HTML][HTML] Solving water scarcity challenges in arid regions: A novel approach employing human-based meta-heuristics and machine learning algorithm for groundwater …

SV Razavi-Termeh, A Sadeghi-Niaraki, F Farhangi… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Addressing water scarcity challenges in arid regions is a pressing concern and demands
innovative solutions for accurate groundwater potential mapping (GPM). This study presents …

The impacts of water pricing and non-pricing policies on sustainable water resources management: A case of Ghorveh plain at Kurdistan province, Iran

MA Asaadi, SA Mortazavi, O Zamani, GH Najafi… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
As with other regions of Iran, due to excessive extraction of groundwater for intense
agricultural activity, Ghorveh plain, a water-scarce irrigation district in the west of Iran, has …

Managing water supply and demand to achieve economic and environmental objectives: application of mathematical programming and ANFIS models

M Mardani Najafabadi, A Mirzaei, H Azarm… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Springer
The integrated management of water supply and demand has been considered by many
policymakers; due to its complexity the decision makers have faced many challenges so far …

Dryland river regime shifts in Iran: Drivers and feedbacks

M Rahimi, M Ghorbani, K Ahmadaali… - River Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the Anthropocene, human activities have created unprecedented changes and nonlinear
relationships between humans and nature. These changes can be much faster and more …