Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

Water is the fundamental natural resource that supports life, ecosystems and human society.
Thus studying the water cycle is important for sustainable development. In the context of …

Groundwater plays a vital role in food security, water availability, and economic growth of
more than 1.3 billion people in India. Notwithstanding the development of irrigation schemes …

The expansion of reservoirs to cope with droughts and water shortages is hotly debated in
many places around the world. We argue that there are two counterintuitive dynamics that …

Climate change introduces substantial uncertainty to water resources planning and raises
the key question: when, or under what conditions, should adaptation occur? A number of …

A sustainable management of global freshwater resources requires reliable estimates of the
water demanded by irrigated agriculture. This has been attempted by the Food and …

The ongoing and proposed construction of large-scale hydropower dams in the Mekong
river basin is a subject of intense debate and growing international concern due to the …

Humans abstract water from various sources to sustain their livelihood and society. Some
global hydrological models (GHMs) include explicit schemes of human water abstraction …

The South Asian summer monsoon is a complex coupled human‐natural system that poses
unique challenges for understanding its evolution alongside increasing anthropogenic …

Over recent decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human
activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes to an unprecedented extent. The phenomenal …