Non-renewable groundwater use and groundwater depletion: a review

MFP Bierkens, Y Wada - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Population growth, economic development, and dietary changes have drastically increased
the demand for food and water. The resulting expansion of irrigated agriculture into semi …

A review of remote sensing applications for water security: Quantity, quality, and extremes

I Chawla, L Karthikeyan, AK Mishra - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Water resources are critical to the sustainability of life on Earth. With a growing population
and climate change, it is imperative to assess the security of these resources. Over the past …

South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing's groundwater levels

D Long, W Yang, BR Scanlon, J Zhao, D Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Groundwater (GW) overexploitation is a critical issue in North China with large GW level
declines resulting in urban water scarcity, unsustainable agricultural production, and …

Monitoring groundwater storage changes using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission: A review

F Frappart, G Ramillien - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission, which was in
operation from March 2002 to June 2017, was the first remote sensing mission to provide …

[HTML][HTML] How much water did Iran lose over the last two decades?

P Saemian, MJ Tourian, A AghaKouchak… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Study area Iran. Study focus Iran, once a pioneer of sustainable water
management, is currently facing water bankruptcy. Aggressive exhaustion of non-renewable …

Global analysis of spatiotemporal variability in merged total water storage changes using multiple GRACE products and global hydrological models

D Long, Y Pan, J Zhou, Y Chen, X Hou, Y Hong… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Proliferation of different total water storage (TWS) change products from the Gravity
Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, including the newly released mascon …

Have GRACE satellites overestimated groundwater depletion in the Northwest India Aquifer?

D Long, X Chen, BR Scanlon, Y Wada, Y Hong… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Northwest India Aquifer (NWIA) has been shown to have the highest
groundwater depletion (GWD) rate globally, threatening crop production and sustainability of …

Long-chain propagation pathways from meteorological to hydrological, agricultural and groundwater drought and their dynamics in China

Z Han, S Huang, J Zhao, G Leng, Q Huang, H Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drought propagation is a complex process involving various components of water cycle.
Clarifying the propagation pathways and mechanisms among multiple types of droughts is …

Sub-regional groundwater storage recovery in North China Plain after the South-to-North water diversion project

C Zhang, Q Duan, PJF Yeh, Y Pan, H Gong… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The South-to-North water diversion Middle Route Project (MRP) is expected to
alleviate the long-term groundwater storage (GWS) depletion in North China Plain (NCP) …

Estimating net irrigation across the North China Plain through dual modeling of evapotranspiration

J Koch, W Zhang, G Martinsen, X He… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation is the greatest human interference with the terrestrial water cycle. Detailed
knowledge on irrigation is required to better manage water resources and to increase water …