Highlights•The status of fluoride contamination in groundwater of Asian countries is
reviewed.•India, Pakistan and China are critically affected by fluoride contamination.•Dental …

Water management faces great challenges over the coming decades. Pressures include
stricter water-quality standards, increasing demand for water and the need to adapt to …

Densely populated floodplains downstream of Asia's mountain ranges depend heavily on
mountain water resources, in particular for irrigation. An intensive and complex multi …

In the coming decades, continued population growth, rising meat and dairy consumption
and expanding biofuel use will dramatically increase the pressure on global agriculture …

Groundwater is playing an essential role in expanding irrigated agriculture in many parts of
the world. Pakistan is the third-largest user of groundwater for irrigation in the world. The …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

Past land use changes have greatly impacted global water resources, with often opposing
effects on water quantity and quality. Increases in rain‐fed cropland (460%) and pastureland …

Groundwater plays a major, if often unrecognized, role in both hydrologic and human
systems. The majority of the world's drinking water probably comes from groundwater, and in …

The North China Plain (NCP) is one of the global hotspots of groundwater depletion.
Currently, our understanding is limited on spatiotemporal variability in depletion and …

Out of the total water available in Pakistan, 180 billion cubic meters (bcm) is from the Indus
River system, of which about 128 bcm is diverted to the distribution system. The second …