In recent decades, climate change and other anthropogenic activities have substantially
affected groundwater systems worldwide. These impacts include changes in groundwater …

Virtual water describes water embedded in the production of goods and offers meaningful
insights about the complex interplay between water, trade and sustainability. In this Review …

Satisfying China's food demand without harming the environment is one of the greatest
sustainability challenges for the coming decades. Here we provide a comprehensive …

Spatially compounding extremes pose substantial threats to globally interconnected socio-
economic systems. Here we use multiple large ensemble simulations of the high-emissions …

Water quality is identically important as quantity in terms of meeting basic human needs.
Therefore, evaluating the surface-water quality and the associated hydrochemical …

Central Asia is a strategic geopolitical region, which has recently been identified to be on the
verge of a water-related crisis. Yet, most studies addressing water-related issues across …

Freshwater availability has decreased alarmingly worldwide, with agriculture playing a vital
role in this trend. The assessment of the agricultural water footprint (WF agricultural) and …

Over the past 50 years, humans have extracted the Earth's groundwater stocks at a steep
rate, largely to fuel global agro-economic development. Given society's growing reliance on …

Global agriculture consumes substantial resources and produces significant pollution. By
shifting its production to new locations, and inducing changes in technology and input use …

The evolving international economic instability and international trade relationship demand
a nation to move towards a self-reliant integrated system at a sub-national scale to address …