Freshwater is a vital resource for both ecosystem health and human survival, and it is the
natural resource that is the most extracted at the global level. Excessive freshwater …

India would require around 311 million tons of food grains (cereals and pulses) during 2030
to feed around 1.43 billion people, and the requirement expectedly would further increase to …

The integration of urban natural resources and smart city technologies as a means to
promote sustainability is investigated in this study using a descriptive-analytical literature …

Water is of vital and critical importance to ecosystems and human societies. The effects of
human activities on land and water are now large and extensive. These reflect physical …

Water scarcity raises major concerns on the sustainable future of humanity and the
conservation of important ecosystem functions. To meet the increasing food demand without …

Nanomaterials are of much interest and are considered as efficient adsorbents for
wastewater treatment because of their small particle sizes, large specific surface areas …

Drought stress is a serious limiting factor to rice production, which results in huge economic
losses. It is becoming a more serious issue with respect to the global climate change …

Heavy metal pollution such as water contamination by Pb, Hg, Cu, Cd and Cr ions is
induced by rapid urbanization and industrialization and is a major threat to human health …

Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat
to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research …

Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global
water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated …