The interactions of the mining industry with water resources are highly complex and site
specific, with potential impacts to both hydrology and water quality occurring at all stages of …

International food trade entails virtual water flows across trading partners. It has been
proposed to attenuate regional water scarcity by importing water‐intensive commodities …

Purpose Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to assess freshwater-related impacts
according to a new water footprint framework formalized in the ISO 14046 standard. To date …

The increasing global demand for farmland products is placing unprecedented pressure on
the global agricultural system and its water resources. Many regions of the world, that are …

Sustainable utilization of water resources (SUWR) is the basis of water resources
management, allocation, and efficient utilization, which is crucial to promoting high-quality …

Increasing pressure on the world's freshwater resources raises serious concerns about
global food security and the sustainability of water use in agriculture. Here we quantify and …

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 …

Agriculture will need to significantly intensify in the next decades to continue providing
essential nutritive food to a growing global population. However, it can have harmful …

Reverse osmosis (RO) is increasingly becoming the dominant strategy for seawater
desalination owing to its excellent desalination performance over the past few decades. It …

Water is required throughout the life-cycle processes of energy production to meet the
growing energy demands in China's megacities. However, the spatially explicit impact on …