Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram

Y Nie, HD Pritchard, Q Liu, T Hennig, W Wang… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Glaciers in the Himalaya–Karakoram mountain ranges harbour approximately half
of the ice volume in High-mountain Asia and modulate the flow of freshwater to almost 869 …

Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes—A review on its environmental consequences and climate change

PS Roy, RM Ramachandran, O Paul, PK Thakur… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022 - Springer
The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

[HTML][HTML] Arsenic contamination of groundwater: A global synopsis with focus on the Indian Peninsula

E Shaji, M Santosh, KV Sarath, P Prakash… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
More than 2.5 billion people on the globe rely on groundwater for drinking and providing
high-quality drinking water has become one of the major challenges of human society …

Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies

MTH Van Vliet, ER Jones, M Flörke… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied
from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by …

Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

S Jasechko, H Seybold, D Perrone, Y Fan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Groundwater resources are vital to ecosystems and livelihoods. Excessive groundwater
withdrawals can cause groundwater levels to decline,,,,,,,,–, resulting in seawater intrusion …

Investigating sources, driving forces and potential health risks of nitrate and fluoride in groundwater of a typical alluvial fan plain

Y Xiao, Q Hao, Y Zhang, Y Zhu, S Yin, L Qin… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Groundwater of alluvial fan plains is the foremost water source, especially in arid/semiarid
regions. Its contaminants are big issues for water supply and public health concern. To …

Environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping

IEM de Graaf, T Gleeson, LPH Van Beek… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Groundwater is the world's largest freshwater resource and is critically important for
irrigation, and hence for global food security,–. Already, unsustainable groundwater …

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 …

Global groundwater modeling and monitoring: Opportunities and challenges

LE Condon, S Kollet, MFP Bierkens… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater is by far the largest unfrozen freshwater resource on the planet. It plays a
critical role as the bottom of the hydrologic cycle, redistributing water in the subsurface and …

Causes and implications of groundwater depletion in India: A review

S Dangar, A Asoka, V Mishra - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Groundwater plays a vital role in food security, water availability, and economic growth of
more than 1.3 billion people in India. Notwithstanding the development of irrigation schemes …