Global water shortage and potable water safety; Today's concern and tomorrow's crisis

M Salehi - Environment International, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change, severe droughts, population growth, demand increase, and poor
management during the recent decades have further stressed the scarce freshwater …

Runoff management based water harvesting for better water resources sustainability: a comprehensive review

ZH Doost, M Alsuwaiyan… - Knowledge …, 2024 - … journals.publicknowledgeproject.org
The exacerbation of drought conditions has significantly enhanced water scarcity, notably
impacting arid and semi-arid regions globally. Consequently, effective runoff management …

Selection frameworks for potential rainwater harvesting sites in arid and semi-arid regions: A systematic literature review

S Ahmed, M Jesson, S Sharifi - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Water shortage is a concern in arid and semi-arid regions across the globe due to their lack
of precipitation and unpredictable rainfall patterns. In the past few decades, many …

Identifying the potential dam sites to avert the risk of catastrophic floods in the Jhelum Basin, Kashmir, NW Himalaya, India

MA Rather, G Meraj, M Farooq, BA Shiekh, P Kumar… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In September 2014, Kashmir witnessed a catastrophic flood resulting in a significant loss of
lives and property. Such massive losses could have been avoided if any structural support …

Minimizing the impacts of desertification in an arid region: a case study of the West Desert of Iraq

KN Sayl, SO Sulaiman, AH Kamel… - Advances in Civil …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, desertification is a major problem in the western desert of Iraq. The harsh nature,
remoteness, and size of the desert make it difficult and expensive to monitor and mitigate …

Allocation of reservoirs sites for runoff management towards sustainable water resources: Case study of Harirud River Basin, Afghanistan

ZH Doost, ZM Yaseen - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
The intensification of drought conditions in arid and semi-arid regions coupled with the
growing population increased water demands (domestic, and irrigation). It signifies the …

Identification of suitable sites for surface rainwater harvesting in the drought prone Kumari River basin, India in the context of irrigation water management

A Bera, BP Mukhopadhyay - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is one of the most pressing concerns facing the world in the 21st century. The
groundwater reserves are being depleted at a much faster rate than they can be replenished …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing community resilience in arid regions: A smart framework for flash flood risk assessment

M Nakhaei, P Nakhaei, M Gheibi, B Chahkandi… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel framework for smart integrated risk management in arid regions.
The framework combines flash flood modelling, statistical methods, artificial intelligence (AI) …

A systematic basin-wide approach for locating and assessing volumetric potential of rainwater harvesting sites in the urban area

D Patil, G Kumar, A Kumar, R Gupta - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) has proven to be an efficient method of curtailing water scarcity
by substituting it as an alternative water supply which also helps to mitigate the risk of …

A GIS-based multicriteria decision for groundwater potential zone in the west desert of Iraq

OA Mohammed, KN Sayl - IOP Conference Series: Earth and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In arid and semi-arid parts worldwide, the investigation of the groundwater potential
recharging zone is a main target to recompense the massive shortage in rainfall and surface …