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Irrigation and Water Footprint

The potential impact of increased flooding and droughts on agriculture and the food processing industry highlight the importance of having access to high quality water. This section includes resources that focus on reducing the water requirements of agriculture and food processing. In agriculture, such techniques include drip irrigation to minimize water losses due to evaporation and runoff, sustainable farming practices that reduce ground water requirements, and the use of sensors to maximize irrigation schedules. And, this section includes best practices for reducing water use and inefficiencies in the food industry.

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Assessing the Feasibility of Using Produced Water for Irrigation in Colorado

This research explores which counties in Colorado may be best suited to reusing produced water for agriculture based on a…

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Science of the Total Environment

Date:

1 November 2018

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Coupling Aquaculture with Forest Plantations for Food, Energy, and Water Resiliency

Coupling freshwater aquaculture and forest bioenergy markets can improve food, energy, and water resiliency by enhancing ecosystem services through fertilization,…

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Science of the Total Environment

Date:

15 November 2016

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Opportunities for Renewable Energy in the Australian Water Sector

This study has evaluated the opportunities, barriers and current trends for renewable energy use in order to identify priority areas…

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Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)

Date:

1 November 2015

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PV Water Pumping for Carbon Sequestration in Dry Land Agriculture

This paper is inspired by theory related to the water-food-energy-climate nexus and suggests a novel model, suited for analyzing carbon…

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Energy Procedia

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Reusing Oil and Gas Produced Water for Irrigation of Food Crops in Drylands

Water scarcity affects drylands, threatening their food security, while the oil and gas industry produces significant and increasing volumes of…

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Agricultural Water Management

Date:

30 July 2018

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Simulating County-Level Crop Yields in the Conterminous United States Using the Community Land Model: The Effects of Optimizing Irrigation and Fertilization

Representing agricultural systems explicitly in Earth system models is important for understanding the water-energy-food nexus under climate change.The study applied…

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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

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19 December 2016

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Millennium Villages Project-Mali

This paper discusses the Columbia Water Center’s (in conjunction with the Millennium Villages Project in Mali), the developed and tested…

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Columbia Water Center

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Hydropower Versus Irrigation: An Analysis of Global Patterns

While reservoir operations for hydroelectricity production might support irrigation, there are also well-known cases where hydroelectricity production reduces water availability…

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Environmental Research Letters

Date:

28 February 2017

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Food, Fracking, and Freshwater: The Potential for Markets and Cross-sectoral Investments to Enable Water Conservation

This analysis employs an original water and cost model to evaluate the water market in Texas and the potential for…

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Water

Date:

30 January 2016

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Water-Food-Energy Nexus with Changing Agricultural Scenarios in India During Recent Decades

Meeting the growing water and food demands in a densely populated country like India is a major challenge. It requires…

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Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Date:

26 June 2017

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Water-Food-Energy Nexus with Changing Agricultural Scenarios in India During Recent Decades

Meeting the growing water and food demands in a densely populated country like India is a major challenge. It requires…

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Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Date:

26 June 2017

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Water Consumption Related to Different Diets in Mediterranean Cities

Providing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) water, food and energy security to cities relies strongly on resource use outside city…

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Science of The Total Environment

Date:

15 December 2016

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Climate Cange Vulnerability in the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus: Concerns for Agricultural Production in Arizona and its Urban Export Supply

A dynamic simulation model of the food-energy-water nexus in Arizona to assess the potential impacts of increasing temperatures and disruptions…

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Environmental Research Letters

Date:

28 February 2017

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Water and Energy Footprint of Irrigated Agriculture in the Mediterranean Region

Irrigated agriculture constitutes the largest consumer of freshwater in the Mediterranean region and provides a major source of income and…

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Environmental Research Letters

Date:

15 December 2014

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Transferable Principles for Managing the Nexus: Lessons from Historical Global Water Modelling of Central Asia

The complex relationships within the water-energy-food security nexus tend to be place-specific, increasing the importance of identifying transferable principles to…

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Water

Date:

31 July 2015

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Balancing Ecosystem Services with Energy and Food Security – Assessing Trade-Offs from Reservoir Operation and Irrigation Investments in Kenya's Tana Basin

This research seeks firstly to identify and help decision-makers visualize reservoir management strategies which result in the best possible (Pareto-optimal)…

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Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Date:

30 January 2014

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A Worldwide Comparison of Water Use Efficiency of Crop Production

This report is a summary and decomposition of water use efficiency of crop production variations in 87 countries from 1990…

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Applied Mechanics and Materials

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A Fast Track Approach to Deal with the Temporal Dimension of Crop Water Footprint

This article demonstrates the feasibility of the Fast Track (FT) approach to deal with the temporal dimension of crop water…

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Environmental Research Letters

Date:

4 July 2017