Ensuring sufficient water supply has always been among Israel’s foremost challenges. During the first several decades of its history, Israel managed chronic water scarcity through a combination of technological innovations, conservation efforts, and policy measures. Israel implemented a large-scale domesti...
By importing food and agricultural goods, countries cope with the heterogeneous global water distribution and often rely on water resources available abroad. The virtual displacement of the water used to produce such goods (known as virtual water) connects together, in a global water system, all co...
in several seasidecommunitiesaround the world, including China’sYangtze Riverestuary, the East Coast of theUnited States,the NetherlandsandItalyinEurope, andAlgeriaandEgyptinNorth Africa. The effects of saltwater intrusion can be as varied as economic losses caused by the fouling of once arable ...
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Nigeria is one of the most populated black nation in the world with a population of about 170 million. Over the years, potable water source which is one of
The development and utilization of saline water is gaining importance in agriculture in many countries, including India, China, Egypt, Russia, Ukraine, and Australia, due to issues with water quality. Although there are differ- ences in the frequency and timing of saline water, excess soil ...
This virtual water trade has relevant environmental and socio-economic implications, the most important one being that water-scarce countries can rely on water resources available abroad. In fact, in semi-arid countries, water scarcity limits the local agricultural production posing a key challenge to...
3 Institute of African & Nile States Researches and Studies, Aswan University, Aswan 81528, Egypt 4 Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Agronomy...
Deficit irrigation management as strategy under conditions of water scarcity; potential application in North Sinai, Egypt. In Sustainability of Agricultural Environment in Egypt: Part I; Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, 2018; pp. 35–55. [Google Scholar] Negm, A.M. Conventional Water ...
Utilizing water resources rationally has become critical due to the expected increase in water scarcity. Cacti are capable of surviving with minimal water requirements and in poor soils. Despite being highly drought-resistant, cacti still faces limitatio