Nonsustainable groundwater sustaining irrigation: A global assessment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wada, Yoshihide ^a   Van Beek, L P H ^a   Bierkens, Marc F P ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE WATER; GREEN WATER; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; IRRIGATED CROPS; IRRIGATION PRACTICES; IRRIGATION WATERS; ME-XICO; NONLOCAL; PAKISTAN; RETURN FLOW; ROOT-WATER UPTAKE; SAUDI ARABIA; SIMULATED GROUND WATER; WATER DEMAND;

CROPS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRRIGATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER DEMAND; WATER UPTAKE; WATER USE;

CHINA; INDIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PAKISTAN; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84055173912     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010562     Document Type: Article

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