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Antoni Sánchez-Ortiz, Miriam Lampreave and Maria Assumpta Mateos
Climate variability in Mediterranean viticultural areas, primarily attributed to climate change, will significantly impact water requirements, consequently leading to changes in irrigation management. The primary aim of this study was to assess the respo...
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María del Pino Palacios-Diaz, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera, Jose Manuel Hernández-Moreno, Regla Amorós and Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón
Treated water use for agriculture will promote sustainable irrigation development and food sovereignty. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) compared to drip irrigation (DI) and of reclaimed water (RW) ve...
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El-Sayed A. Badr, Rady T. Tawfik and Mortada S. Alomran
Irrigation water quality is important to sustain agricultural productivity. The primary irrigation water sources in Al-Ahsa Oasis, KSA, are groundwater wells, mixed with treated wastewater and agricultural drainage. This study sought to evaluate irrigati...
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Diana Martínez-Arteaga, Nolver Atanacio Arias Arias, Aquiles E. Darghan and Dursun Barrios
Water is one of the most determining factors in obtaining high yields in oil palm crops. However, water scarcity is becoming a challenge for agricultural sustainability. Therefore, when the environmental supply of water is low, it is necessary to provide...
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Aliasghar Montazar and Daniel Putnam
Drought and climate change have decreased water availability for agriculture, especially in the desert of southwestern USA. Efficiency enhancements in irrigation management aimed at conserving water are key to adjust to limits in water supply, improve pr...
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Alessandra Santini, Antonella Di Fonzo, Elisa Giampietri, Andrea Martelli, Orlando Cimino, Anna Dalla Marta, Maria Carmela Annosi, Francisco José Blanco-Velázquez, Teresa Del Giudice and Filiberto Altobelli
Some major future global challenges are linked to more efficient use of water for irrigation to respond to the growing water scarcity coupled with the increasing food demand. Although irrigation advisory services (IASs) are considered effective instrumen...
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Belén Cárceles Rodríguez, Víctor Hugo Durán Zuazo, Dionisio Franco Tarifa, Simón Cuadros Tavira, Pedro Cermeño Sacristan and Iván Francisco García-Tejero
Due to congenital features, avocado (Persea americana Mill.) trees are substantial water users relative to other fruit trees. The current growing deficiency of water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid avocado-producing areas, has led to the dema...
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Joan Pujol, Francesc X. Espinach, Miquel Duran-Ros, Gerard Arbat, Toni Pujol, Francisco Ramírez de Cartagena and Jaume Puig-Bargués
Irrigation is very important for global food production and, therefore, it is key to moving towards increasingly sustainable irrigation systems. However, the adoption of more efficient water-use techniques, such as drip irrigation, increases energy consu...
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Modesto Pérez-Sánchez, João F. P. Fernandes, P. J. Costa Branco, P. Amparo López-Jiménez and Helena M. Ramos
Sustainability and efficiency in irrigation are essential in the management of the water?energy?food nexus to reach the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030. In irrigation systems, the reduction of energy consumption is required to improve the system ef...
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Yining Bai, Saeed P. Langarudi and Alexander G. Fernald
Exploring the dynamic mechanisms of coupled sociohydrologic systems is necessary to solve future water sustainability issues. This paper employs system dynamics modeling to determine hydrologic and economic implications of an irrigation efficiency (IE) p...
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