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Alejandro Blas, Alberto Garrido and Bárbara A. Willaarts
Global food demand is increasing rapidly as a result of multiple drivers including population growth, dietary shifts and economic development. Meeting the rising global food demand will require expanding agricultural production and promoting healthier an...
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Alejandro Blas, Alberto Garrido, Bárbara A. Willaarts
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Global food demand is increasing rapidly as a result of multiple drivers including population growth, dietary shifts and economic development. Meeting the rising global food demand will require expanding agricultural production and promoting healthier an...
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Niels Thevs, Eva Strenge, Kumar Aliev, Maksat Eraaliev, Petra Lang, Azim Baibagysov and Jianchu Xu
In Central Asia, agriculture, notably irrigated agriculture, is the largest water consumer. Currently, flood and furrow irrigation are the dominant irrigation methods in Central Asia, in particular in the post-Soviet countries. Against the background of ...
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Liangxin Fan, Fei Wang, Guobin Liu, Xiaomei Yang and Wei Qin
The usual perception of consumers regarding water consumption is that their bills do not match their actual water consumption. However, this mismatch has been insufficiently studied; particularly for cases related to specific water-use patterns, water co...
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Sébastien M. R. Dente, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Tao Wang and Seiji Hashimoto
The current organization of water supply systems demands drinking standards for all the households? usage of water. Few dual water systems, i.e., systems in which the quality of the water supplied is differentiated by types of use, exist but are mainly c...
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Yael Keren, Racheli Magnezi, Moshe Carmon and Yona Amitai
Risk and protective factors for breast cancer (BC) include lifestyle, diet, reproduction, and others. Increased risk for colon cancer was linked with low water intake. The link between water consumption and BC was scarcely studied. We investigated the as...
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Giulia Romano, Nicola Salvati and Andrea Guerrini
The aim of this study was to estimate the determinants of residential water demand for chief towns of every Italian province, in the period 2007?2009, using the linear mixed-effects model estimated with the restricted-maximum-likelihood method. Results c...
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Samara Fernanda Da Silva, Vicky Britto, Camila Azevedo and Asher Kiperstok
The government has to lead, by example, the effort for more rational water use. Nevertheless, public buildings in countries like Brazil lack the operational and maintenance organization necessary to induce better environmental practices. This paper prese...
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Teodora Maria Rusu, Tania Mihaiescu, Antonia Odagiu and Laura Paulette
Water footprint assessment is an analytical tool that helps us understand how activities, actions, and products from human activity influence the scarcity and pollution of water resources. The objectives of the paper are to study the water footprint that...
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Camilla de Souza, Andreza Kalbusch
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This article shows an estimation of water expenditure in multifamily residential buildings in the city of Joinville, located in south Brazil. The proposed method includes an investigation of the water expenditure and an evaluation of the particularities ...
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Jorge Gallego Sánchez-Torija, Enrique Larrumbide Gómez-Rubiera, César Bedoya Frutos
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AbstractThe approach of energy audits usually disregards the study of water as it considers that the supply does not involve energy consumption within the building. This paper aims to make visible both the energy footprint involved in ensuring safe water...
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Zhaohui Yang, G. Mathias Kondolf, Jie Du and Luyao Cai
The conflict between urban energy supply and demand is becoming increasingly evident. One aspect that consumes a great deal of this energy is the allocation of urban water resources. This study proposes a new scheme for rationally allocating urban water ...
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Behrouz Pirouz, Stefania Anna Palermo, Mario Maiolo, Natale Arcuri and Patrizia Piro
Electrical and energy production have a noticeable water footprint, and buildings' share of global energy consumption is about 40%. This study presents a comprehensive experimental analysis of different thermal impacts and water consumption of green roof...
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Sadhana Shrestha, Yoko Aihara, Arun Prasad Bhattarai, Niranjan Bista, Sudarshan Rajbhandari, Naoki Kondo, Futaba Kazama, Kei Nishida and Junko Shindo
Information regarding domestic water consumption is vital, as the Kathmandu Valley will soon be implementing the Melamchi Water Supply Project; however, updated information on the current situation after the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake (GEQ) is still lacking....
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Sadhana Shrestha, Yoko Aihara, Arun Prasad Bhattarai, Niranjan Bista, Sudarshan Rajbhandari, Naoki Kondo, Futaba Kazama, Kei Nishida, Junko Shindo
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Information regarding domestic water consumption is vital, as the Kathmandu Valley will soon be implementing the Melamchi Water Supply Project; however, updated information on the current situation after the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake (GEQ) is still lacking....
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Jiefeng Kang, Jianyi Lin, Xiaofeng Zhao, Shengnan Zhao and Limin Kou
Decomposition of the urban water footprint can provide insight for water management. In this paper, a new decomposition method based on the log-mean Divisia index model (LMDI) was developed to analyze the driving forces of water footprint changes, attrib...
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Atefeh Dadvar, Krushna Mahapatra and Jörgen Forss
The increasing world population and climate change are major concerns for the supply of water needs. Understanding user behavior facilitates the development of effective strategies of domestic water management. This research applied a questionnaire surve...
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Ping Hu, Na Chen, Yongjun Li and Qiwei Xie
Due to the large volume of sewage in China, the efficiency of water consumption evaluated by the traditional model may be inaccurate. This paper evaluates the water consumption efficiency more scientifically. First, this paper uses the CCR model to evalu...
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Fatemeh Karandish and Arjen. Y. Hoekstra
Iran?s focus on food self-sufficiency has led to an emphasis on increasing water volumes available for irrigation with little attention to water use efficiency, and no attention at all to the role of consumption and trade. To better understand the develo...
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Bartolomé Deyà-Tortella, Celso Garcia, William Nilsson and Dolores Tirado
This study analyses water prices and residential water consumption using micro data for three different housing typologies in Calvià with contrasting household characteristics. We examine the effect of a price reform of the sanitation fee (implemented in...
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