The Nile River Basin: A Case Study in Surface Water Conflict Resolution

Impacts of Land Use on Surface Water Quality in a Subtropical River Basin: A Case Study of the Dongjiang River Basin, Southeastern China

Understanding the relationship between land use and surface water quality is necessary for effective water management. We estimated the impacts of catchment-wide land use on water quality during the dry and rainy seasons in the Dongjiang River basin, using remote sensing, geographic information systems and multivariate statistical techniques. The results showed that the 83 sites can be divided ...

A river basin as a common-pool resource: A case study for the Jaguaribe basin in Brazil Value of Water

Water, environment and food security: a case study of the Haihe River basin in China

The Haihe River basin is one of the most developed regions in China. With the rapid economic development and associated increases in water demand, the river basin has been enduring increasing water stress. Water for the ecosystem use has been compromised and the environment has been deteriorating. Water shortage has become a bottleneck to the further development of the economy and grain product...

Sensitivity and uncertainty in crop water footprint accounting: a case study for the Yellow River basin

Water Footprint Assessment is a fast-growing field of research, but as yet little attention has been paid to the uncertainties involved. This study investigates the sensitivity of and uncertainty in crop water footprint (in m3 t−1) estimates related to uncertainties in important input variables. The study focuses on the green (from rainfall) and blue (from irrigation) water footprint of produci...

Assessment of surface water quality using environmetric techniques: A case study of the Lower Songkhram river basin, Thailand

Environmetric techniques such as cluster analysis (CA), principal component analysis (PCA), factor analysis (FA) and discriminant analysis (DA) were applied for the assessment of spatial and temporal variations of a large complex water quality data set of the Songkhram River Basin, generated during 15 years (1995–2009) by monitoring of 17 parameters at 5 different sites. Hierarchical CA grouped...