Limited and uneven distributed water resources have become one of the main obstacles to China's sustainable development, “virtual hypothesis” (VWH) is expected help mitigate stress. This study discusses virtual transfer pattern stress in China from VWH perspective. Economic sectors are divided into land-dependent non-land-dependent according their dependence on specific local land types. Furthe...

Virtual reality is an emerging computer visualization technology which allows educators to place their students into instructional environments heretofore difficult or impossible to achieve. In order to take full advantage of this technology, a virtual environment, "Virtual Water", is being developed. Virtual reality has been recently employed in a few educational applications, but the project ...

The great challenge of the agricultural sector is to produce more crop from less water, which can be achieved by increasing crop water productivity. The modernization of the irrigation systems offers a number of possibilities to expand the economic productivity of water and improve the virtual water status. The objective of the present study is to assess the global water productivity (GWP) with...