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Adla, Soham (author), Bruckmaier, Felix (author), Arias-Rodriguez, Leonardo F. (author), Tripathi, Shivam (author), Pande, S. (author), Disse, Markus (author)Sensor data and agro-hydrological modeling have been combined to improve irrigation management. Crop water models simulating crop growth and production in response to the soil-water environment need to be parsimonious in terms of structure, inputs and parameters to be applied in data scarce regions. Irrigation management using soil moisture...journal article 2024
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Ghorbanpour, Ali Karbalaye (author), Afshar, Abbas (author), Hessels, T.M. (author), Duan, Zheng (author)An exhaustive evaluation of water resources is a prerequisite for evidence-informed planning and implementing sustainable management strategies. However, the lack of sufficient information on water supply and consumption, alongside the technical limitations on comprehensive accounting for inter-relations and interactions between the...journal article 2022
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Ghorbanpour, Ali Karbalaye (author), Kisekka, Isaya (author), Afshar, Abbas (author), Hessels, T.M. (author), Taraghi, Mahdi (author), Hessari, Behzad (author), Tourian, Mohammad J. (author), Duan, Zheng (author)Scarce water resources present a major hindrance to ensuring food security. Crop water productivity (WP), embraced as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is playing an integral role in the performance-based evaluation of agricultural systems and securing sustainable food production. This study aims at developing a cloud-based...journal article 2022
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Javier, Luisa (author), Farhat, Nadia M. (author), Vrouwenvelder, J.S. (author)A critical problem in seawater reverse osmosis (RO) filtration processes is biofilm accumulation, which reduces system performance and increases energy requirements. As a result, membrane systems need to be periodically cleaned by combining chemical and physical protocols. Nutrient limitation in the feed water is a strategy to control biofilm...journal article 2021
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Goveas, Akhilesh (author)The rapid growth in world population and increasing demands have led to the lack of fresh water, taking a toll on several of earths reserves, mainly the fresh water supply reserves. Water stress deters economic growth, leads to conflicts and has a direct impact on the health of humans. Studies show the trends in the<br/>increase of water...master thesis 2020
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Kassing, R.C. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Abraham, E. (author)Distributing water optimally is a complex problem that many farmers face yearly, especially in times of drought. In this work, we propose optimization‐based feedback control to improve crop yield and water productivity in agriculture irrigation for a plantation consisting of multiple fields. The interaction between soil, water, crop (sugarcane...journal article 2020
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Tantawy, Iman (author)Water scarcity has been a growing problem for many places around the world as water usage has been increasing with double the rate of population growth in the twentieth century. As agriculture accounts for 70 percent of global freshwater withdrawals, fresh water availability will thus face even greater stress (World Bank, 2013). Sustainable...master thesis 2019
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Tantawy, Iman (author)Water use has increased with double the rate of population growth in the twentieth century. Combined with changing diets due to increased global economic wealth, almost 50 per cent more food needs to be produced to meet demand, implying that fresh water availability will face even greater stress. At the same time, climate change is predicted to...student report 2019
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Kiptala, Jeremiah K. (author), Mul, Marloes (author), Mohamed, Yasir (author), Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author), van der Zaag, P. (author)Scarcity of information on the water productivity of different water, land, and other ecosystems in Africa, hampers the optimal allocation of the limited water resources. This study presents an innovative method to quantify the spatial variability of biomass production, crop yield, and economic water productivity, in a data scarce landscape...journal article 2018
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Hoogmoet, Gijs (author), Klop, stijn (author), Mulder, Esmée (author), Nederlof, Ilse (author), Vleugels, Jef (author), van der Vliet, Nils (author)IHE-Delft in cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) conducts a pilot project on assessing Crop Water Productivity in Asia, aiming to contribute to sustainable development in Asia’s irrigation sector, and create more value from scarce water resources. Indonesia is one of the 6 pilot countries where advanced technologies to measure...student report 2017
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Groen, Charlotte (author)Expected increase of world wide food demand requires improvement of efficient water use in agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Netherlands and many more key actors at the level of policy, research and...master thesis 2017
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Noordhoek Hegt, Floris (author)Many regions in the world depend heavily on expensive desalinated water for fresh water consumption, in particular tropical areas. Current mainstream desalination technologies (Reverse Osmosis and Multi-Stage Flash Evaporation) are quite energy intensive and thus costly. Today’s challenge is to design a desalination system that could run with...master thesis 2017
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Kiptala, J.K. (author)For integrated water resources management both blue and green water resources in a river basin and their spatial and temporal distribution have to be considered. This is because green and blue water uses are interdependent. In sub-Saharan Africa, the upper landscapes are often dominated by rainfed and supplementary irrigated agriculture that...doctoral thesis 2016
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Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author), Karimi, P. (author), Rebelo, L.M. (author), Duan, Z. (author), Senay, G. (author), Muttuwatte, L. (author), Smakhtin, V. (author)The increasing competition for water resources requires a better understanding of flows, fluxes, stocks, and the services and benefits related to water consumption. This paper explains how public domain Earth Observation data based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Second Generation Meteosat (MSG), Tropical Rainfall...journal article 2014
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Karimi, P. (author)This thesis introduces Water Accounting Plus (WA+), which is a new framework designed to provide explicit spatial information on water depletion and net withdrawal processes in complex river basins. WA+ is a simple, yet comprehensive and understandable water accounting framework that provides a standardized way of data collection and a...doctoral thesis 2014
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Makurira, H. (author)The challenge of water scarcity as a result of insufficient seasonal rainfall and dry spell occurrences during cropping seasons is compounded by inefficient agricultural practices by smallholder farmers where insignificant soil and water conservation efforts are applied. The hypothesis of this research is that many of the past research efforts...doctoral thesis 2010
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Zwart, S.J. (author)Agriculture is the largest consumer and water. In the context of an increasing population and less water available for the agricultural sector, the water productivity needs to be sustained or increased to secure food security. This study provides benchmark values for water productivity for the major crops globally. Data were obtained from a...doctoral thesis 2010
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Temesgen, M.L. (author)Conservation tillage systems have been adopted by farmers in many countries to solve the problem of land degradation and declining water productivity. However, direct application of such tillage systems was not possible among resource poor smallholder farmers in semi arid areas of Ethiopia. Problems such as shortage of rainfall, cost of...doctoral thesis 2007
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Vink, C. (author)Resource management in densely populated and technologically developed countries is faced with changing conditions, tending towards increased complexity. Some examples of these trends are: * increasing scarcity of resources and hence increased need for efficient production; * increasing number of objectives, such as those referring to ecological...report 2006