Agricultural water use accounts for the largest proportion of water withdrawal, so improving agricultural water use efficiency is an important way to alleviate water shortage. However, the expected water saving by the improved agricultural water use efficiency may be offset by the rebound effect,...

Water shortage is a serious threat to agriculture production in the North China Plain. Sustainable management practices can improve the water use efficiency of winter wheat, but currently no academic consensus has been reached. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis that included 2194 observations ...

Improving plant water use efficiency is a key strategy for the utilization of regional limited water resources as well as the sustainable development of agriculture industry. To investigate the effects of different land use types on plant water use efficiency and their mechanisms, a randomized...

In this study, it was aimed to improve water-use efficiency and improve environmental performance with techno-economic water-use efficiency practices in an integrated textile mill that produces woven and knitted fabrics. In this context, detailed on-site investigations and data collection studies...

To explore the effect of technological progress on temporal and spatial differences of agricultural water use efficiency under, firstly, super efficiency SBM (slacks-based measure) model was used to calculate agricultural water use efficiency of major grain producing areas in China from 2009 to...

Absorption of water from seawater with its high osmotic pressure is costly to mangroves and requires the plants to use water conservatively. Indeed, measurements of gas exchange, growth rate and carbon isotope composition have shown that mangrove species operate with higher water-use efficiency...

Introduction: Water scarcity and its limitation are the main limiting factor for irrigated agriculture. One of the ways to maintain moisture in the soil is to use super-absorbent materials and plant greenhouse crops. Cultivars of the plant produce fruits in different colors, including red, yellow...

The growth and survival rates of plants are greatly affected by rainfall in desert steppe. This research investigated the soil water fluctuations after rainfall events for four consecutive years from 2017 to 2020 in an Artemisia scoparia population in an Eastern Ningxia desert steppe. We determined ...

Shortage of water drives efforts to increase water use efficiency in agriculture. However, identification of hot-spots of water use inefficiency in agriculture is hindered by difficulty of monitoring the large number of factors that influence water use for irrigation. The goal of this study was to...

Field water use efficiency is an important parameter for evaluating the quality of field irrigation in irrigated areas, which directly affects the country's food security and water resource allocation. However, most current studies use point-scale soil moisture (SM) or remote sensing water balance...