Abstract:Global forecasts show that demand for freshwater, energy, and food will increase in the coming decades due to water scarcity, technological advancement, resource depletion, growing demand for food and diverse diets, population growth, economic development, climate change, and urbanization (Norouzi & Kalantari, 2020). Currently, agriculture, with a consumption of about 70% of the total freshwater resources in the world, is the largest consumer of water (Barreira et al., 2021;Afshar et al., 2021;Molajou et al., … Show more
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