Water demand of central pivot-irrigated areas in Bahia, Brazil: management of water resources applied to sustainable production

Ribeiro, Wilian Rodrigues; Gonçalves, Morgana Scaramussa; Ferreira, Daniel Soares; Gonçalves, Dalila da Costa; Almeida, Samira Luns Hatum de; Sales, Ramon Amaro de; Siman, Felipe Cunha; Venâncio, Luan Peroni; Reis, Edvaldo Fialho dos

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“…This small proportion of freshwater is the driver of human health, the global economy, and the well-being of societies in the broadest sense (Rani et al, 2021). Unfortunately, despite the importance of water to humans, the world has failed to sustainably manage its water resources (Ribeiro et al, 2021). Over the past century, available freshwater resources have come under increasing pressure as withdrawal rates have increased almost sixfold.…”

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A fuzzy-DEA water sustainability index: an application in European Union water risk hotspots

Castro-Pardo

Martín

Martínez

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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The current global freshwater crisis threatens the present and future supply of water as a resource for humans. The scarcity of drinking water and the dependence of the food industry on water-intensive supply chains require the urgent development of strategies to analyze and guarantee the water sustainability of countries. This study proposes a fuzzy-data envelopment analysis composite index that measures, from a benchmarking approach, water sustainability by simultaneously considering capacity and resilience, and captures the uncertainty associated with time series variations in three scenarios: pessimistic, indifferent and optimistic. We present and apply an index based on five indicators of capacity and five indicators of resilience in ten European Union countries water risk hotspots. The results in terms of capacity presented a higher variability due to the strong growth in the exploitation of water resources in Greece, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. The most sustainable countries in terms of capacity were Bulgaria and Estonia in a pessimistic and an indifferent scenario and France and Bulgaria in an optimistic scenario. In terms of resilience, Belgium and Portugal were the most sustainable countries. When considering capacity and resilience together, some countries such as Bulgaria and Estonia lost positions in the ranking, with Belgium occupying the first position. Some countries, such as Bulgaria, could see the sustainability of their water resources compromised in a scenario of economic development if they do not improve their governance and water productivity constraints.

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