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Growing water scarcity, food security and government responses in China

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Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the changing trends in water supply and demand balance, their impacts on food production, and government policy responses, and showed that water scarcity in China is a regional issue, mainly in northern areas.
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This article is published in Global Food Security.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 104 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Farm water & Water scarcity.

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Water-Energy-Carbon Emissions nexus analysis of China: An environmental input-output model-based approach

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the nexus using the Environmental Input-Output model, and the embodied water and energy consumption and embodied carbon emissions were assessed. But, they did not consider the indirect water consumption and direct water consumption coefficients.
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The prospects for China's food security and imports: Will China starve the world via imports?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed China's food security prospects and their implications, focusing on international trade in the coming decade, and showed that China's policies for ensuring food security will be enhanced and China will move to sustainable agriculture.
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Reflections on China's food security and land use policy under rapid urbanization

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper systematically reviewed the key issues facing China's food supply security, identified the potential factors affecting the county's grain production, and put forward countermeasures to further ensure food security.
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Adaptation of paddy rice in China to climate change: The effects of shifting sowing date on yield and irrigation water requirement

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impacts of climate change on China rice yield and net irrigation water requirement (NIR) at 21 sites under a wide range of sowing date.
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Does urbanization intensify regional water scarcity? Evidence and implications from a megaregion of China

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relation between water scarcity and the multi-manifestation of urbanization in terms of demographic, social, landscape, and economic aspects, highlighting the importance of optimizing economic development mode and controlling agriculture water use to alleviate the water scarcity of megaregion.
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The global groundwater crisis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that groundwater depletion the world over poses a far greater threat to global water security than is currently acknowledged, and propose a solution to this problem.
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Groundwater Exploitation and Its Impact on the Environment in the North China Plain

TL;DR: In this article, Wang et al. showed that persistent groundwater overexploitation in the northern parts of the North China Plain (NCP) has resulted in water-level declines in both shallow and deep aquifers.

China's water shortage could shake world food security.

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TL;DR: The global concern about China's water shortages is indicated and basin supplies, global availability of grain, and reasons for water losses are described.
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Water pollution and human health in China.

TL;DR: The critical deficits in basic water supply and sewage treatment infrastructure have increased the risk of exposure to infectious and parasitic disease and to a growing volume of industrial chemicals, heavy metals, and algal toxins, and the water quality problems observed as well as the health threats identified are likely to become more acute.
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Quaternary Aquifer of the North China Plain—assessing and achieving groundwater resource sustainability

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused upon the hydrogeologic and socio-economic diagnosis of these groundwater resource issues, and identified strategies to improve groundwater resource sustainability, which has encountered increasing difficulties in recent years primarily due to aquifer depletion and related phenomena.
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