A global, spatially-explicit assessment of irrigated croplands influenced by urban wastewater flows

When urban areas expand without concomitant increases in wastewater treatment capacity, vast quantities of wastewater are released to surface waters with little or no treatment. Downstream of many urban areas are large areas of irrigated croplands reliant on these same surface water sources. Case st...

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Main Authors: A L Thebo, P Drechsel, E F Lambin, K L Nelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa75d1