An application of the water footprint assessment to optimize production of crops irrigated with saline water: A scenario assessment with HYDRUS

• Published in: Agricultural water management Vol. 208; pp. 67 - 82
• Main Authors: Karandish, Fatemeh, Šimůnek, Jiří
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 30.09.2018
• Subjects: agricultural management; aquifers; crop yield; crops; deficit irrigation; economic impact; Economic water productivity; farms; fertilizer rates; freshwater; Grey water footprint; HYDRUS; irrigation rates; irrigation water; Maize; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; Numerical simulations; pollution load; root zone drying; saline water; salinity; Salt stress; solutes; wastewater; water conservation; Water deficit; water footprint; water quality standards; Grey water footprint; Economic water productivity; Numerical simulations; Salt stress; Water deficit; Maize; HYDRUS

•A combined field-modeling approach was used to formulate targets for minimizing the maize water footprint.•HYDRUS-2D was used to simulate water and solute dynamics under PRD with water-salinity-fertility stresses.•Preventing environmental damage for saline irrigation requires rescheduling irrigatio...