Water and development

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      authors => protected'Mehta, P.; Muller, M.; Niles, M. T.; Davis, K.&nbsp
         ;F.' (79 chars)
      title => protected'Child diet diversity and irrigation expansion in the global south' (65 chars)
      journal => protected'Nature Sustainability' (21 chars)
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      description => protected'Irrigation expansion has been promoted as a way to improve global nutrition 
         and health by increasing food production and income. However, its impact on 
         the health and nutrition of local communities is unclear and might vary subs
         tantially across contexts, depending on who reaps the benefits and how. Here
          we combine georeferenced survey data from 9,144 rural communities (70,817 h
         ouseholds) across 26 global south countries with data on global patterns of 
         irrigation infrastructure changes to examine linkages between irrigation exp
         ansion and local changes in child diet diversity—a key indicator of micron
         utrient intake and development. We found a positive link between irrigation 
         and child diet diversity, with substantial regional differences. Irrigation 
         benefits were concentrated in regions without sufficient water resources to 
         support it, suggesting trade-offs between dietary improvements and water str
         ess. By contrast, irrigated areas with sufficient water tend to produce high
         er fractions of cash crops and export-oriented food items, with weaker assoc
         iations to improved local diets. These findings suggest that while irrigatio
         n access is associated with overall improvements of child diet diversity in 
         rural communities, water stress conditions can influence these outcomes. Nut
         rition-sensitive strategies thus need to be considered as an essential compo
         nent of sustainable irrigation planning in the future.' (1422 chars)
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      doi => protected'10.1038/s41893-025-01584-y' (26 chars)
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      authors => protected'Mehta, P.; Müller, M.; Niles, M. T.; Davis, K.&nbs
         p;F.' (80 chars)
      title => protected'Nutritional outcomes of irrigation expansion' (44 chars)
      journal => protected'Nature Sustainability' (21 chars)
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      description => protected'Assessing linkages between irrigation expansion and child diet diversity in 
         the global south revealed larger diet diversity improvements in water-stress
         ed regions. Future irrigation planning should explicitly incorporate nutriti
         on-sensitive strategies to ensure food security of local communities while m
         aintaining sustainable water withdrawals.' (345 chars)
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      doi => protected'10.1038/s41893-025-01593-x' (26 chars)
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      authors => protected'Verstraete, W.; Strubbe, L.; Pikaar, I.; Vinestock, T.&n
         bsp;W.; Lee, P. H.; Matassa, S.; Chong, J.; Zhou, J
         .; Daigger, G. T.; Guo, M.' (193 chars)
      title => protected'Escaping historical lock-in─Redesigning wastewater treatment plants and th
         eir microbiomes for the 21st century' (112 chars)
      journal => protected'Environmental Science and Technology' (36 chars)
      year => protected2025 (integer)
      volume => protected59 (integer)
      issue => protected'29' (2 chars)
      startpage => protected'14862' (5 chars)
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      categories => protected'WWTP; microbiome; wastewater; portable water; resource recovery; optimizatio
         n; machine learning' (95 chars)
      description => protected'Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have gradually, over the last hundred ye
         ars, been designed and extended to deal with a sequence of problems, includi
         ng a) odor, b) suspended solids, c) organics, d) ammonia, e) nitrate and pho
         sphate, and f) recalcitrant pollutants. The line of historical developments 
         was piecemeal rather than holistic and did not focus on sustainability, reso
         urce recovery, and water reuse. On the contrary, microbial processes that ac
         celerated the removal of nitrogen were incorporated and heralded as a positi
         ve part of the "cleanup" agenda, despite their relatively large energy consu
         mption and substantial production of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.
          The time has come to examine the historical, technological, and microbiolog
         ical lock-in present in today's WWTPs, so that a more coherent integrated sy
         stem can be developed for future generations. Some disruptive strategies are
          outlined, and a categorization of processes in terms of their potential for
          the future is formulated.' (1014 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'0013-936X' (9 chars)
      doi => protected'10.1021/acs.est.5c06208' (23 chars)
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