This review article positions water front-and-center as a key enabler of water–energy–food (WEF) nexus systems. It demonstrates the critical role of water in human civilization, progress, and development, including how water is central to the achievement of many of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. It is suggested that water may in fact be the most important resource needed in a broader WEF nexus context, as well as in the broader scope of human development. The review shows the consequences of ‘water going wrong’ – when there is too much or too little, and the global impacts of increasing frequency of such events, largely due to an ever more ‘hyperconnected’ world. The review concludes by urging greater ‘nexus awareness’ and systems thinking, especially in policy and decision-making, while cautioning against the potentially ironic situation of returning to a sectoral, water-centric view of resources management.
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Water as a key enabler of nexus systems (water–energy–food)
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- 15 May 2023, e1
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Managing water across the flood–drought spectrum: Experiences from and challenges for the Netherlands
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- 30 May 2023, e2
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The price and value of water: An economic review
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- 17 May 2023, e3
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Water sector infrastructure systems resilience: A social–ecological–technical system-of-systems and whole-life approach
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- 05 June 2023, e4
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Water-energy-food-environment nexus in action: Global review of precepts and practice
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- 25 July 2023, e5
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Progress in delivering SDG6: Safe water and sanitation
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- 12 July 2023, e6
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Research and policy priorities to address drought and irrigation water resource risks in temperate agriculture
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- 15 August 2023, e7
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Should we turn sewerage modelling on its head?
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- 29 August 2023, e8
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Introducing Cambridge Prisms Water: Solutions for managing an essential resource and critical hazard
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- 06 September 2023, e9
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Hydroinformatics: A review and future outlook
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- 26 September 2023, e10
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Nature-based solutions for floods AND droughts AND biodiversity: Do we have sufficient proof of their functioning?
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- 16 October 2023, e11
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Water law
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- 12 October 2023, e12
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Place for sociohydrology in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward
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- 08 November 2023, e13
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Artificial intelligence underpins urban water infrastructure of the future: A holistic perspective
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Progress toward alleviating preventable waterborne diseases over the past 30 years
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A review of wind-driven hydrodynamics in large shallow lakes: Importance, process-based modeling and perspectives
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Back to the future: A personal perspective on water and climate change
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- 05 October 2023, e17
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