Water availability and quality: natural environments, domestic use and food production (WaterSci)

水的可用性和质量：自然环境、家庭使用和粮食生产（WaterSci）

• 批准号: EP/G042683/1
• 负责人: William Davies
• 金额: $ 165.99万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG042683%2F1
• 关键词: Water; availability; quality; natural; environments

This project addresses perhaps the greatest challenge facing humankind: feeding a world population approaching 7 billion against a background of growing concern over our planet's capacity to adapt to a changing climate. The recent IPCC report (http://www.ipcc.ch/) highlights both a predicted increase of 2-4oC in global surface warming by 2100 and significant perturbation in patterns and intensity of rainfall predicted to lead to serious droughts and more frequent flooding, both severe problems for food production and for the maintenance of a safe and secure water supply. Now, possibly more than at any time in the past, is there a need for innovation to ensure we can successfully meet such a global challenge. Improvement in security of supply and quality of water would also have a significant positive impact on sustainable development and health in parts of the world increasingly important to the UK as emerging markets. To meet this challenge, we need innovation to: quantify agricultural water requirements; increase water and resource use efficiency in food production; quantify and ameliorate the extent, source, fate and health impacts of water contamination; develop new environmental modelling capabilities; adopt emerging intelligent environmental sensor technology and take greater use of biosolids and wastewater. The WaterSci bid from the Lancaster Environment Centre and several labs in China, a partnership which leads the world in sustainable water management, proposes to focus on the development and exploitation of tools to deliver on this global innovation challenge and market opportunity.

这个项目也许是为了解决人类面临的最大挑战：在人们日益关注我们地球适应气候变化的能力的背景下，为接近70亿的世界人口提供食物。气候小组最近的报告（http：//www.ipcc.ch/）着重指出，到2100年，全球地表温度预计将上升2- 4摄氏度，降雨模式和强度预计将受到严重干扰，导致严重干旱和更频繁的洪涝，这对粮食生产和维持安全可靠的供水都是严重问题。现在，可能比以往任何时候都更需要创新，以确保我们能够成功应对这样一个全球性挑战。供水安全和水质的改善也将对世界上一些地区的可持续发展和健康产生重大的积极影响，这些地区作为新兴市场对英国越来越重要。为了应对这一挑战，我们需要创新：量化农业用水需求;提高粮食生产中的水和资源利用效率;量化和改善水污染的程度、来源、归宿和健康影响;开发新的环境建模能力;采用新兴的智能环境传感器技术，并更多地利用生物固体和废水。由兰开斯特环境中心和中国的几个实验室组成的WaterSci投标，是一个在可持续水管理方面引领世界的合作伙伴关系，建议专注于开发和利用工具，以应对这一全球创新挑战和市场机遇。

项目成果

Recovering phosphorus from soil: a root solution?

• DOI: 10.1021/es2044745
• 发表时间: 2012-01
• 期刊: Environmental science & technology
• 影响因子: 11.4
• 作者: M. Stutter;C. Shand;T. George;M. Blackwell;R. Bol;R. MacKay;A. Richardson;L. Condron;Benjamin L Tur

Stomatal and growth responses to hydraulic and chemical changes induced by progressive soil drying.

土壤逐渐干燥引起的水力和化学变化的气孔和生长反应

• DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx381
• 发表时间: 2017-12-16
• 期刊: Journal of experimental botany
• 影响因子: 6.9
• 作者: Li X;Wilkinson S;Shen J;Forde BG;Davies WJ
• 通讯作者: Davies WJ

The rhizobacterium Variovorax paradoxus 5C-2, containing ACC deaminase, promotes growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana via an ethylene-dependent pathway.

• DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert031
• 发表时间: 2013-04
• 期刊: Journal of experimental botany
• 影响因子: 6.9
• 作者: Chen L;Dodd IC;Theobald JC;Belimov AA;Davies WJ
• 通讯作者: Davies WJ