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ReviewHeliyon2023

Fresh water resource, scarcity, water salinity challenges and possible remedies: A review.

Wondimu Musie, Girma Gonfa

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Review in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Effects of Salinity Stress on Grasspea (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  17. Prevalence and Distribution ofMicroorganisms · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Wondimu MusieDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, 16417, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Girma GonfaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, 16417, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water is one of the natural resource due balance if our planet and the life on it have to sustain and economic development to be expected in the future. The increase in population of the world and level of wealth of humans is expected to withdraw more freshwater. However, since water is already one of the limited resources, global per capital water available surely drops and water shortage happens. Pollution of ground and surface water by dissolved salts are increasing and exacerbating this water shortage situation. The sources of these dissolved salts (such as primary and secondary salinity-causing agents) are known to change the chemical constituent of water. Once contributing factors for water scarcity are identified, future man should work on it to overcome the challenge. This paper therefore began with global water resource information and indicated different levels of scarcity to give overall clues on the situation. Salinity description, its global status, causative factors and challenges were revised before possible recommendations were indicated as indispensable solution.

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Fresh waterSalinityWater per capitalWater salinityWater scarcityWater withdrawal

Identifiers

PMID37554830
PMCPMC10405016

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