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The water stress problem has the potential to grow regionally. However, there are currently no systematic field measurements of water withdrawn from rivers or groundwater to supply irrigation systems. In this work, we merge remote sensing and river gauge data to assess both the amount of water used for irrigation in Western Bahia and also its consequences for regional water stress, identifying water conflict situations and assessing water security. Remote sensing products used include time series of the normalized difference vegetation index, evapotranspiration, and rainfall. Field data include time series of river discharge and calibration data for crop status and actual evapotranspiration. From calibrated remote sensing products, three-day water balances were calculated for each center pivot using computations of irrigation depth and water uptake for irrigation, both individually at the center-pivot scale and integrated regionally. From these regional integrations, a simple water-use diagnostic indicated that three sub-basins presented the most critical conditions for water conflicts. An in-depth analysis of these sub-basins shows that, despite the high water stress, water use for irrigation has been steadily increasing, pushing the water use to its limits. This work demonstrates that the use of remote sensing products together with field data is a powerful tool for diagnosing water conflict situations. The limitations of this work relate to the absence of field data to validate the water uptake estimated and to the lack of additional long-term and high-quality river flow stations to provide diagnostics for all small basins in the region.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12223725","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,12]],"date-time":"2020-11-12T20:17:52Z","timestamp":1605212272000},"page":"3725","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["A Remote Sensing Diagnosis of Water Use and Water Stress in a Region with Intense Irrigation Growth in Brazil"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3548-0150","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana Beatriz","family":"Santos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Engineering, The Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, Vi\u00e7osa 36570-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6874-9315","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marcos","family":"Heil Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Engineering, The Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, Vi\u00e7osa 36570-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8795-8793","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Everardo","family":"Chartuni Mantovani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Engineering, The Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, Vi\u00e7osa 36570-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6674-2873","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Igor","family":"Boninsenha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Engineering, The Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, Vi\u00e7osa 36570-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marina","family":"Castro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Engineering, The Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, Vi\u00e7osa 36570-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"ANA, Ag\u00eancia Nacional de \u00c1guas (2020, July 06). 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