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Water, Volume 7, Issue 2

February 2015 - 25 articles

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Articles (25)

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
10,141 Views
24 Pages

Target Detection Method for Water Mapping Using Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Imagery

  • Luyan Ji,
  • Xiurui Geng,
  • Kang Sun,
  • Yongchao Zhao and
  • Peng Gong

13 February 2015

Extracting surface water distribution with satellite imagery has been an important subject in remote sensing. Spectral indices of water only use information from a limited number of bands, thus they may have poor performance from pixels contaminated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,003 Views
15 Pages

Spatial Variability of Escherichia coli in Rivers of Northern Coastal Ecuador

  • Gouthami Rao,
  • Joseph N. S. Eisenberg,
  • David G. Kleinbaum,
  • William Cevallos,
  • Gabriel Trueba and
  • Karen Levy

13 February 2015

The use of contaminated surface water continues to be a pressing issue in areas of the world where people lack improved drinking water sources. In northern coastal Ecuador, many communities rely on untreated surface water as their primary source of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,649 Views
31 Pages

12 February 2015

Climate change is supposed to remarkably affect the water resources of coastal lagoons as they are highly vulnerable to changes occurring at their catchment and/or ocean or sea boundaries. Probable impacts of projected climate changes on catchment hy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,052 Views
33 Pages

12 February 2015

Ground-based precipitation data are still the dominant input type for hydrological models. Spatial variability in precipitation can be represented by spatially interpolating gauge data using various techniques. In this study, the effect of daily prec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,757 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2015

Using distributed hydrological models to evaluate the effectiveness of reducing non-point source pollution by applying best management practices (BMPs) is an important support to decision making for watershed management. However, complex interfaces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,502 Views
18 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Streamflow Trends in Northern Taiwan

  • Chen-Feng Yeh,
  • Jinge Wang,
  • Hsin-Fu Yeh and
  • Cheng-Haw Lee

10 February 2015

Streamflow is an important factor in the study of water resource management, floods, and droughts. Dramatic climate change has created extreme rainfall distributions, making the study of streamflow trends and variability even more crucial. In this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,813 Views
27 Pages

Water Markets in Spain: Performance and Challenges

  • Sara Palomo-Hierro,
  • José A. Gómez-Limón and
  • Laura Riesgo

10 February 2015

Law 46/1999 incorporated formal water markets into the Spanish legal and regulatory framework, allowing spot water markets and the creation of water banks. The implementation of water markets in Spain aimed at improving the efficiency of water use by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,078 Views
18 Pages

10 February 2015

As an attempt to improve the performances of multi-entry gullies with applications to drainage system of a building, the hydrodynamic characteristics of air-water flows through the gullies with and without swirl generation vanes (SGV) are experimenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,015 Views
19 Pages

Biomonitoring of Epilobium hirsutum L. Health Status to Assess Water Ecotoxicity in Constructed Wetlands Treating Mixtures of Contaminants

  • Anna Guittonny-Philippe,
  • Véronique Masotti,
  • Jacques Rabier,
  • Marie-Eléonore Petit,
  • Laure Malleret,
  • Bruno Coulomb and
  • Isabelle Laffont-Schwob

10 February 2015

For the treatment of wastewater containing organic pollutants and metals in constructed wetlands (CWs), phytoindicators may help in guiding management practices for plants and optimizing phytoremediation processes. Hairy willow-herb (Epilobium hirsut...

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