Water, Volume 16, Issue 21

When utilizing the Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI), the most critical factor is accurately measuring canopy temperature, which is typically done using infrared sensors and imaging cameras. In this study, however, we aimed to develop a machine learning...

Water quality and aquatic ecosystems along lakeshores are vital for ecological balance and human well-being. However, research has primarily focused on plankton, with benthic niches being largely overlooked. To enhance understanding of benthic microb...

Reservoirs deliver vital ecological services, including water storage and drainage. However, these functions are increasingly compromised by the dual pressures of climate change and human activities. Among the most pressing concerns is reservoir sedi...

Stream gauge height (water level) is a significant indicator for forecasting future floods. Flooding occurs when the water level exceeds the flood stage. Predicting imminent floods can save lives, protect infrastructure, and improve road traffic mana...

The present study focuses on a site contaminated with halogenated hydrocarbons, utilizing a detailed inventory of contamination data to achieve the precise characterization of groundwater pollution. Employing MOFLOW-2000 software, a groundwater flow...

The potential of monorhamnolipid (monoRL) biosurfactant to enhance the removal of residual dodecane from a porous medium was investigated under monoRL concentration varying from sub-CMC to hyper-CMC conditions by one-dimension column experiments. In...

The aim of this study was to evaluate a natural coagulant, Moringa oleifera seeds (MOC), to reduce the color concentration in treated tequila vinasses (TVs). TV-A was the effluent of horizontal subsurface flow wetlands (HSSFW); TV-B was the effluent...

This study investigated the potential impact of salinity levels on the treatment performance and membrane fouling of MBR seeded with sludge from saline industrial effluent treatment plants. A pilot-scale MBR received mixed saline industrial effluents...

Water security and food security are fundamental pillars of sustainable social and economic development [...]

Based on the solid–liquid two-phase flow model and the Realizable k-ε Turbulence model, numerical simulations of the sediment–water flow in the flow components of the turbine were conducted. The distribution of sediment-induced we...

Anthropogenic increases in the salinity of surface waters are referred to as secondary salinization. In surface waters, salinity levels can vary significantly due to various natural and anthropogenic influences. This article presents multi-decadal ob...

Nowadays, agricultural practices require special attention due to their important contribution to water pollution, the more so as they are associated with environmental and health impairments. Despite legislation addressing nutrient pollution, there...

Organophosphates are a type of emerging environmental contaminant, which can be removed effectively by adsorption. Here, modified steel slag was examined for its adsorptive performance in the removal of hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid (HEDP) from...

Reinjection is thought to be the most effective way to maintain reservoir pressure and production capacity for hydrothermal resources. The use of external water injection to replenish deep geothermal reservoirs is a new approach in China to addressin...

Analyzing agricultural and hydrological drought at different timescales is essential for designing adaptation strategies. This study aimed to assess agricultural and hydrological drought in the Abbay Basin of Ethiopia by using multiple indices, namel...

Cyclone separators are commonly employed in the mining, metallurgy and chemical industries due to their simple structure, easy maintenance and high recovery efficiency. However, with the wide application of cyclone separators, many problems have beco...

Computational models enable accurate, timely prediction of landslides based on the monitoring data on-site as the development of artificial intelligence technology. The most existing prediction methods focus on finding a single prediction algorithm w...

Water scarcity is a global issue, especially in semi-arid and arid regions where precipitation is irregularly distributed over time and space. Predicting groundwater flow in heterogeneous karst terrains, which are essential water sources, presents a...

Groundwater serves as a crucial resource, with its quality significantly impacted by both natural and human-induced factors. In the highly industrialized and urbanized Yangtze River Delta region, the sources of pollutants in shallow groundwater are m...

Pharmaceutical industry effluents often contain high concentrations of refractory organic solvents, chemical oxygen demand (COD), and total dissolved solids (TDSs). These wastewaters, including N-containing organic solvents known for their persistenc...

This study presents the impact of the size and shape of particles in laundry wastewater on the clogging process of a porous material. Clogging can be defined as a mechanical limitation of flow through porous media. The process of mechanical clogging...

Spillways can present a way to control the overflowing of water during flood events and prevent damage from levee breaches. With increasing interest in nature-based solutions, the interaction between flow and vegetation parameters has to be understoo...

This paper presents a Compact Integrated Water–Land Survey System (CIWS), which combines a remote sensing camera and a LiDAR module, and proposes an innovative underwater topography retrieval technique based on this system. This technique utili...

The spatial and temporal distribution of heavy rainfall across the Taihang Mountains exhibits significant variation. Due to the region’s unstable geological conditions, frequent heavy rainfall events can lead to secondary disasters such as land...

The overall goal of urban water supply is to ensure the water quality from source to tap. As the “last mile”, the building water supply system (BWSS) is the crucial part in ensuring tap water safety, and its deteriorating water quality ha...

To develop agricultural risk management strategies, the early identification of water deficits during the growing cycle is critical. This research proposes a deep learning hybrid approach for multi-step soil moisture forecasting in the Bundaberg regi...

Legal personhood has been recognized for several ecosystems worldwide, garnering significant attention from the scholarly community. This attention translated with the mobilization of approaches anchored into legal, institutional, or ethnographic per...

Because of its unique geographical properties, the Yaoquanshan area of Wudalianchi City, Heilongjiang Province, contains rich mineral water resources. We have carried out much research on the mineral water in the Yaoquanshan area of Wudalianchi City,...

Combinations of metal disinfectants (i.e., silver and copper) with chlorine in doses that meet the World Health Organization guidelines for drinking water operate synergistically to provide superior drinking water disinfection across a wide range of...

Reliable paleoflood proxies can help reconstruct past flood variation patterns. Here, we investigated the grain-size data of a 63 cm core retrieved from Lake Chaonaqiu, western Chinese Loess Plateau, in order to build a long time-series of flood occu...

Climate change scenarios have been used to evaluate future climate change impacts and develop adaptation measures to mitigate potential damage. This study investigated strategies to reduce nonpoint source loads in an agriculturally dominated watershe...

With the global ban on tributyltin (TBT), the pollution of triphenyltin (TPhT) is an emerging issue in some aquatic ecosystems. In this study, we investigated the concentrations of typical butyltin and phenyltin compounds in the surface water and sed...

Flood disasters often result in significant losses of life and property, making them among the most devastating natural hazards. Therefore, reliable and accurate water level forecasting is critically important. Rainfall-runoff modeling, which is a co...

According to fundamental concepts, the morphodynamic system of an accumulative sandy coast with underwater bars exhibits cyclic behavior across various time scales. This raises the question: which factor is more significant for the dynamics of a give...

The spiral case plays a role in providing stable and uniform water flow in the pump-turbine unit, and the overall structure with the surrounding concrete is an important foundation for the safe and stable operation of the unit and power plant. In ord...

Reanalysis datasets, such as ERA5, are essential for climate research, offering comprehensive spatiotemporal coverage. However, their accuracy needs thorough evaluation for effective regional application, particularly in areas with complex topography...

Water temperature is a critical factor for aquatic ecosystems, influencing both chemical and biological processes, such as fish growth and mortality; consequently, river and lake ecosystems are sensitive to climate change (CC). Currently proposed CC...

Black bloom is a very serious water pollution phenomenon in eutrophic lakes, with Fe(II) and S(−II) being the key limiting factors for this problem. In this paper, three different machine learning methods, namely, Random Forest (RF), Gaussian M...

The eastern coasts of Korea (ECK) and Japan (ECJ) are located at the southernmost limit of walleye pollock distribution in the Northwest Pacific. Following the climate regime shift (CRS) in the late 1980s, pollock catches in these regions have declin...

Fish passes are a key element enabling the migration of aquatic organisms in the context of restrictions resulting from the presence of weirs. Multi-criteria decision analysis, AHP, and Rembrandt methods were used to assess the effectiveness of fish...

The management of transboundary aquifers across the Americas faces significant challenges, especially as climate change and population growth intensify groundwater stress. Groundwater use has increased to support domestic, industrial, and agricultura...

Within the framework of sustainability analysis regarding the processes developed by man, water resources in rural scenarios have been a priority due to the impact generated by population growth and climate changes in tropical regions. In Colombia, t...

In this study, we visualize and analyze the literature on the Brahmaputra river using a spectral clustering algorithm, tracking research trends over time. We found that the focus of research on the Brahmaputra has changed over time in the last decade...

To realize the estimation of rainfall retention capacity for small reservoirs considering spatial soil moisture, a rainfall retention capacity model and its parameter schemes have been developed in this study. An iterative trial solution method consi...

Mining causes damage to the soil and rock mass, while rainfall has a pivotal impact on the mining slope stability, even leading to geological hazards such as landslides. Therefore, the study evaluated the mine landslide stability and determined the e...

Research on water abstraction techniques in sandy rivers is crucial for addressing water scarcity issues in northern China. This study introduces an artificial percolation water intake riverbed structural model designed to prevent sand intake and fac...

The Lancang–Mekong Region encompasses six countries, covering an area exceeding five million square kilometers and containing a population of more than 400 million. Floods in this region may cause extremely serious losses of lives and property....

The Red Sea region is considered one of the regions that suffer most from water scarcity among the Egyptian areas. This situation reinforces the importance of maximizing the utilization of available water sources. Rainwater and flood harvesting may f...

Dams are vital for irrigation, power generation, and domestic water needs, but siltation poses a significant challenge, especially in areas prone to water erosion, potentially shortening a dam’s lifespan. The Ahmed El Hansali Dam in Morocco fac...

Persulfate-based advanced oxidation processes have emerged as a promising approach for the degradation of organic pollutants in aqueous environments due to their ability to generate sulfate radicals (SO₄^−·) within catalytic systems. In t...