Water, Volume 16, Issue 24

Intensifying urbanization and climate change have highlighted the growing role of low-impact development (LID) practices in urban rainwater management systems. However, there is still room for improvement to optimally deploy LID practices, especially...

Water temperature (WT) is a crucial factor indicating the quality of water in the river system. Given the significant variability in water quality, it is vital to devise more precise methods to forecast temperature in river systems and assess the wat...

As irrigation districts rapidly advance in terms of informatization, research on intelligent water quantity control technologies for open channels has gained increasing importance. This study aims to investigate the flow capacity and hydraulic charac...

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the advancements and challenges of anaerobic digestion technology in waste stream treatment plants under the framework of the circular economy, emphasizing its role in achieving “dual carbon&rdqu...

The contamination of heavy metals (HMs) in the topsoil of agricultural and pastoral areas threatens the yield and quality of agriculture and animal husbandry and also endangers regional ecological security and human health. This study analyzed the HM...

Driven by the rapid advancement of the economy and urbanization, substantial alterations in land use patterns have taken place, exerting certain impacts on groundwater. This study examines the land use changes in Zhengzhou’s central urban area...

In cold-region mines, the dual effects of heat islands and cold islands, caused by cycling of hot and cold temperature extremes, facilitate the outward dispersion of heavy metal dust. Freeze–thaw cycles occurring in ice provide a conducive envi...

The complexity of watershed pollution governance necessitates the involvement of multiple stakeholders, with increasing emphasis on public participation. In response, China introduced the river chief system and gradually established civilian river ch...

Debris content plays an important role in controlling erosion capacity and sedimentation characteristics during outburst floods. Numerical models should incorporate sediments in hazard analyses to obtain more accurate assessments of outburst flood ma...

This study aimed to investigate the distribution of commonly used pesticides and their metabolites in drinking water before and after treatment at drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) in the Yangtze River Delta and to assess the health risks from...

Studying the temporal and spatial variation characteristics and driving factors of carbon reserves in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration is crucial for achieving sustainable development and regional ecological conservation ag...

The global water crisis, which intensifies each year, underscores the urgent need for accurate assessment and sustainable management of freshwater resources. Lakes, as significant components of surface water systems, are particularly vulnerable to hu...

In this study, we build an empirical model to estimate pigments in the South American Lake Villarrica. We use data from Dirección General de Aguas de Chile during the period of 1989–2024 to analyze the behavior of limnological parameters...

Real-time control (RTC) can be applied to optimize the operation of the anaerobic–anoxic–oxic (A2O) process in wastewater treatment for energy saving. In recent years, many studies have utilized deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to constr...

The offshore jacket structure has the advantages of suitable stiffness, convenient construction, anti-collision, and strong fatigue resistance, and it is the main structural form of offshore converter station. By constructing a numerical wave tank fo...

Constructed wetland (CW) is a critical ecological engineering for wastewater treatment and improvement of water quality. Nitrogen (N) removal is one of the vital functions of CWs during operation, and N treatment in CWs is mainly affected by aquatic...

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) hold significant potential for sustainable aquaculture by providing a stable, controlled environment that supports optimal fish growth and welfare. In RAS, ammonium (NH₄⁺) is biologically converted into nitrate...

Rainfall infiltration is the primary triggering factor for the instability of unsaturated slopes. At present, rainfall-induced landslides are mainly considered to be influenced by the overall infiltration conditions, while few investigations have bee...

Weather forecasting is a classical problem in remote sensing, in which precipitation is difficult to predict accurately because of its complex physical motion. Precipitation significantly impacts human life, work, and the ecological environment. Prec...

Emerging pollutants such as butylparaben (BP) are often difficult to remove via conventional wastewater treatment. Therefore, this study aimed to produce and characterize graphene oxide (GO) and evaluate the adsorption of BP on this adsorbent. The GO...

The chemistry of atmospheric precipitation serves as an important proxy for discriminating the source(s) of air contaminants in urban environments as well as to discuss the dynamic of atmospheric chemistry exchanges. This approach can be undertaken a...

Adsorption desalination (AD) has emerged as a novel technique for desalination, which works cyclically and via switching, and various variables have an effect on its performance. This study uses machine learning procedures to present a model predicti...

Background: We explore how springs and their pastures are utilised by nomadic pastoralists and how they influence interchange and conflict between the custodians of the springs and the society of pastoralists in the broader region. Methods: The custo...

The implementation of accurate water balance assessment in glacier basins is essential for the management and sustainable development of water resources in the basins. In this study, a hybrid modeling framework was constructed to enhance runoff predi...

Submerged macrophytes play a crucial role in the ecological restoration of water bodies, and their restoration capacity is closely related to the underwater lighting conditions. This study explored the effects of underwater lighting time on the growt...

Algae communities as primary producers are essential elements of aquatic ecosystems and contribute significantly to oxygen production, carbon dioxide fixation, and nutrient transport processes in water bodies. The use of algae-based carbon capture an...

The remediation of industrial wastewater to eliminate heavy metal ions represents a pressing environmental requirement. A previously prepared adsorbent, based on chitosan modified with uracil (UCs), was investigated for the first time in this work to...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), floods are one of the most important natural disasters in the world, resulting in the severe loss of human lives and intense destruction of infrastructure. The frequent floods in recent decades have c...

In the context of growing concerns over food security and climate change, research on sustainable agricultural development increasingly emphasizes the interconnections within agricultural systems. This study developed a regionally integrated optimiza...

In this work, we present a comprehensive extension of the Surface–Underground–Recharge (SUR) water supply model through the incorporation of generalized conformable derivatives. This operator enables the capture of more exotic dynamics wi...

Girdling is a crucial technique for promoting the close-to-nature transformation of plantation forests in Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park (HNNP). It has shown effectiveness in aspects such as community structure and biodiversity restoration....

The accurate identification of precipitation types is very important for understanding the hydrological processes in cold regions. Existing identification methods have been established based on daily precipitation and meteorological data, which canno...

This editorial provides a definitive review of ten articles published in the Special Issue of the journal Water, entitled “Water Resource Management: Hydrological Modelling, Hydrological Cycles, and Hydrological Prediction” [...]

Flooding of water, sediment, and driftwood and its associated landform changes often occurs downstream of debris-flow deposition zones in small, mountainous river basins. This type of flooding occurs due to a sudden decrease in the sediment transport...

To enhance the accuracy of dam displacement prediction, this paper proposes a hybrid model combining Random Forest (RF), a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and a Residual Attention Informer (RA-Informer). Firstly, RF is utilized to assess the impo...

Sediment transport can be observed within the flow of water in rivers, canals, and coastal regions, encompassing both suspended-load transport and bed-load transport. Bed-load transport specifically occurs near the riverbed, playing a crucial role in...

Increasing urbanisation is occurring in Australia’s major cities and in almost every country in the world. This creates a challenge for the urban water sector, which not only needs to provide traditional water services (i.e., wastewater, domest...

Rivers and estuaries are recognized as significant sources of atmospheric greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N₂O), primarily through diffusive pathways. Anthropogenic nitrogen contributions to surface water bodies can alter the baseline emissions from nat...

In recent decades, global ecosystems have increasingly faced impacts from heightened precipitation variability. Specifically, water availability is an essential factor in wetland dynamics and has ecological importance in the high-Andean wetlands in b...

Groundwater contamination with sub-lethal dissolved contaminants poses significant health risks globally, especially in rural India, where access to safe drinking water remains a critical challenge. This study explores the hydrogeochemical characteri...

As the global shift from fossil fuels to the Paris Agreement has accelerated, wind energy has become a key alternative to hydroelectric power. However, existing research often needs to improve in integrating diverse environmental, economic, and clima...

Understanding the spatial patterns and driving mechanisms of net primary productivity (NPP) and precipitation utilization efficiency (PUE) is crucial for assessing ecosystem services. This study analyzed the variations in NPP and PUE in Heilongjiang...

This study investigates the influence of roughness on the transient flow behavior in the chamber based on the performance requirements of the pump rotor–stator chamber, aiming to elucidate the mechanism of roughness in real operating conditions...

The overuse of antibiotics in human society poses a global health challenge, necessitating effective treatment of antibiotic production wastewater. This study examines the microbial community within activated sludge in anaerobic digestion (AD) and bi...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, known as the “water tower of the world,” is experiencing severe water scarcity due to declining discharge of spring water across the HKH region. This decline is driven by climate change, unsustainabl...

The increasing presence of compostable bioplastics as substitutes for conventional fossil-based plastics necessitates a deeper understanding of their environmental impacts, particularly in marine ecosystems, where they often accumulate. This study ex...

Seasonal variation information is very important information for reservoir operation and water resources management. Traditional flood season division relies primarily on statistical methods and does not consider the specific regional rainy patterns....

Payments for ecosystem (or environmental) services (PES) encourage land users to manage their land in ways that deliver environmental benefits. This study aimed to assess the water quality in a rural property located in the Protection and Recovery of...

The spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients is crucial for the water bird and whole floodplain wetland ecosystem in large lakes, and it is influenced by the dramatic water level changes and sedimentation progress in West Dongting Lake (WDL). Soil sam...

Flood events severely damage the biodiversity and ecological functions of wetlands, posing a major threat to the health and stability of wetland ecosystems. Plants play a crucial role in maintaining the stability and balance of these ecosystems by pr...