Water, Volume 17, Issue 11

Background: Over the past decade, Shanghai primary and middle schools have installed and updated direct-drinking water facilities in compliance with local policies, but few studies have assessed the schools providing direct-drinking water access. Met...

Remote sensing and AI models have been utilized for monitoring Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), a primary indicator of eutrophication across broad water bodies. Previous studies have primarily relied on optical remote sensing data for assessing Chl-a’s s...

The possibility of hydrogen (H₂) production from sizing waste, specifically starch-based substrates, was investigated through dark fermentation. Modified starch substrates produced less (up to 54% without heating and 18% after heating) H₂ than natura...

Accurate estimation of soil moisture content (SMC) is crucial for effective water management, enabling improved monitoring of water stress and a deeper understanding of hydrological processes. While satellite remote sensing provides broad coverage, i...

Climate change, marked by decreasing rainfall and increasing extreme events, represents a major challenge for water resources, particularly in semi-arid regions. To estimate aquifer recharge, it is essential to assess the fraction of precipitation co...

Rainfall-based methods have been employed for computing hydrographs in urban drainage systems. However, their implementation often introduces uncertainty in various aspects, such as the selection of a unit hydrograph, the choice of abstraction method...

Due to the unregulated handling of e-waste, the co-existence of PBDEs and heavy metals in water bodies and soil has been detected with high frequency. However, the combined toxicity for aquatic creatures remains unclear. This study investigated the s...

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Water table fluctuation alters environment properties and n-alkane transformation, leading to shifts in the groundwater microbial community and functions. A diesel-contaminated aquifer column experiment of seasonal water table fluctuation was designe...

This review synthesizes four decades (1980–2024) of marine oil spill research in the Philippines, analyzing 80 peer-reviewed publications sourced from Scopus, Web of Science, Clarivate, and Google Scholar. Findings show that oil spill research...

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) show significant promise to degrade recalcitrant water contaminants, such as 1,4-dioxane, but slow degradation kinetics limit the energy efficiency of this technology. We realized substantial enhancements in the de...

Based on trade data from 2005 to 2020, this study investigates the driving forces behind China’s grain virtual water (VW) import trade, with a particular focus on the role of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). By incorporating economic distanc...

With the rapid advances of global climate change and urbanization, urban flooding is causing greater losses. Existing urban flood control and drainage engineering design standards are often applied to single projects. This paper proposes a set of urb...

Surface water systems face unprecedented stress due to climate variability, urbanization, land-use change, and growing water demand—prompting a shift from traditional hydrological modeling to intelligent, adaptive systems. This review critically expl...

Stormwater runoff from areas with specific industrial, agricultural or logistic land use comprises a significant source of water pollution, yet research on its specific composition remains limited compared to urban stormwater pollution. This review s...

Due to the rapid development of China’s economy, the current situation of fishing villages in the southeastern coastal areas is spatial disorder caused by changes in population composition and industrial transformation. This study analyses the...

This research assesses four Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, SSP5-8.5) concerning precipitation quantiles across Korea, utilizing the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble comprising 23 General Circulation Models along...

The water-level fluctuation zone (WLFZ) in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) has attracted significant attention because of its pivotal role in shaping environmental processes. However, with the increasing water level, the effects of nitrogen and phos...

Bimetallic catalysts can effectively enhance the catalytic degradation efficiency of peroxymonosulfate (PMS), which is usually attributed to the enhancement of electron transfer, but currently, there is no clear explanation of the mechanism of how th...

Accurate flood forecasts are imperative to supervise and prepare for extreme events to assess the risks and develop proactive prevention strategies. The flood time-series data exhibit both spatial and temporal structures and make it challenging for t...

This study focuses on assessing the hydrogeochemical characteristics and irrigation suitability of groundwater in the Ras El Aioun and Merouana districts, using an integrated approach that combines physicochemical analysis, machine learning (ML), and...

This study investigates the effectiveness of electrocoagulation (EC) with locally sourced iron electrodes for treating olive mill wastewater (OMW) prior to adsorption with olive stone (OS). Using Response Surface Methodology (RSM), 60 experiments wer...

Climate and land use changes significantly affect runoff and hydrological drought, presenting challenges for water resource management. This study focuses on the Naoli River Basin, utilizing the SWAT model integrated with PLUS land use projections un...

River pollution is a major issue in China’s urbanization process. Understanding the effects of river morphology and constructed wetlands on the self-purification capacity is crucial for water quality improvement. This study takes the Shiwuli Ri...

In this work, we explore the optimization of 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) measurement protocols for a 3D borehole grid configuration. Currently, there is no widely accepted standard measurement scheme for such setups. The use of numerou...

Accurate modeling of pollutant transport during storm events is critical for watershed management and pollution mitigation. This study extends Diskin’s Cell Model, originally developed for rainfall–runoff simulations, to incorporate pollu...

Soil erosion poses a significant threat to natural resources and agricultural productivity in arid regions. This study applied the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model to simulate rainfall erosivity and soil erosion risk in the Wadi All...

Algal blooms pose significant risks to public health and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the need for real-time water quality monitoring. Traditional manual methods are often limited by delays in data collection, which can hinder timely response and...

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Water plays a critical role in ensuring sustainable food security, particularly in the face of increasing freshwater scarcity and climate variability. This study examines virtual water use and virtual water trade in Ghana’s vegetable production...

Groundwater is a critical resource in semi-arid regions like Morocco’s Guire Basin, yet pollution and overexploitation threaten its sustainability. This study evaluates the groundwater quality of the Guire aquifer (Eastern High Atlas) using an...

Arsenic contamination in aquifers poses a significant global health risk due to its toxicity and widespread presence in groundwater used for drinking. Although several approaches for arsenic removal exist, many are either expensive or logistically di...

Olyokma Nature Reserve, where we conducted our research, is in Eastern Siberia in the middle taiga zone in an area characterized by continuous permafrost. This is the only protected area in the region with a complete reserve regime, where there is no...

Water quality and the culture performance of juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were evaluated between 2014 and 2017 in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in the Chilean Altiplano. Key parameters such as temperature, total ammonia nit...

This study focuses on step deformation landslides, conducting spatiotemporal analysis of landslide deformation and instability trends. First, the target landslide area is selected, and geological and precipitation data, along with historical displace...

This study investigates sediment transport processes in the Kelani River Basin, Sri Lanka, focusing on the formation of bed material sediment size distributions. Sediment transport processes during the flood events in 2016 and 2018 are evaluated usin...

Intensive farming in urban suburbs often causes habitat loss, soil erosion, wastewater discharge, and agricultural productivity decline, threatening long-term benefits for the local community. We developed a nature-based solution for sustainable land...

In this paper, improved reinforcement learning (IRL) is designed for the multi-objective optimization operation of a cascade reservoir system. The primary improvement of IRL is searching within limited solution space, based on the derived monotonic p...

Baseflow, the portion of streamflow sustained by groundwater discharge, is crucial for maintaining river ecosystems. Irrigation practices could influence baseflow, with varying impacts depending on the irrigation practices. This study evaluates the i...

The combination of electrocoagulation (EC) with complementary treatment methods has garnered increasing attention for wastewater remediation. This study aims to design and optimize a hybrid electrocoagulation–adsorption (EC/Ads) process for the...

Carbonate geothermal reservoirs, characterized by widespread distribution, a high discharge capacity, and favorable reinjection conditions, have become a key target for geothermal resource development. However, the karst geothermal reservoir system i...

The present study deals with the fabrication of activated carbon from longan peels (LPAC) using a phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄) activation method and an evaluation of LPAC’s capability for the adsorption of Reactive Black 5 (RB5) dye from aqueous sol...

The non-Darcy seepage characteristics of broken rock mass is important for analyzing the seepage and stability of rock and soil mass. At present, the research on non-Darcy seepage models considering hydraulic conditions and medium void structures has...

The research focuses on probabilistic modeling of maximum rainfall in Zielona Góra, Poland, to improve urban drainage system design. The study utilizes archived pluviographic data from 1951 to 2020, collected at the IMWM-NRI meteorological sta...

Constructions located in rivers play a critical role in mitigating flood risks and supporting sustainable economic development. However, the specific impacts of bridge construction on local flood dynamics have not been thoroughly examined. This study...

We have used a rapid, portable assay (Bacterisk) to determine the bacterial water quality along several inland waters in SW England. Water samples were compared by a conventional membrane filter and culture methods for faecal indicator bacteria (FIB;...

Based on the long-term daily historical rainfall data, this study analyzes the seasonal differences in extreme rainfall in the monsoon region with frequent extreme rainfall in China over the past 40 years. From the detailed analysis of extreme rainfa...

The wear of the flow passage components of the turbine due to sediment in sandy rivers is an inevitable challenge for hydroelectric units, often requiring frequent maintenance of hydraulic turbines. Consequently, the anti-wear protection technologies...

As lithium demand increases, lithium brine from hyper-arid salt flats is becoming increasingly important, although there are concerns about its extraction’s impact on the local water balance. Water footprinting could address these impacts, yet...

With the ongoing changes in the global climate system and the continuous intensification of human activities, aquatic ecosystems face unprecedented stresses from multiple sources [...]