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Water, Volume 7, Issue 1

2015 January - 21 articles

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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,046 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2015

Downscaled climate scenarios can be used to inform management decisions on investment in infrastructure or alternative water sources within water supply systems. Appropriate models of the system components, such as catchments, rivers, lakes and reser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,057 Views
29 Pages

Stakeholder Views, Financing and Policy Implications for Reuse of Wastewater for Irrigation: A Case from Hyderabad, India

  • Markus Starkl,
  • Norbert Brunner,
  • Priyanie Amerasinghe,
  • Jampani Mahesh,
  • Dinesh Kumar,
  • Shyam R. Asolekar,
  • Sahebrao Sonkamble,
  • Shakeel Ahmed,
  • Mohammed Wajihuddin and
  • Sarah Sarah
  • + 1 author

19 January 2015

When flowing through Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana, India, the Musi River picks up (partially) treated and untreated sewage from the city. Downstream of the city, farmers use this water for the irrigation of rice and vegetables. Treatment of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
23,141 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2015

onstructed wetland applications have been limited by a large land requirement and capital investment. This study aimed to improve a shallow pond water hyacinth system by incorporating the advantages of engineered attached microbial growth technique (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,050 Views
12 Pages

Carbon Turnover during Effluent Application to the Land: A Potential Role for Vegetation?

  • Vasileios A. Tzanakakis,
  • Giannis Vagiakis,
  • Myrto Tsiknia,
  • Andreas N. Angelakis and
  • Nikolaos V. Paranychianakis

13 January 2015

This work investigates the effect of plant species (Eucalyptus camaldulensis vs. Arundo donax) on carbon (C) turnover during wastewater application to the land. The study was carried out in 40-liter pots under field conditions and plant species were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
16,334 Views
16 Pages

Comparing Methods of Calculating Expected Annual Damage in Urban Pluvial Flood Risk Assessments

  • Anders Skovgård Olsen,
  • Qianqian Zhou,
  • Jens Jørgen Linde and
  • Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen

12 January 2015

Estimating the expected annual damage (EAD) due to flooding in an urban area is of great interest for urban water managers and other stakeholders. It is a strong indicator for a given area showing how vulnerable it is to flood risk and how much can b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,916 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Streambed Conductance on Stream Depletion

  • Greg Lackey,
  • Roseanna M. Neupauer and
  • John Pitlick

12 January 2015

Stream depletion, which is the reduction in flow rate of a stream or river due to the extraction of groundwater in a hydraulically connected stream-aquifer system, is often estimated using numerical models. The accuracy of these models depends on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,253 Views
15 Pages

Seasonal Demand Dynamics of Residential Water End-Uses

  • Kumudu Rathnayaka,
  • Hector Malano,
  • Shiroma Maheepala,
  • Biju George,
  • Bandara Nawarathna,
  • Meenakshi Arora and
  • Peter Roberts

7 January 2015

Water demand prediction by end-use at an appropriate spatial and temporal resolution is essential for planning water supply systems that will supply water from a diversified set of sources on a fit-for-purpose basis. Understanding seasonal, daily and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
13,345 Views
31 Pages

Empirical Modeling of Spatial 3D Flow Characteristics Using a Remote-Controlled ADCP System: Monitoring a Spring Flood

  • Claude Flener,
  • Yunsheng Wang,
  • Leena Laamanen,
  • Elina Kasvi,
  • Jenni-Mari Vesakoski and
  • Petteri Alho

7 January 2015

The use of acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) for measuring streamflow and discharge is becoming increasingly widespread. The spatial distribution of flow patterns is useful data in studying riverine habitats and geomorphology. Until now, most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,577 Views
13 Pages

31 December 2014

Geosmin is a common, musty-smelling sesquiterpene, principally produced by cyanobacteria. Anabaena ucrainica (Schhorb.) Watanabe, a water bloom-forming cyanobacterium, is the geosmin producer responsible for odor problems in Dianchi and Erhai lakes i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,228 Views
14 Pages

31 December 2014

As the third largest freshwater lake in China, Taihu Lake has experienced severe cyanobacterial blooms and associated water quality degradation in recent decades, threatening the human health and sustainable development of cities in the watershed. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,512 Views
21 Pages

29 December 2014

The study of the impact of economic activities on natural resources through global supply chains is increasingly demanded in the context of the growing globalization of economies and product fragmentation. Taking Spain as a case study and a sector wi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
84 Citations
25,309 Views
22 Pages

An Overview of Hybrid Water Supply Systems in the Context of Urban Water Management: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Mukta Sapkota,
  • Meenakshi Arora,
  • Hector Malano,
  • Magnus Moglia,
  • Ashok Sharma,
  • Biju George and
  • Francis Pamminger

29 December 2014

This paper presents a critical review of the physical impacts of decentralized water supply systems on existing centralized water infrastructures. This paper highlights the combination of centralized and decentralized systems, which is referred to as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,181 Views
18 Pages

Long-Term Changes in the Water Quality and Macroinvertebrate Communities of a Subtropical River in South China

  • Kun Li,
  • Chunguang He,
  • Jie Zhuang,
  • Zhenxing Zhang,
  • Hongyong Xiang,
  • Zhongqiang Wang,
  • Haijun Yang and
  • Lianxi Sheng

24 December 2014

Subtropical rivers support a highly diverse array of benthic macroinvertebrates. In this study, by combining historical data and new data, we identified specific changes in the Guanlan River, in South China, from 1981 to 2011, and evaluated the effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,585 Views
18 Pages

Volumetric Concentration Maximum of Cohesive Sediment in Waters: A Numerical Study

  • Jisun Byun,
  • Minwoo Son,
  • Jeong-Seok Yang and
  • Tae-Hwa Jung

24 December 2014

Cohesive sediment has different characteristics compared to non-cohesive sediment. The density and size of a cohesive sediment aggregate (a so-called, floc) continuously changes through the flocculation process. The variation of floc size and density...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,313 Views
17 Pages

24 December 2014

River flow forecasting is critical for flood forecasting, reservoir operations, and water resources management. However, flow forecasting can be difficult, challenging and time consuming due to the spatial and temporal variability of climatic condit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
15,287 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Dust Deposition on Stomatal Conductance and Leaf Temperature of Cotton in Northwest China

  • Shamaila Zia-Khan,
  • Wolfram Spreer,
  • Yang Pengnian,
  • Xiaoning Zhao,
  • Hussein Othmanli,
  • Xiongkui He and
  • Joachim Müller

24 December 2014

The Xinjiang Region in Northwest China is known as the “dust center” of the Eurasian mainland. Dust on the leaf surface affects overall plant development. While emphasis was on studying the impacts of industrial dust particles on crop development, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,145 Views
11 Pages

23 December 2014

Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR) can integrate a great number of variables and overcome collinearity problems, a fact that makes it suitable for intensive agronomical practices such as land application. In the present study a PLSR model was de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,903 Views
26 Pages

23 December 2014

Agricultural irrigation leachate is often the largest source for aquifer recharge in semi-arid groundwater basins, but contamination from fertilizers and other agro-chemicals may degrade the quality of groundwater. Affected communities are frequently...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
15,410 Views
13 Pages

23 December 2014

Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) and forward osmosis (FO) are two emerging technologies with great potential for energy-efficient water/wastewater treatment. BES takes advantage of microbial interaction with a solid electron acceptor/donor to accompl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
17,688 Views
12 Pages

Nitrate Removal from Wastewater through Biological Denitrification with OGA 24 in a Batch Reactor

  • Federico Rossi,
  • Oriana Motta,
  • Simona Matrella,
  • Antonio Proto and
  • Giovanni Vigliotta

23 December 2014

Nitrates pollution of waters is a worldwide problem and its remediation is a big challenge from the technical and the scientific point of view. One of the most used and promising cleaning techniques is the biological treatment of wastewaters operat...

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