Emerging Collaborative Inter-Continental Research in Water Resources

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".

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Interests: river basins; eutrophication; water quality modelling; ecosystem metabolism; nutrients; riparian environments; water resources managament

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Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: watershed modeling; ecohydrology; hydro-biogeochemical processes; climate and landuse change; water resources

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

There is a rapidly growing need for evidence of the efficacy of water management interventions to safeguard the status of water resources at both a local and basinscale. The Special Issue has an emphasis on developing tools to predict impacts of interventions both in terms of hydrology and water quality and more widely use other environmental and social indicators. The hydrology, chemistry, and biology of urban and agricultural systems are covered, as are in-river processes. For this Special Issue, the focus is on bringing together research across continents involving developing nations; it will also foster emerging and upcoming research being driven by early career researchers. The first authors within 10 years of the award of their PhD (or latest academic qualification) are eligible. 

Dr. Michael Hutchins
Prof. Dr. Dawen Yang
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Keywords

  • water quality
  • flooding
  • droughts
  • water resources management
  • ecosystem services
  • good agricultural practice
  • sustainable urbanization
  • nature based solutions
  • climate change
  • modelling

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A Combination Model for Quantifying Non-Point Source Pollution Based on Land Use Type in a Typical Urbanized Area
by Siru Wang, Pinzeng Rao, Dawen Yang and Lihua Tang
Water 2020, 12(3), 729; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030729 - 6 Mar 2020
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Abstract
Water pollution poses threats to urban environments and subsequently impacts the ecological health and sustainable development of urban areas. Identifying the spatiotemporal variation in non-point sources (NPS) pollution is a prerequisite for improving water quality. This paper aimed to assess the NPS pollution [...] Read more.
Water pollution poses threats to urban environments and subsequently impacts the ecological health and sustainable development of urban areas. Identifying the spatiotemporal variation in non-point sources (NPS) pollution is a prerequisite for improving water quality. This paper aimed to assess the NPS pollution load and then recognized the spatiotemporal characteristics of the pollution sources in a typical urbanized area. A combination model based on land use type was used to simulate the NPS pollution load. The results showed the following: (1) ponds and farmlands had higher pollution production intensities than other land use types, but the intensity and magnitude of pollution emissions were generally greater in urban areas; (2) monthly and annual total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) emissions had the same pattern as rainfall, and TN and TP emissions accounted for 56.2% and 58.0%, respectively, of the total in summer; (3) TN pollution was more serious than TP pollution in the study area, especially in farmlands; (4) urban runoff (UR) and livestock and poultry breeding (LPB) were the main sources of NPS, TN and TP emissions in the study area. If these NPS pollutants cannot be removed from this area, a large amount of freshwater is needed to dilute the current rivers to meet the requirement of the fourth category of China national environmental quality standards for surface water. This problem is serious in the control of polluted rivers in many cities throughout China. Full article
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