Assessment of Tropical Stream Water Quality and Sediment Transport

Dear Colleagues,

Approximately 40% of the Earth’s surface lays within the tropical zone and in many parts, there is a distinct wet season with isolated convection storms, monsoonal rains and cyclones, and a dry season characterized by no rain at all during a period of five to six months. Many tropical streams are ephemeral caused by the dry season’s lack of rain, but when they flow they can be raging torrents carrying large sediment loads and high concentrations of contaminants washed from the land surface. In tropical areas, water use applications, the population’s environmental awareness or interest, and water quality assessment methods are diverse and numerous. The theory that tropical zones are enlarging increases the significance of the subject chosen for this Special Issue. As subtropical zones become more arid through loss of water to tropical zones the importance of maintaining good water quality and reducing unnatural sediment transport arising from anthropogenic influence becomes magnified. This Special Issue provides the opportunity for researchers from a wide variety of areas to present their work in a common forum. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, mining, commercial and subsistence agriculture, urban water management and landscape mass failure, innovative methods for assessing water quality and sediment transport, and detection of catchment change through tropical stream assessment.

Prof. Ken Evans
Guest Editor

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• Water quality
• Ephemeral stream
• tropical
• sediment transport