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Water, Volume 10, Issue 11

November 2018 - 212 articles

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Cover Story: We synthesize climate, hydrological, and human land- and water-use data with the aim to decipher key changes and their drivers for freshwater availability and flux balance in five nested catchments across Greece. Changes are assessed from an early (1930–1949) to a recent (1990–2009) period, with different climate (particularly less precipitation) and human influence (particularly more irrigated agriculture) conditions in the latter. We find that the precipitation change has driven decrease while the irrigation development has driven increase in evapotranspiration, leading to a net total increase of 26 ± 7 mm/year on average over Greece. For average runoff over Greece, draining to different parts of the Mediterranean Sea, both drivers have contributed more or less equally to a considerable total decrease of −75 ± 10 mm/year. View Paper here.

Articles (212)

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,333 Views
17 Pages

Infiltration and Inflow (I/I) to Wastewater Systems in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland

  • Kristin Jenssen Sola,
  • Jarle Tommy Bjerkholt,
  • Oddvar Georg Lindholm and
  • Harsha Ratnaweera

21 November 2018

Infiltration and inflow of non-sewer water to the wastewater network (I/I-water) may have a number of both financial and environmental consequences. In Norway, there are two commonly used methods for calculating the volume of I/I-water, The Dilution...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,798 Views
17 Pages

Introduction of an Experimental Terrestrial Forecasting/Monitoring System at Regional to Continental Scales Based on the Terrestrial Systems Modeling Platform (v1.1.0)

  • Stefan Kollet,
  • Fabian Gasper,
  • Slavko Brdar,
  • Klaus Goergen,
  • Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen,
  • Jessica Keune,
  • Wolfgang Kurtz,
  • Volker Küll,
  • Florian Pappenberger and
  • Stefan Poll
  • + 4 authors

21 November 2018

Operational weather and flood forecasting has been performed successfully for decades and is of great socioeconomic importance. Up to now, forecast products focus on atmospheric variables, such as precipitation, air temperature and, in hydrology, on...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,367 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2018

Rapid filling/emptying of pipes is commonly encountered in water supply and sewer systems, during which pressure transients may cause unexpected large pressure and/or geyser events. In the present study, a linearized analytical model is first develop...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,435 Views
21 Pages

Occlusion in Bottom Intakes with Circular Bars by Flow with Gravel-Sized Sediment. An Experimental Study

  • Juan T. Garcia,
  • Luis G. Castillo,
  • Patricia L. Haro and
  • Jose M. Carrillo

21 November 2018

Obstruction of the racks in bottom intakes due to sediment wedged in the slit of the bars can significantly reduce diverted flow. Notwithstanding the design recommendations that are found in the literature, the problem of rack occlusion continues to...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,866 Views
12 Pages

21 November 2018

Drinking water is scarce in Djibouti because of the hot desert climate. Moreover, seawater intrusion or fossil saltwater contamination of the limited number of freshwater aquifers due to groundwater overexploitation affect those who live close to the...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,616 Views
20 Pages

Barrier-based Longitudinal Connectivity Index for Managing Urban Rivers

  • Heying Li,
  • Demin Zhou,
  • Shanshan Hu,
  • Jianchen Zhang,
  • Yuemei Jiang and
  • Yue Zhang

21 November 2018

A large variety of barriers can affect longitudinal connectivity, which leads to shipping blocking and even flood hazard. However, few existing methods can quantify physically the river channel connectivity from the barrier’s details perspectiv...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,858 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2018

The climate change impacts on droughts have received widespread attention in many recent studies. However, previous studies mainly attribute the changes in future droughts to human-induced climate change, while the impacts of internal climate variabi...

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  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,238 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2018

As the largest freshwater lake in China, water environmental pollution in Poyang Lake is increasingly attracting attention. However, to date, the occurrence of seldom-monitored trace elements (SMTEs) (such as thallium (Tl) and cobalt (Co)) and their...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,291 Views
20 Pages

Capacity Building for Water Management in Peri-Urban Communities, Bangladesh: A Simulation-Gaming Approach

  • Sharlene L. Gomes,
  • Leon M. Hermans,
  • Kazi Faisal Islam,
  • Sheikh Nazmul Huda,
  • ATM Zakir Hossain and
  • Wil A. H. Thissen

21 November 2018

Peri-urban areas in the global south are experiencing over-exploitation and contamination of water resources as a result of rapid urbanisation. These problems relate to the ineffectiveness of the underlying institutions in this dynamic, multi-actor c...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,334 Views
16 Pages

Hydrological Simulation and Runoff Component Analysis over a Cold Mountainous River Basin in Southwest China

  • Weidong Xuan,
  • Qiang Fu,
  • Guanghua Qin,
  • Cong Zhu,
  • Suli Pan and
  • Yue-Ping Xu

21 November 2018

Assessment of water resources from mountainous catchments is crucial for the development of upstream rural areas and downstream urban communities. However, lack of data in these mountainous catchments prevents full understanding of the response of hy...

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