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Water, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2019 - 237 articles

Cover Story: Mediterranean karst springs are freshwater environments of great ecological value and strategic water resources providing habitat for high biodiversity and drinking water supply. They are exposed to several pressures because of the variable rainfall regime, climate change and increasing water use. Integrated multidisciplinary approaches are necessary for their sustainable use and proper management. We compared epilithic diatom flora from karst springs in islands and mainland of two geographic areas (Spain and Italy). Our results confirm the role of springs as multiple ecotones and refuges for rare species. The geographic insularity may be an important factor in maintaining diatom biodiversity. View this paper.
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Articles (237)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,513 Views
13 Pages

17 December 2019

Urban trees play an important role in the built environment, reducing the rainfall reaching the ground by rainfall interception. The amount of intercepted rainfall depends on the meteorological and vegetation characteristics. By applying the multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,868 Views
14 Pages

Solar Septic Tank: Next Generation Sequencing Reveals Effluent Microbial Community Composition as a Useful Index of System Performance

  • Stephanie Connelly,
  • Tatchai Pussayanavin,
  • Richard J. Randle-Boggis,
  • Araya Wicheansan,
  • Suparat Jampathong,
  • Ciara Keating,
  • Umer Z. Ijaz,
  • Willian T. Sloan and
  • Thammarat Koottatep

17 December 2019

Septic tanks are widely deployed for off-grid sewage management but are typified by poor treatment performance, discharge of polluting effluents and the requirement for frequent de-sludging. The Solar Septic Tank (SST) is a novel septic tank design t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,236 Views
25 Pages

17 December 2019

Due to changing precipitation patterns induced by climate change, urban planners are confronted with new challenges to effectively mitigate rainfall runoff. An important knowledge gap that needs to be addressed before tackling these challenges is how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,930 Views
26 Pages

Quantifying the Variability in Flow Competence and Streambed Mobility with Water Discharge in a Gravel-Bed Channel: River Esva, NW Spain

  • Daniel Vázquez-Tarrío,
  • Elena Fernández-Iglesias,
  • María Fernández García and
  • Jorge Marquínez

17 December 2019

Streambed mobility in gravel-bed rivers is largely controlled by the rate at which particles with different grain sizes are recruited from the riverbed into the bed load. In this paper, we present a study case in which we explored this question, base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,196 Views
15 Pages

17 December 2019

Sloshing behavior due to near-fault type and earthquake excitations of a fluid in a tank having a highly deformable elastic structure in the middle was investigated experimentally and numerically in this paper. In the numerical model, fluid was simul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,937 Views
23 Pages

Characterizing Consecutive Flooding Events after the 2017 Mt. Salto Wildfires (Southern Italy): Hazard and Emergency Management Implications

  • Giuseppe Esposito,
  • Antonio Parodi,
  • Martina Lagasio,
  • Rocco Masi,
  • Giovanni Nanni,
  • Filiberto Russo,
  • Stefano Alfano and
  • Gaetano Giannatiempo

17 December 2019

Every summer, wildfires affect thousands of steep watersheds in Italy, causing the partial or complete destruction of vegetation, and changes in soil hydraulic properties. Such effects alter the hydrologic response of watersheds, increasing post-fire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,411 Views
18 Pages

Socio-Economic Potential Impacts Due to Urban Pluvial Floods in Badalona (Spain) in a Context of Climate Change

  • Eduardo Martínez-Gomariz,
  • Luca Locatelli,
  • María Guerrero,
  • Beniamino Russo and
  • Montse Martínez

17 December 2019

Pluvial flooding in Badalona (Spain) occurs during high rainfall intensity events, which in the future could be more frequent according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In this context, the present study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,104 Views
19 Pages

16 December 2019

Changes in water levels in lakes play an important role in the development of their coastal zones and water trophy. The aim of this study was to assess the role of changes in hydrometeorological conditions in the development of littoral and riparian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,589 Views
13 Pages

Pattern of Water Use at the United Arab Emirates University

  • M. M. Yagoub,
  • Tareefa S. AlSumaiti,
  • Latifa Ebrahim,
  • Yaqein Ahmed and
  • Rauda Abdulla

16 December 2019

In this study, indoor water use at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) was assessed for three years (2016, 2017, and 2018). A geographic information system (GIS) was employed to determine where water use is high within the university, when and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,338 Views
28 Pages

Empirical and Physically Based Thresholds for the Occurrence of Shallow Landslides in a Prone Area of Northern Italian Apennines

  • Massimiliano Bordoni,
  • Beatrice Corradini,
  • Luca Lucchelli,
  • Roberto Valentino,
  • Marco Bittelli,
  • Valerio Vivaldi and
  • Claudia Meisina

16 December 2019

Rainfall thresholds define the conditions leading to the triggering of shallow landslides over wide areas. They can be empirical, which exploit past rainfall data and landslide inventories, or physicallybased, which integrate slope physical–hyd...

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