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Water, Volume 12, Issue 2

2020 February - 307 articles

Cover Story: Phosphorus (P) removal structures are an edge-of-field practice for removing dissolved P from flowing water that comes from soils built-up with excessive P concentrations (i.e. legacy soils). These landscape-scale filters contain P sorption materials (PSMs) that sorb P by various reactions. Already proven effective, current research is dedicated to increasing efficiency and decreasing cost of structures. Cover photo shows a 35 Mg slag subsurface P removal structure for treating agricultural tile drainage with flow from the bottom-up. The structure handled 12 L s-1 flow and removed 19 kg (55%) of the cumulative dissolved P load. View this paper.
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Articles (307)

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,748 Views
17 Pages

An Integrated Urban Flood Vulnerability Index for Sustainable Planning in Arid Zones of Developing Countries

  • Carlos Salazar-Briones,
  • José Mizael Ruiz-Gibert,
  • Marcelo A. Lomelí-Banda and
  • Alejandro Mungaray-Moctezuma

24 February 2020

Floods are among the most recurring and devastating natural hazards, impacting human lives and causing severe economic damage. Urbanization can increase the risk of flooding due to increased peak discharge and volume. Over arid urban areas of develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
9,690 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Wastewater Irrigation on Photosynthesis, Growth, and Anatomical Features of Two Wheat Cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.)

  • Shokoofeh Hajihashemi,
  • Sonia Mbarki,
  • Milan Skalicky,
  • Fariba Noedoost,
  • Marzieh Raeisi and
  • Marian Brestic

24 February 2020

The wastewater from the Razi petrochemical complex contains high levels of salts and heavy metals. In the present research, the effects of different wastewater dilution levels (0, 25%, 50%, and 100%) were studied on two wheat cultivars—Chamran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,338 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2020

Understanding the basaltic aquifer system and seawater intrusion on the volcanic island of Jeju, Korea, has received significant attention over the years, and various methodologies have been suggested in the contributions. Nevertheless, it is still d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,326 Views
14 Pages

24 February 2020

Over the years, several studies have been carried out to investigate how the statistics of annual discharge maxima vary with the size of basins, with diverse findings regarding the observed type of scaling (i.e., simple scaling vs. multiscaling), esp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,011 Views
18 Pages

24 February 2020

The influence of sea ice on the hydrodynamics, sediment resuspension, and suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in the coastal area of Qinhuangdao was systematically investigated using 45-day in situ measurements at two stations (with ice at station...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,267 Views
12 Pages

Marine Litter in Transitional Water Ecosystems: State of The Art Review Based on a Bibliometric Analysis

  • Monia Renzi,
  • Valentina H. Pauna,
  • Francesca Provenza,
  • Cristina Munari and
  • Michele Mistri

24 February 2020

Transitional water ecosystems (TWEs), despite their ecological and economic importance, are largely affected by human pressures that could be responsible for significant inputs of litter in the marine environment. Plastic input in coastal ponds, lago...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,326 Views
19 Pages

Ubiquitous Fractal Scaling and Filtering Behavior of Hydrologic Fluxes and Storages from A Mountain Headwater Catchment

  • Ravindra Dwivedi,
  • John F. Knowles,
  • Christopher Eastoe,
  • Rebecca Minor,
  • Nathan Abramson,
  • Bhaskar Mitra,
  • William E. Wright,
  • Jennifer McIntosh,
  • Thomas Meixner and
  • Jon Chorover
  • + 5 authors

24 February 2020

We used the weighted wavelet method to perform spectral analysis of observed long-term precipitation, streamflow, actual evapotranspiration, and soil water storage at a sub-humid mountain catchment near Tucson, Arizona, USA. Fractal scaling in precip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,388 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2020

With recent advances in calculation methods, the external factors that affect slope stability, such as water content fluctuations and self-configuration, can be more easily assessed. In this study, a three-dimensional finite element strength reductio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,637 Views
21 Pages

Importance of Precipitation on the Upper Ocean Salinity Response to Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014)

  • Fu Liu,
  • Han Zhang,
  • Jie Ming,
  • Jiayu Zheng,
  • Di Tian and
  • Dake Chen

24 February 2020

Using multiple-satellite datasets, in situ observations, and numerical simulations, the influence of typhoon-induced precipitation on the oceanic response to Typhoon Kalmaegi has been discussed. It is found that the convective system and precipitatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,887 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2020

Gully erosion may cause considerable soil losses and produce large volumes of sediment. The aim of this study was to perform a preliminary assessment on the presence of ephemeral gullies in Greece by sampling representative cultivated fields in 100 s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,454 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2020

The Nubian sandstone aquifer is the only water source for domestic use and irrigation in the Kharga oasis, Egypt. In this study, 46 pumping tests are analyzed to estimate the transmissivity of the aquifer and to derive a spatial distribution map by g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,106 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2020

The outburst flood of the Baige landslide dam caused tremendous damage to infrastructure, unfinished hydraulic buildings, roads, and bridges that were built or under construction along the Jinsha River. Can downstream hydraulic buildings, such as hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,535 Views
21 Pages

23 February 2020

In this paper, the problem of the interaction between a periodic linear wave and offshore aquatic vegetation is investigated. The aquatic vegetation field is considered as a flexible permeable system. A vegetation medium theory is proposed based on L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,806 Views
15 Pages

Changes in Planktivory and Herbivory Regimes in a Shallow South American Lake (Lake Blanca Chica, Argentina) Over the Last 250 Years

  • David Carrozzo,
  • Simona Musazzi,
  • Andrea Lami,
  • Francisco E. Córdoba and
  • María de los Ángeles González Sagrario

22 February 2020

Shallow lakes are vulnerable ecosystems impacted by human activities and climate change. The Cladocera occupy a central role in food webs and are an excellent paleoecological indicator of food web structure and trophic status. We conducted a paleolim...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,381 Views
14 Pages

The Effect of Soil Iron on the Estimation of Soil Water Content Using Dielectric Sensors

  • George Kargas,
  • Paraskevi Londra,
  • Marianthi Anastasatou and
  • Nick Moustakas

22 February 2020

Nowadays, the estimation of volumetric soil water content (θ) through apparent dielectric permittivity (εa) is the most widely used method. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the high iron content of two sandy loam soils on est...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,568 Views
13 Pages

22 February 2020

A dropping nitrification reactor was proposed as a low-cost and energy-saving option for the removal of NH4+-N from contaminated groundwater. The objectives of this study were to investigate NH4+-N removal performance and the nitrogen removal pathway...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,114 Views
18 Pages

22 February 2020

When colossal gravity-driven mass flows enter a body of water, they may generate waves which can have destructive consequences on coastal areas. A number of empirical equations in the form of power functions of several dimensionless groups have been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,323 Views
19 Pages

Transient-Flow Induced Compressed Air Energy Storage (TI-CAES) System towards New Energy Concept

  • Mohsen Besharat,
  • Avin Dadfar,
  • Maria Teresa Viseu,
  • Bruno Brunone and
  • Helena M. Ramos

22 February 2020

In recent years, interest has increased in new renewable energy solutions for climate change mitigation and increasing the efficiency and sustainability of water systems. Hydropower still has the biggest share due to its compatibility, reliability an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,502 Views
19 Pages

22 February 2020

Climate change has effects on hydrological change in multiple aspects, particularly in the headwaters of the Yellow River (HWYR), which is widely covered by climate-sensitive frozen ground. In this study, the annual runoff was partitioned into four r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
506 Citations
29,064 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2020

In this paper, the enhanced adsorption of methylene blue (MB) dye ion on the activated carbon (AC) modified by three surfactants in aqueous solution was researched. Anionic surfactants—sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and sodium dodecyl sulfonate (S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,845 Views
12 Pages

Wastewater Treatment by Novel Polyamide/Polyethylenimine Nanofibers with Immobilized Laccase

  • Milena Maryšková,
  • Markéta Schaabová,
  • Hana Tománková,
  • Vít Novotný and
  • Miroslava Rysová

21 February 2020

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are highly resistant organic compounds, commonly occurring in the aquatic environment, that can interfere with the endocrine system of animals and humans, causing serious chronic diseases. In recent decades, enzymes fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,282 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2020

Environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals have become a global environmental problem, and the distribution, transport, and fate of estrogens in soil and water environments closely relate to human and ecological health as well as to the remediation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,348 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2020

Numerical modelling increasingly generates massive, high-dimensional spatio-temporal datasets. Exploring such datasets relies on effective visualization. This study presents a generic workflow to (i) project high-dimensional spatio-temporal data on a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,474 Views
12 Pages

21 February 2020

An experimental apparatus driven by horizontal oscillating grids in a water tank is proposed for generating shear-free turbulence, which is measured using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The performances of the proposed apparatus are investigated t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,893 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2020

The blackwater stream of domestic wastewater contains energy and the majority of nutrients that can contribute to a circular economy. Hygienically safe and odor-free nutrient solution produced from anaerobically treated source-separated blackwater th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,439 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2020

Ecosystems have been stabilized by human interventions to optimize delivery of certain ecosystem services, while at the same time awareness has grown that these systems are inherently dynamic rather than steady state. Applied research fields have eme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,179 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2020

Karst regions are widely distributed in Southwest China and due to the complexity of their geologic structure, it is very challenging to collect data useful to provide a better understanding of surface, underground and fissure flows, needed to calibr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
7,836 Views
12 Pages

21 February 2020

Mineral processing wastewater contains large amounts of reagents which can lead to severe environmental problems, such as high chemical oxygen demand (COD). Inspired by the wastewater treatment in such industries as those of textiles, food, and petro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,946 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2020

River training and river restoration often imply modifying the patterns and dimensions of bars, channels, and pools. Research since the 1980s has greatly advanced and matured our knowledge on the formation and behavior of river bars, thanks to field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,337 Views
13 Pages

Flipped Learning Approach as Educational Innovation in Water Literacy

  • Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero,
  • José-María Romero-Rodríguez,
  • Jesús López-Belmonte and
  • Santiago Alonso-García

20 February 2020

Water literacy has become a fundamental aspect in today’s society, as its conservation, preservation and management is key to ensuring human survival. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the effectiveness of flipped learning methodology on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,376 Views
20 Pages

Improving the Accuracy of Hydrodynamic Model Predictions Using Lagrangian Calibration

  • Neda Mardani,
  • Kabir Suara,
  • Helen Fairweather,
  • Richard Brown,
  • Adrian McCallum and
  • Roy C. Sidle

20 February 2020

While significant studies have been conducted in Intermittently Closed and Open Lakes and Lagoons (ICOLLs), very few have employed Lagrangian drifters. With recent attention on the use of GPS-tracked Lagrangian drifters to study the hydrodynamics of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,201 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2020

In this study, we present a scenario to evaluate the backwater impacts on upstream of the Polavaram dam during floods. For this purpose, annual peak discharges across the different gauge stations in river stretch considered for flood frequency analys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,872 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2020

The aims of the study were to quantify nutrient loads from point and diffuse pollution sources in the Rio Mannu stream and to simulate mitigation measures for reducing nutrient loads delivered to the Santa Gilla wetland. The Soil and Water Assessment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,156 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2020

It is fundamentally challenging to quantify the uncertainty of data-driven flood forecasting. This study introduces a general framework for probabilistic flood forecasting conditional on point forecasts. We adopt an unscented Kalman filter (UKF) post...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,421 Views
24 Pages

20 February 2020

Hydrothermal dolomite paleokarst reservoir is a type of porous carbonate reservoir, which has a secondary porosity and can store a large amount of oil and gas underground. The reservoir is formed by magnesium-rich hydrothermal fluids during the karst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,560 Views
27 Pages

20 February 2020

Mixing calculations have been widely applied to identify sources of groundwater recharge, but these calculations have assumed that the concentrations of end-members are well known. However, the end-members of water remain unclear and are not easily a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,859 Views
19 Pages

Assessment of Seasonal Changes in Water Chemistry of the Ridracoli Water Reservoir (Italy): Implications for Water Management

  • Simone Toller,
  • Beatrice M. S. Giambastiani,
  • Nicolas Greggio,
  • Marco Antonellini,
  • Ivo Vasumini and
  • Enrico Dinelli

20 February 2020

The Ridracoli artificial basin is the main water reservoir of the Emilia-Romagna region (Northeast Italy). The reservoir was made by construction of a dam on the Bidente River in 1982. It is used as the main drinking water supply of the region and fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,229 Views
12 Pages

Beach-Foredune Sediment Budget Response to Sea Level Fluctuation. Curonian Spit, Lithuania

  • Darius Jarmalavičius,
  • Donatas Pupienis,
  • Gintautas Žilinskas,
  • Rasa Janušaitė and
  • Viktoras Karaliūnas

20 February 2020

Beach-foredune sediment exchange maintains a coastal system’s stability. Sea level fluctuation is one of the most important factors that modifies the beach and foredune sediment budget. This study aims to assess beach and foredune sand budget c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,281 Views
15 Pages

New Methods for Microbiological Monitoring at Riverbank Filtration Sites

  • Yasmin Adomat,
  • Gerit-Hartmut Orzechowski,
  • Marc Pelger,
  • Robert Haas,
  • Rico Bartak,
  • Zsuzsanna Ágnes Nagy-Kovács,
  • Joep Appels and
  • Thomas Grischek

20 February 2020

Water suppliers aim to achieve microbiological stability throughout their supply system by regular monitoring of water quality. Monitoring temporal biomass dynamics at high frequency is time consuming due to the labor-intensive nature and limitations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
6,498 Views
15 Pages

Predicting the Trend of Dissolved Oxygen Based on the kPCA-RNN Model

  • Yi-Fan Zhang,
  • Peter Fitch and
  • Peter J. Thorburn

20 February 2020

Water quality forecasting is increasingly significant for agricultural management and environmental protection. Enormous amounts of water quality data are collected by advanced sensors, which leads to an interest in using data-driven models for predi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,293 Views
15 Pages

The Susceptibility of Juvenile American Shad to Rapid Decompression and Fluid Shear Exposure Associated with Simulated Hydroturbine Passage

  • Brett D. Pflugrath,
  • Ryan A. Harnish,
  • Briana Rhode,
  • Kristin Engbrecht,
  • Bernardo Beirão,
  • Robert P. Mueller,
  • Erin L. McCann,
  • John R. Stephenson and
  • Alison H. Colotelo

20 February 2020

Throughout many areas of their native range, American shad (Alosa sapidissima) and other Alosine populations are in decline. Though several conditions have influenced these declines, hydropower facilities have had significant negative effects on Amer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,029 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2020

Chile has gone through more than four decades of neoliberalism, inaugurated by the civil–military dictatorship (1973–1990). One of the central aspects of the current model is the neoliberal exploitation of natural commons such as land, wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,204 Views
22 Pages

Scarcity Amidst Plenty: Lower Himalayan Cities Struggling for Water Security

  • Hemant Ojha,
  • Kaustuv Raj Neupane,
  • Chandra Lal Pandey,
  • Vishal Singh,
  • Roshan Bajracharya and
  • Ngamindra Dahal

19 February 2020

In recent years, growing water insecurity in the Himalayan region has attracted new scientific research and fresh attention on policy. In this paper, we synthesize field research evidence from a sample of five Himalayan cities—three in Nepal an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,936 Views
20 Pages

19 February 2020

The state of Arizona has created a unique water management tool in response to water scarcity and population growth. In 1994, Arizona’s state legislature authorized the creation of long-term storage credits (LTSCs) through aquifer recharge with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,566 Views
12 Pages

19 February 2020

In this study, the short-term effects of NaCl stress on the free amino acid content and composition of root exudates of Phragmites australis were evaluated. Nineteen amino acid types were detected in all samples. The results indicated that NaCl signi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
12,950 Views
29 Pages

Recent Advances in Real-Time Pluvial Flash Flood Forecasting

  • Andre D. L. Zanchetta and
  • Paulin Coulibaly

19 February 2020

Recent years have witnessed considerable developments in multiple fields with the potential to enhance our capability of forecasting pluvial flash floods, one of the most costly environmental hazards in terms of both property damage and loss of life....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,239 Views
21 Pages

19 February 2020

Yield and production functions of sunflower (Helianthus annuus) were evaluated under full and deficit irrigation practices with the presence of shallow saline groundwater in a semi-arid region in the Imperial Valley of southern California, USA. A gro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,773 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2020

Most of the water supplied in Brazil comes from water streams that may have higher values for apparent color than turbidity. Treatability trials were performed for color and turbidity removal to evaluate the advantages of coagulation during the charg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,522 Views
14 Pages

19 February 2020

Green infrastructure (GI) systems are often overdesigned. This may be a byproduct of static sizing (e.g., accounting for a design storm’s runoff volume but not exfiltration rates) or may be deliberate (e.g., buffering against performance loss through...

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