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Water, Volume 13, Issue 4

2021 February-2 - 188 articles

Cover Story: Nutrient enrichment in estuarine and coastal waters triggers a progression of eutrophic responses including a significant increase of Chlorophyll a concentration and macroalgal blooms. However, due to lack of comprehensive spatiotemporal in situ data acquisitions, it is difficult to both extrapolate and assess the impact of these biological responses at large spatial scales using remote sensing techniques. We combined a continuous in situ Chl-a fluorometry sensor and Landsat 8/OLI satellite data to develop an algorithm and map Chl-a to assess the impact of freshwater diversions and associated high nutrient loading rates in the Barataria Basin, Louisiana USA. This methodology is efficient and cost-effective at linking biogeochemical responses in deltaic areas to remote sensing data. View this paper
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Articles (188)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,270 Views
32 Pages

Groundwater Monitoring Systems to Understand Sea Water Intrusion Dynamics in the Mediterranean: The Neretva Valley and the Southern Venice Coastal Aquifers Case Studies

  • Ivan Lovrinović,
  • Alessandro Bergamasco,
  • Veljko Srzić,
  • Chiara Cavallina,
  • Danko Holjević,
  • Sandra Donnici,
  • Joško Erceg,
  • Luca Zaggia and
  • Luigi Tosi

23 February 2021

Sea water intrusion (SWI) has been widely recognized as a global problem, significantly influencing coastal aquifers, mostly through reduced water quality and agricultural production indicators. In this paper, we present the outcomes of the implement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,851 Views
15 Pages

Late Holocene Peatland Evolution in Terelj and Tuul Rivers Drainage Basins in the Khentii Mountain Range of Northeastern Mongolia

  • Alexander Orkhonselenge,
  • Munkhjargal Uuganzaya,
  • Tuyagerel Davaagatan and
  • Ganbaatar Enkhbayar

23 February 2021

This study reviews the late Holocene peatlands in Terelj River and Tuul River drainage basins in the Khentii (Khentii has been misspelled as Khentey (or Hentey) and Khentei (or Hentei) in many publications. The Khentii is the right English translatio...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,699 Views
20 Pages

Phosphorous Supply to a Eutrophic Artificial Lake: Sedimentary versus Groundwater Sources

  • Wiebe Förster,
  • Jan C. Scholten,
  • Michael Schubert,
  • Kay Knoeller,
  • Nikolaus Classen,
  • Michael Lechelt,
  • Jan-Helge Richard,
  • Udo Rohweder,
  • Isabell Zunker and
  • Susanne C. Wanner

23 February 2021

The eutrophic Lake Eichbaumsee, a ~1 km long and 280 m wide (maximum water depth 16 m) dredging lake southeast of Hamburg (Germany), has been treated for water quality improvements using various techniques (i.e., aeration plants, removal of dissolved...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,075 Views
19 Pages

23 February 2021

Documenting how ground- and surface water systems respond to climate change is crucial to understanding water resources, particularly in the U.S. Great Lakes region, where drastic temperature and precipitation changes are observed. This study present...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,919 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2021

Climate change and tectonic uplift are the dominant forcing mechanisms responsible for the formation of long and narrow terraced landforms in a variety of geomorphic settings; and marine terraces are largely used to reconstruct the Quaternary glacial...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,579 Views
13 Pages

Research about Organic Matter Removal and Biofilms Development of Pilot-Scale UV/H2O2-BAC Process

  • Wuchang Song,
  • Congcong Li,
  • Zhenqi Du,
  • Jiangang Yue,
  • Wenjun Sun,
  • Lian Hou,
  • Jianguang Liu and
  • Ruibao Jia

23 February 2021

As a green advanced process for drinking water treatment, the UV/hydrogen peroxide (UV/H2O2) process has been gradually applied in China. To study the effect and mechanism of organic matter removal and the development of microbial communities in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,721 Views
21 Pages

23 February 2021

The present study examines the optimal water supply portfolio under the impact of climate change constructed by the authors previously. It incorporates feasibility planning for water supply projects, assesses a feasible water supply portfolio for cen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,400 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2021

Nutrient enrichment of surface waters degrades water quality. Municipalities need effective and economical solutions to remove nutrients from surface waters. From July 2016 to May 2020, full-scale (900 m2, 5% cover) floating treatment wetlands (FTWs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,405 Views
25 Pages

23 February 2021

This paper describes a new heat transfer parameterisation between wastewater and in-sewer air based on understanding the physical phenomena observed in free surface wastewater and in-sewer air. Long-term wastewater and in-sewer air temperature data w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,451 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2021

The fundamental importance of groundwater for urban drinking water supplies in sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly recognised. However, little is known about the trends in urban groundwater development by individual households and its role in securing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,154 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2021

Long-term outage of drinking water supply after earthquakes has large adverse impacts on the lives of residents and cities’ water supply systems. Priority assessment is required to determine the effective order of preparing the measures against these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,657 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2021

In highly water-poor areas, rooftop rainwater harvesting (RRWH) can be used for a self-sustaining and self-reliant domestic water supply. The designing of an optimal RRWH storage tank is a key parameter to implement a reliable RRWH system. In this st...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
25,946 Views
20 Pages

Scientific Methods to Understand Fish Population Dynamics and Support Sustainable Fisheries Management

  • Shewit Gebremedhin,
  • Stijn Bruneel,
  • Abebe Getahun,
  • Wassie Anteneh and
  • Peter Goethals

23 February 2021

Fisheries play a significant role in the livelihoods of the world population, while the dependence on fisheries is acute in developing countries. Fisheries are consequently a critical element for meeting the sustainable development (SDG) and FAO goal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,135 Views
16 Pages

23 February 2021

Recent advances in deep learning, especially the long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, provide some useful insights on how to tackle time series prediction problems, not to mention the development of a time series model itself for prediction. Runof...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,657 Views
15 Pages

Understanding Public Acceptance of a Multifunctional Water Plaza: A Case Study

  • Leon Netzel,
  • Emily Drewing,
  • Louis Netzel and
  • Martin Denecke

23 February 2021

Climate change enhances pluvial flood risk in many cities all over the world, especially in densely populated urban areas with high impervious surfaces that need to adapt to heavy precipitation. For this purpose, multifunctional stormwater infrastruc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,165 Views
23 Pages

23 February 2021

The tight coupling of the social-ecological system (SES) of the Mississippi Delta calls for balanced natural hazard vulnerability and risk assessments. Most existing assessments have approached these components in isolation. To address this, we apply...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,897 Views
16 Pages

Possible Sources of Salinity in the Upper Dibdibba Aquifer, Basrah, Iraq

  • Ahmed Abdulameer,
  • Jassim Mohammed Thabit,
  • Wael Kanoua,
  • Oliver Wiche and
  • Broder Merkel

23 February 2021

Salinity increase in groundwater was investigated in the area between Al-Zubair and Safwan, and close to the Khor Al-Zubair Channel of southern Iraq. Thirty-nine groundwater samples from the shallow aquifer and one sample from the Khor Al-Zubair Chan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,892 Views
23 Pages

Reliable Evapotranspiration Predictions with a Probabilistic Machine Learning Framework

  • Hakan Başağaoğlu,
  • Debaditya Chakraborty and
  • James Winterle

22 February 2021

Evapotranspiration is often expressed in terms of reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo), actual evapotranspiration (ETa), or surface water evaporation (Esw), and their reliable predictions are critical for groundwater, irrigation, and aquatic ecosy...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,763 Views
20 Pages

A Forecast-Skill-Based Dynamic Pre-Storm Level Control for Reservoir Flood-Control Operation

  • Wenhua Wan,
  • Xiaohui Lei,
  • Jianshi Zhao,
  • Mingna Wang,
  • Soon-Thiam Khu and
  • Chao Wang

22 February 2021

The design and operation of reservoirs based on conventional flood-limited water levels (FLWL) implicitly adopts the assumption of hydrological stationarity. As such, historical-record-based FLWL may not be the best choice for flood-control operation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,393 Views
23 Pages

22 February 2021

Chiang Mai basin has an escalating population growth resulting in high demand for water consumption. Lack of surface water supply in most parts of the basin gives rise to the increasing use of groundwater which leads to a continuous decline in ground...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,441 Views
18 Pages

Estimation of Soil Salt and Ion Contents Based on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Baidunzi Basin, China

  • Libing Wang,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Qian Shen,
  • Yue Yao,
  • Shengyin Zhang,
  • Huaidong Wei,
  • Rongpeng Yao and
  • Yaowen Zhang

22 February 2021

Soil salinity due to irrigation diversion affects regional agriculture, and the development of soil composition estimation models for the dynamic monitoring of regional salinity is important for salinity control. In this study, we evaluated the perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,413 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2021

The stream flow generation method is necessary for predicting yearly bed change at an ungauged stream in Monsoon region where there is no hydrologic and hydraulic information. This study developed the stream flow generation method of daily mean flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,164 Views
16 Pages

Removal of Tetracycline Oxidation Products in the Nanofiltration Process

  • Renata Żyłła,
  • Stanisław Ledakowicz,
  • Tomasz Boruta,
  • Magdalena Olak-Kucharczyk,
  • Magdalena Foszpańczyk,
  • Zdzisława Mrozińska and
  • Jacek Balcerzak

22 February 2021

The possibility of removing tetracycline (TRC) from water in an integrated advanced oxidation and membrane filtration process was investigated. Ozonation and UV/H2O2 photooxidation were applied for the destruction of TRC. Six oxidation products (OPs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,590 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2021

Typhoon is one of the most frequent meteorological phenomena that covers most of central-eastern China during the summer. Typhoon-induced precipitation is one of the most important water resources, but it often leads to severe flood disasters. Accura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,950 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2021

Untreated hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) was discharged into the Tone River in the central area of Japan, and the risk management plan in the watershed area has been strengthened because HMT is the precursor of formaldehyde (FA) regulated by Japanese w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,824 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of Adsorption Mechanism of Chromium(VI) Ion Using Ni-Al Type and Ni-Al-Zr Type Hydroxides

  • Fumihiko Ogata,
  • Noriaki Nagai,
  • Ayako Tabuchi,
  • Megumu Toda,
  • Masashi Otani,
  • Chalermpong Saenjum,
  • Takehiro Nakamura and
  • Naohito Kawasaki

21 February 2021

To evaluate the feasibility of nickel–aluminum (the Ni2+:Al3+ molar ratios of 1.0:1.0 and 1.0:2.0 are denoted as NA11 and NA12, respectively) and nickel–aluminum–zirconium type (the Ni2+:Al3+:Zr4+ molar ratios of 0.9:1.0:0.09 and 0.9:2.0:0.09 are den...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,666 Views
15 Pages

Inherent Safety Analysis and Sustainability Evaluation of Chitosan Production from Shrimp Exoskeleton in Colombia

  • Antonio Zuorro,
  • Kariana Andrea Moreno-Sader and
  • Ángel Darío González-Delgado

21 February 2021

Waste valorization strategies are key to achieve more sustainable production within the shrimp industry. The crustacean exoskeletons can be potentially used to obtain value-added products such as chitosan. A comprehensive analysis including both safe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,079 Views
13 Pages

Nitrogen Loss in Vegetable Field under the Simulated Rainfall Experiments in Hebei, China

  • Baoguo Ma,
  • Ronghao Guan,
  • Liang Liu,
  • Zhixi Huang,
  • Shuanwang Qi,
  • Zengfu Xi,
  • Ying Zhao,
  • Shihao Song and
  • Hong Yang

21 February 2021

Agricultural non-point source pollution is one of the main factors contaminating the environment. However, the impact of rainfall on loss of non-point nitrogen is far from well understood. Based on the artificial rainfall simulation experiments to mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,587 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2021

Groundwater and artificial reservoirs are in a continuous dynamic interaction that can affect not only water quantity but the quality. In this paper, taking the DR (Doumen Reservoir) as an example, the level dynamic changes between the DRTS (Doumen R...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,737 Views
18 Pages

Resilience in Complex Catchment Systems

  • Lindsay Beevers,
  • Melissa Bedinger,
  • Kerri McClymont and
  • Annie Visser-Quinn

20 February 2021

In this paper, we explore how we can use catchment resilience as a unifying concept to manage and regulate catchments, using structured reviews to support our perspective. Catchments are complex systems with interrelated natural, social, and technica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,816 Views
14 Pages

Prospects in Cadmium-Contaminated Water Management Using Free-Living Cyanobacteria (Oscillatoria sp.)

  • Iván Carralero Bon,
  • Lucas M. Salvatierra,
  • Luciana D. Lario,
  • Jordi Morató and
  • Leonardo M. Pérez

20 February 2021

In this study, the removal of cadmium (Cd) by free-living Oscillatoria sp. was studied. Our results showed that maximal Cd removal efficiency (~60%) by the cyanobacterial culture was achieved within 12–24 h in the presence of 5.0 or 25.0 mg/L of Cd....

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
69 Citations
12,434 Views
23 Pages

Salt Marsh Hydrogeology: A Review

  • Julia Guimond and
  • Joseph Tamborski

20 February 2021

Groundwater–surface water exchange in salt marsh ecosystems mediates nearshore salt, nutrient, and carbon budgets with implications for biological productivity and global climate. Despite their importance, a synthesis of salt marsh groundwater studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,754 Views
23 Pages

20 February 2021

Coastal communities face heightened risk to coastal flooding and erosion hazards due to sea-level rise, changing storminess patterns, and evolving human development pressures. Incorporating uncertainty associated with both climate change and the rang...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
18,730 Views
23 Pages

International Perceptions of Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure: A Comparison across Four Cities

  • Emily C. O’Donnell,
  • Noelwah R. Netusil,
  • Faith K. S. Chan,
  • Nanco J. Dolman and
  • Simon N. Gosling

20 February 2021

Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) is recognised internationally as an approach for managing urban water challenges while enhancing society and the environment through the provision of multiple co-benefits. This research employed an online survey to inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,763 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2021

Conventional green roofs, although having numerous advantages, could place water resources under pressure in dry periods due to irrigation requirements. Moreover, the thermal efficiency of green roofs could decrease without irrigation, and the plants...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
6,886 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Combined Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Index (CTEI) over Large River Basin Based on Machine Learning Approaches

  • Ahmed Elbeltagi,
  • Nikul Kumari,
  • Jaydeo K. Dharpure,
  • Ali Mokhtar,
  • Karam Alsafadi,
  • Manish Kumar,
  • Behrouz Mehdinejadiani,
  • Hadi Ramezani Etedali,
  • Youssef Brouziyne and
  • Alban Kuriqi
  • + 1 author

20 February 2021

Drought is a fundamental physical feature of the climate pattern worldwide. Over the past few decades, a natural disaster has accelerated its occurrence, which has significantly impacted agricultural systems, economies, environments, water resources,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,757 Views
16 Pages

19 February 2021

Rivers provide a range of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) such as aesthetic values, sense of place and inspiration, which remain insufficiently studied due to challenges associated with the assessment of their subjective and intangible attributes....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,100 Views
17 Pages

Bridge Pier Scour under Ice Cover

  • Christopher Valela,
  • Dario A. B. Sirianni,
  • Ioan Nistor,
  • Colin D. Rennie and
  • Husham Almansour

19 February 2021

Bridge pier scour is a complex process, which is influenced by many parameters, including the presence of ice cover around piers. To better understand the influence of ice on bridge pier scour, an artificial ice cover, equipped with either a smooth o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,290 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Gully Land Consolidation on Phreatic Water Transformation in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region

  • Zihao Guo,
  • Jianen Gao,
  • Pengcheng Sun,
  • Shaohui Dou,
  • Juan Li,
  • Xianyong Lou,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Rafiq Ahmad and
  • Zhe Gao

19 February 2021

Gully Land Consolidation (GLC) is a proven method to create farmlands and increase crop yields in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region, China. However, GLC influences phreatic water transformation and might cause the farmlands water disasters, such as sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,470 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2021

Badlands are typical erosional landforms of the Apennines (Northern Italy) that form on Plio-Pleistocene clayey bedrock and rapidly evolve. The present study aimed at identification and assessment of the areal and temporal changes of badlands within...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,684 Views
17 Pages

Hydrochemical and Isotopic Characterization of the Waters of the Manglaralto River Basin (Ecuador) to Contribute to the Management of the Coastal Aquifer

  • Paúl Carrión-Mero,
  • F. Javier Montalván,
  • Fernando Morante-Carballo,
  • Javier Heredia,
  • F. Javier Elorza,
  • Joselyne Solórzano and
  • Héctor Aguilera

19 February 2021

Coastal aquifers are strategic and fundamental in the development of touristic areas. The coastal aquifer within the Manglaralto River Basin in Ecuador is essential, as it is the only source of water supply for a large part of the northern part of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,970 Views
12 Pages

18 February 2021

Surface water samples from the Maolan National Natural Reserved Park (MNNRP) were analyzed from Sept. 2013 to June 2014, for major ion concentrations (K+, Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl, SO42−, HCO3), δ13C-DIC and δ34S-SO42− to quantify the sources of solutes...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,124 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2021

Algal blooms have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration in response to nitrogen (N) cycling in freshwater ecosystems. We conducted a high-resolution sedimentary study of N transformation and its associated microbial activity in Lake Taihu t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,815 Views
26 Pages

18 February 2021

In semi-arid regions, groundwater resources play a crucial role in all economic, environmental, and social processes. However, the occurrence, movement, and recharge of these hidden and valuable resources vary from place to place. Therefore, better m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,667 Views
13 Pages

18 February 2021

Valle de Bravo reservoir supplies drinking water to 40% of Mexico City. Here we present data on the population growth and life-table demography of the cladoceran Daphnia pulex, cultured at temperatures of 20 °C and 25 °C and with different concentrat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,996 Views
17 Pages

Distribution of Groundwater Arsenic in Uruguay Using Hybrid Machine Learning and Expert System Approaches

  • Ruohan Wu,
  • Elena M. Alvareda,
  • David A. Polya,
  • Gonzalo Blanco and
  • Pablo Gamazo

18 February 2021

Groundwater arsenic in Uruguay is an important environmental hazard, hence, predicting its distribution is important to inform stakeholders. Furthermore, occurrences in Uruguay are known to variably show dependence on depth and geology, arguably refl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,972 Views
24 Pages

The Development of a Framework for the Integrated Assessment of SDG Trade-Offs in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve

  • Charlotte L. J. Marcinko,
  • Robert J. Nicholls,
  • Tim M. Daw,
  • Sugata Hazra,
  • Craig W. Hutton,
  • Chris T. Hill,
  • Derek Clarke,
  • Andy Harfoot,
  • Oindrila Basu and
  • Partho P. Mondal
  • + 3 authors

18 February 2021

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding targets are significantly interconnected, with many interactions, synergies, and trade-offs between individual goals across multiple temporal and spatial scales. This pap...

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