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Water, Volume 14, Issue 2

2022 January-2 - 139 articles

Cover Story: An impact compression test under water-saturated conditions was carried out on an SHPB test system using the half sine wave loading mode, in which the incident stress wavelength was proportional to the length of the rock specimen. The main purpose of these experiments was to explore the difference in mechanical properties between water-saturated granite and air-dried granite as well as the physical mechanism of these phenomena. The dynamic compressive strength of water-saturated granite was found to be higher than that of air-dried granite. The Bernoulli effect of fluid, the adhesion effect of free water, and the Stefan effect of fluid in water-saturated granite were revealed and found to be the essential reasons affecting the dynamic strength of water-saturated granite. View this paper
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Articles (139)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,484 Views
11 Pages

17 January 2022

Fungicides are frequently detected in the water bodies, however, the adverse effects of these fungicides on aquatic lives remain limited. To better understand the adverse effects of amisulbrom (AML) and isoflucypram (ISO) on embryogenesis, zebrafish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,037 Views
21 Pages

Simulating the Evolution of Da Anglong Glacier, Western Tibetan Plateau over the 21st Century

  • Wenqing Zhao,
  • Liyun Zhao,
  • Lide Tian,
  • Michael Wolovick and
  • John C. Moore

17 January 2022

We apply a three-dimensional (3D) full-Stokes model to simulate the evolution of Da Anglong Glacier, a large glacier in the western Tibetan Plateau from the year 2016 to 2098, using projected temperatures and precipitations from the 25-km-resolution...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,898 Views
11 Pages

Study of the Effect of Leucine on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation in a Circular Economy Perspective

  • Giuseppe Mazziotti di Celso,
  • Marina Prisciandaro,
  • Despina Karatza,
  • Dino Musmarra and
  • Amedeo Lancia

17 January 2022

This paper studies the crystallization of calcium carbonate in the presence of leucine—a green additive. The effect of leucine on calcium carbonate precipitation kinetic is particularly interesting since CaCO3 is a valuable product worthy to be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,329 Views
13 Pages

17 January 2022

In situ remediation of sediment pollution is an important measure for the treatment of urban black-odorous water. In this study, the process of calcium nitrate dosing and low oxygen aeration was used to repair the sediment of black-odorous water body...

  • Reply
  • Open Access
2,246 Views
4 Pages

17 January 2022

This is the reply to the comments by AlQasimi and Mahdi (2022) on the classification attributed to the Lake Ha! Ha! real-field test case by Aureli et al. (2021) in their review of historical dam-break events useful for the validation of dam-break num...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,427 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2022

Water shortage is one of the most crucial challenges worldwide, especially in the Middle Eastern countries, with high population and low freshwater resources. Considering this point and the increasing popularity of solar stills desalination systems,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,760 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2022

The surface water ecosystem has important ecological value and plays an important supporting and guarantee role in the sustainable development of human society. In this study, an inexact two-stage stochastic programming (ITSP) model was developed for...

  • Comment
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,055 Views
3 Pages

17 January 2022

This discussion points out that the available data of the Lake Ha! Ha! Dam failure, classified as useful for models’ validation purposes by Aureli et al. (2021), present serious shortcomings that should move the Lake Ha! Ha! Dam from Aureli et al.’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,015 Views
20 Pages

Scaling Up from Leaf to Whole-Plant Level for Water Use Efficiency Estimates Based on Stomatal and Mesophyll Behaviour in Platycladus orientalis

  • Yonge Zhang,
  • Bing Liu,
  • Guodong Jia,
  • Xinxiao Yu,
  • Xiaoming Zhang,
  • Xiaolin Yin,
  • Yang Zhao,
  • Zhaoyan Wang,
  • Chen Cheng and
  • Yan Xin
  • + 1 author

17 January 2022

Prediction of whole-plant short-term water use efficiency (WUEs,P) is essential to indicate plant performance and facilitate comparison across different temporal and spatial scales. In this study, an isotope model was scaled up from the leaf to the w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,012 Views
21 Pages

17 January 2022

In many places around the globe, groundwater has been threatened by various pressures, which calls for better management strategies for groundwater sustainability. In this study, we suggest a novel framework for identifying factors critical to coasta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,583 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2022

A novel cobalt ion-imprinted polymer (Co(II)-MIIP) based on magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles was prepared by using Co(II) as the template ion, and bis(2-methacryloxyethyl) phosphate and glycylglycine as dual functional monomers. The fabricated material w...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,520 Views
15 Pages

The Suitability of Hybrid Fe0/Aggregate Filtration Systems for Water Treatment

  • Ran Tao,
  • Huichen Yang,
  • Xuesong Cui,
  • Minhui Xiao,
  • Nadège Gatcha-Bandjun,
  • Joseline Flore Kenmogne-Tchidjo,
  • Mesia Lufingo,
  • Bernard Konadu Amoah,
  • Raoul Tepong-Tsindé and
  • Chicgoua Noubactep
  • + 7 authors

17 January 2022

Metallic iron (Fe0) corrosion under immersed conditions (Fe0/H2O system) has been used for water treatment for the past 170 years. Fe0 generates solid iron corrosion products (FeCPs) which are known to in situ coat the surface of aggregates, includin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,381 Views
22 Pages

Attribution of Changes in Streamflow to Climate Change and Land Cover Change in Yangtze River Source Region, China

  • Naveed Ahmed,
  • Genxu Wang,
  • Haishen Lü,
  • Martijn J. Booij,
  • Hero Marhaento,
  • Foyez Ahmed Prodhan,
  • Shahid Ali and
  • Muhammad Ali Imran

17 January 2022

The quantitative attribution of changes in streamflow to climate change (CC) and land cover change (LCC) for the Yangtze River Source Region (YRSR), China, was assessed. We used a combination of the SWAT model along with the statistical technique one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,776 Views
16 Pages

Flow Intermittency Affects Leaf Decomposition and Benthic Consumer Communities of Alpine Streams: A Case Study along the Po River

  • Laura Gruppuso,
  • Alberto Doretto,
  • Elisa Falasco,
  • Stefano Fenoglio,
  • Michele Freppaz,
  • Mark Eric Benbow and
  • Francesca Bona

16 January 2022

Streams and rivers are becoming increasingly intermittent in Alpine regions due to the global climate change and related increases of local water abstractions, making it fundamental to investigate the occurrence of supraseasonal drying events and the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,800 Views
23 Pages

16 January 2022

This study examined the Chabagou River watershed in the gully region of the Loess Plateau in China’s Shaanxi Province, and was based on measured precipitation and runoff data in the basin over a 52-year period (1959–2010), land-use types,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,350 Views
29 Pages

16 January 2022

In this paper, a review of a semi-empirical modelling approach for cohesive sediment transport in river systems is presented. The mathematical modelling of cohesive sediment transport is a challenge because of the number of governing parameters contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,712 Views
16 Pages

16 January 2022

This paper analyzes the groundwater in the deep Quaternary aquifer of Eastern Croatia. These waters are collected at the Vinogradi Pumping Station (Osijek, Croatia) for the needs of public water supply. This research aimed to assess the impact of cli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,229 Views
16 Pages

Groundwater Nitrate Pollution Sources Assessment for Contaminated Wellfield

  • Marko Šrajbek,
  • Lado Kranjčević,
  • Ivan Kovač and
  • Ranko Biondić

16 January 2022

Nitrates are one of the most common groundwater contaminants and they come from different sources. The paper presents a study of groundwater quality at Varaždin wellfield in the north part of Croatia. The nitrate concentration at this location h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,192 Views
11 Pages

Isotopic Composition of Glacier Ice and Meltwater in the Arid Parts of the Altai Mountains (Central Asia)

  • Dmitriy Bantcev,
  • Dmitriy Ganyushkin,
  • Anton Terekhov,
  • Alexey Ekaykin,
  • Igor Tokarev and
  • Kirill Chistyakov

16 January 2022

The objective of this study is to reveal the isotopic composition of ice and meltwater in glaciated regions of South-Eastern Altai. The paper depicts differences between the isotopic composition of glacier ice from several types of glaciers and from...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,783 Views
23 Pages

16 January 2022

In this study, we apply a bibliometric analysis to characterize publication data on droughts, mainly focusing on drought indices (DIs), drought risk (DR), and drought forecast (DF). Data on publications on these selected topics were obtained through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,493 Views
20 Pages

Responses of Bacterial Taxonomical Diversity Indicators to Pollutant Loadings in Experimental Wetland Microcosms

  • Subhomita Ghosh Roy,
  • Charles F. Wimpee,
  • S. Andrew McGuire and
  • Timothy J. Ehlinger

16 January 2022

Urbanization results in higher stormwater loadings of pollutants such as metals and nutrients into surface waters. This directly impacts organisms in aquatic ecosystems, including microbes. Sediment microbes are known for pollution reduction in the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,350 Views
13 Pages

A Simulation Analysis of a Microalgal-Production Plant for the Transformation of Inland-Fisheries Wastewater in Sustainable Feed

  • Janet B. García-Martínez,
  • Jefferson E. Contreras-Ropero,
  • Néstor A. Urbina-Suarez,
  • Germán L. López-Barrera,
  • Andrés F. Barajas-Solano,
  • Viatcheslav Kafarov,
  • Crisóstomo Barajas-Ferreira,
  • Diana M. Ibarra-Mojica and
  • Antonio Zuorro

16 January 2022

The present research evaluates the simulation of a system for transforming inland-fisheries wastewater into sustainable fish feed using Designer® software. The data required were obtained from the experimental cultivation of Chlorella sp. in wast...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,165 Views
12 Pages

15 January 2022

Soil water content (SWC) is one of the most important hydrologic variables; it plays a decisive role in the control of various land surface processes. We simulated SWC using a Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model in southern Saskatchewan. SWC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,982 Views
12 Pages

15 January 2022

Many methods for evaluating the aquifer’s vulnerability to pollution have been developed in the past four decades by using geographic information system (GIS) tools. However, even if the aquifer vulnerability concept is well defined and the met...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,479 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2022

The metal bioavailability concept is implemented in the Water Framework Directive (WFD) compliance assessment. The bioavailability assessment is usually performed by the application of user-friendly Biotic Ligand Models (BLMs), which require dissolve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,132 Views
17 Pages

15 January 2022

Research analyzing perceptions of water services has focused on water quality, water safety, and the propensity to consume water from different sources. It has not assessed perceptions of water costs. To address this knowledge gap, this study collect...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,736 Views
14 Pages

15 January 2022

Arsenic accumulation and biotransformation in algae was mostly carried out in a medium that contained far higher nutrient concentrations than that in natural freshwaters. The obtained results might have limited environmental validity and result in a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,899 Views
20 Pages

Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Mangrove Mapping Using Multi-Temporal and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Imagery

  • Arsalan Ghorbanian,
  • Seyed Ali Ahmadi,
  • Meisam Amani,
  • Ali Mohammadzadeh and
  • Sadegh Jamali

15 January 2022

Mangroves, as unique coastal wetlands with numerous benefits, are endangered mainly due to the coupled effects of anthropogenic activities and climate change. Therefore, acquiring reliable and up-to-date information about these ecosystems is vital fo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,656 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2022

The management and treatment of hospital wastewater are issues of great concern worldwide. Both in the case of a dedicated treatment or co-treatment with urban wastewater, hospital effluent is generally subjected to pre-treatments followed by a biolo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,277 Citations
161,754 Views
30 Pages

Review on Methylene Blue: Its Properties, Uses, Toxicity and Photodegradation

  • Idrees Khan,
  • Khalid Saeed,
  • Ivar Zekker,
  • Baoliang Zhang,
  • Abdulmajeed H. Hendi,
  • Ashfaq Ahmad,
  • Shujaat Ahmad,
  • Noor Zada,
  • Hanif Ahmad and
  • Ibrahim Khan
  • + 2 authors

14 January 2022

The unavailability of clean drinking water is one of the significant health issues in modern times. Industrial dyes are one of the dominant chemicals that make water unfit for drinking. Among these dyes, methylene blue (MB) is toxic, carcinogenic, an...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,996 Views
16 Pages

Sustainability Assessment for Wastewater Treatment Systems in Developing Countries

  • Markus Starkl,
  • Norbert Brunner,
  • Sukanya Das and
  • Anju Singh

14 January 2022

As the assessment of the economic, environmental, institutional, and social sustainability of wastewater treatment systems may have several conceivable goals and intended recipients, there are numerous different approaches. This paper surveys certain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,741 Views
14 Pages

The Effect of Trophic Modes on Biomass and Lipid Production of Five Microalgal Strains

  • Andonia Nicodemou,
  • Michalis Kallis,
  • Anastasia Agapiou,
  • Androulla Markidou and
  • Michalis Koutinas

14 January 2022

Five microalgae strains, namely Isochrysis galbana, Microchloropsis gaditana, Scenedesmus obliquus, Nannochloropsis oculata and Tetraselmis suecica, were selected as potential candidates for polyunsaturated fatty acids’ production, evaluating b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,181 Views
23 Pages

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the SED-BIO System in Reducing the Inflow of Selected Physical, Chemical and Biological Pollutants to a Lake

  • Jerzy M. Kupiec,
  • Agnieszka Bednarek,
  • Sebastian Szklarek,
  • Joanna Mankiewicz-Boczek,
  • Liliana Serwecińska and
  • Jolanta Dąbrowska

14 January 2022

The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of the innovative SED-BIO system in limiting the inflow of pollutants to Jelonek Lake. The analyses were conducted in the Gniezno Lake District in Greater Poland (the western part of Poland). Physica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,413 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2022

River water quality degradation is one of the hottest environmental issues worldwide. Therefore, monitoring water quality longitudinally and temporally is crucial for effective water management and contamination control. The main aim of this study wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,148 Views
16 Pages

Low-Impact Development (LID) in Coastal Watersheds: Infiltration Swale Pollutant Transfer in Transitional Tropical/Subtropical Climates

  • Aline Rech,
  • Elisa Pacheco,
  • Jakcemara Caprario,
  • Julio Cesar Rech and
  • Alexandra Rodrigues Finotti

14 January 2022

The control of runoff pollution is one of the advantages of low-impact development (LID) or sustainable drainage systems (SUDs), such as infiltration swales. Coastal areas may have characteristics that make the implementation of drainage systems diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,435 Views
17 Pages

The Effects of Particle Gradation on Salinized Soil in Arid and Cold Regions

  • Xuebang Huang,
  • Zizhao Zhang,
  • Ruihua Hao and
  • Zezhou Guo

14 January 2022

Particle size grading impacts salt-frost heaving and dissolution collapse events of salinized soil on northwestern China’s arid and cold region highways. However, the influencing mechanisms remain unclear and the impact of varying particle size...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,194 Views
17 Pages

Contribution of Small Phytoplankton to Primary Production in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas

  • Jung-Woo Park,
  • Yejin Kim,
  • Kwan-Woo Kim,
  • Amane Fujiwara,
  • Hisatomo Waga,
  • Jae Joong Kang,
  • Sang-Heon Lee,
  • Eun-Jin Yang and
  • Toru Hirawake

14 January 2022

The northern Bering and Chukchi seas are biologically productive regions but, recently, unprecedented environmental changes have been reported. For investigating the dominant phytoplankton communities and relative contribution of small phytoplankton...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,191 Views
24 Pages

14 January 2022

The analysis and prevention of hydrogeological risks plays a very important role and, currently, much attention is paid to advanced numerical models that correspond more to physical reality and whose aim is to reproduce complex environmental phenomen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,753 Views
15 Pages

Assessing Groundwater Withdrawal Sustainability in the Mexican Portion of the Transboundary Santa Cruz River Aquifer

  • Elia M. Tapia-Villaseñor,
  • Eylon Shamir,
  • Mary-Belle Cruz-Ayala and
  • Sharon B. Megdal

13 January 2022

The impact of climate uncertainties is already evident in the border communities of the United States and Mexico. This semi-arid to arid border region has faced increased vulnerability to water scarcity, propelled by droughts, warming atmosphere, pop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,603 Views
25 Pages

13 January 2022

The severe coastal erosions are being accelerated along the east coast of South Korea owing to the intermittent erosions and depositions caused by the imbalance between the effective sediment volume supplied from coasts and rivers and the sediment tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,672 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2022

Drought monitoring is challenging, but it is required for improving agricultural production, protecting the ecological environment, and reducing economic losses in drought-prone regions such as the Mongolian Plateau (MP). This study is a systematic a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,819 Views
25 Pages

13 January 2022

When water utilities establish water loss control programs, they traditionally focus on apparent loss rather than real loss when considering economic feasibility in the water sector. There is an urgent need for new management approaches that can addr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,141 Views
17 Pages

Environmental Hazards of an Unrecultivated Liquid Waste Disposal Site on Soil and Groundwater

  • Tamás Mester,
  • György Szabó,
  • Zsófi Sajtos,
  • Edina Baranyai,
  • Gergely Szabó and
  • Dániel Balla

13 January 2022

Disposal sites without adequate engineering controls pose a significant risk to the environment. In the present study, the environmental hazards of an abandoned and unrecultivated liquid waste disposal are investigated with a special focus on soil an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,275 Views
12 Pages

Achieving Partial Nitritation in Anammox Start-Up Environment

  • Sabin Pathak,
  • Shuai Wang and
  • Eshetu Janka

13 January 2022

Removing ammonium via the partial nitritation anammox (PNA) process has been widely applied because of its cost and energy effectiveness. However, the first stage of PNA, partial nitritation, is hard to implement practically due to the challenging su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,888 Views
19 Pages

Environmental Impact of Construction Products on Aquatic Systems—Principles of an Integrated Source–Path–Target Concept

  • Ute Schoknecht,
  • Olaf Tietje,
  • Nicole Borho,
  • Michael Burkhardt,
  • Mirko Rohr,
  • Anya Vollpracht and
  • Lia Weiler

13 January 2022

Buildings exposed to water can release undesirable substances which, once transported to environmental compartments, may cause unwanted effects. These exposure pathways need to be investigated and included in risk assessments to safeguard water quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,911 Views
28 Pages

Stochastic Flood Risk Assessment under Climate Change Scenarios for Toronto, Canada Using CAPRA

  • Daniela Rincón,
  • Juan Felipe Velandia,
  • Ioannis Tsanis and
  • Usman T. Khan

13 January 2022

Amongst all natural disasters, floods have the greatest economic and social impacts worldwide, and their frequency is expected to increase due to climate change. Therefore, improved flood risk assessment is important for implementing flood mitigation...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,700 Views
12 Pages

Coprostanol as a Population Biomarker for SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance Studies

  • Liam J. Reynolds,
  • Laura Sala-Comorera,
  • Mohd Faheem Khan,
  • Niamh A. Martin,
  • Megan Whitty,
  • Jayne H. Stephens,
  • Tristan M. Nolan,
  • Eadaoin Joyce,
  • Nicola F. Fletcher and
  • Wim G. Meijer
  • + 1 author

13 January 2022

Wastewater surveillance is a cost-effective tool for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a community. However, challenges remain with regard to interpretating such studies, not least in how to compare SARS-CoV-2 levels between different-sized waste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,027 Views
10 Pages

13 January 2022

Microorganism rebreeding and biofilm shedding enter the water body in the process of a drinking water distribution system (DWDS), which poses a threat to public health. Particles in water can gather pollutants as well as providing favorable growth co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,480 Views
17 Pages

12 January 2022

The wastewater from the biodiesel industry is an environmental problem, and from a sanitation resources perspective, the anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) is an interesting alternative for wastewater treatment. A better understanding of ASBR...

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