2025 September-2 - 135 articles
The growing threat of dam-break events, fueled by aging infrastructure and climate change, necessitates comprehensive risk management and mitigation strategies. Experimental studies on partial dam-break flows are pivotal for understanding the complex...
Background: Polluted rivers may become reservoirs of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli (AREc), raising concerns about environmental health. While monitoring is crucial for recognizing their incidence and evaluating mitigation solutions, current a...
Per-polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a class of persistent organic pollutants that have been detected in several environmental matrices. Photoelectrocatalysis (PEC) was employed to remove PFASs contained in natural groundwater collected in the...
Produced water, a typical byproduct of oil and gas extraction, is considered a significant environmental and health problem due to its heavy metals content. The objective of this study is to evaluate and compare the efficiency of seven low-cost, wast...
A wadi ecosystem, a wetland characterized by seasonal water flow, is a unique freshwater environment typically found in semi-arid and arid regions. This study investigates the seasonal and spatial dynamics of environmental properties and microbial pl...
This study investigates the recent changes in the relationship between annual precipitation, mean annual air temperature, mean annual river discharge, and annual runoff coefficients in two small, neighboring continental catchments in Slovenia and Cro...
Despite advances in water treatment technologies and monitoring systems, contamination events in drinking water supply systems (DWSSs) still pose a threat to public health. Since timing is crucial in effectively mitigating impacts, the implementation...
A GIS-based Plant Coefficient Method (PCM), termed the Plant Coefficient Method Tool (PCMT), is presented and validated through this research. It is designed for sustainable irrigation management within arid urban environments, exemplified by Riyadh,...
Pumped storage power stations are effective stabilizers and regulators of the power grids. However, during the transient process, especially the operating point entering the S-shaped region, the internal flow patterns and pressure pulsations in the p...
Sustainable management of Portunus pelagicus is hindered by uncertain stock boundaries across rapidly changing marginal seas and culturally diverse markets. We measured 12 size-adjusted morphometrics in 525 adults from five sites (Kyushu, Xiamen, Tai...
In order to investigate the adsorption characteristics of Cu2+, Zn2+, and Mn2+ on natural diatomite in liquid/solid systems and to provide reliable theoretical support for the application of these materials, we conducted a series of adsorption studie...
The integrity of urban water supply pipelines, an essential element of municipal infrastructure, is frequently undermined by internal defects such as corrosion, tuberculation, and foreign matter. Traditional inspection methods relying on CCTV are tim...
The increasing droughts and climate change effects and their frequencies worldwide are a critical threat, especially to regions facing water scarcity and wars. Therefore, comprehensive drought evaluation and trend analysis are crucial for water resou...
This study investigates electrodialysis (ED) performance for desalination and concentration of monovalent salts (NaCl, NH4Cl, KCl, and NaNO3) at varying mass concentrations. Systematic comparisons of current efficiency (η), energy consumption, wa...
To explore the effects of micro-nano aeration and oxygenation irrigation on soil characteristics and cotton growth in cotton fields in arid areas, this study was conducted at the National Soil Quality Aksu Observation and Experiment Station in Baiche...
This study prepared an adsorption-based water-containing lunar regolith simulant under low-temperature conditions to investigate H2O behavior in simulated lunar environments. Experiments established that water binds to regolith particles via adsorpti...
This study aims to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution of cavitating flow and the associated acoustic responses around a NACA0015 hydrofoil. A coupled fluid–acoustic interaction model is developed by integrating a nonlinear cavitation mode...
Southern Kazakhstan, particularly the Zhambyl Region, is facing increasing groundwater stress due to climate change, degradation of irrigation infrastructure, and unsustainable water use. Despite substantial renewable groundwater reserves (8.33 km3/y...
Hydrological runoff prediction serves as the core technological foundation for water resource management and flood/drought mitigation. However, the nonlinear, non-stationary, and multi-temporal scale characteristics of runoff data result in insuffici...
Urban flooding caused by short and high-intensity rainfall events presents increasing challenges for cities, threatening infrastructure, public safety and economic activity. Accurately representing infiltration processes in hydrodynamic models is cri...
Shale gas wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses significant environmental risks due to its high salinity and complex inorganic composition. This study investigates the behavior of major and trace inorganic constituents across a full-scale treatm...
Despite increasing concerns over recurrent phosphorus (P) pollution, the Ju River—a small tributary of the Yangtze River—has received limited scientific attention. To correct this, the present study integrates field-based observations wit...
Activated sludge microorganisms in sewage treatment plants are crucial for controlling water pollution and protecting public health and the ecological environment. Activated sludge must have biodegradation, easy sedimentation, and separation function...
Coastal marshes provide essential ecosystem services, yet they are vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors and climate change, particularly sea level rise (SLR). Restoration approaches like marsh terracing have emerged as nature-based strategies to enh...
Accurate streamflow modeling in data-scarce catchments remains a significant challenge due to the limited availability of historical records. Transfer Learning (TL), increasingly applied in hydrology, leverages knowledge from data-rich catchments (so...
Campylobacter spp. and Arcobacter spp. are recognized etiological agents of gastroenteritis worldwide. While poultry is their best-known reservoir, human exposure can also occur via environmental pathways, particularly through contaminated water sour...
Under the multiple pressures of intensifying global climate change disruption and rapid economic growth, China has become one of the countries facing the most serious water scarcity problems. Based on the ISO 14046 standard and the framework of water...
In regional flood frequency analysis (RFFA), the formation of homogeneous regions is commonly regarded as a necessary condition for reliable regional flood estimation. However, achieving true homogeneity is often challenging in practice. This study i...
Displacement monitoring data is essential for assessing the structural safety of high-arch dams. Existing models, predominantly based on single-model architectures, often lack the ability to effectively integrate multiple algorithms, leading to limit...
Phosphorus (P) discharge from onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTSs) poses a significant threat to water quality, contributing to eutrophication in nutrient-sensitive aquatic environments. In treated effluents, P predominantly exists as orthopho...
Deep learning-based water body extraction methods generally focus on maximizing accuracy while neglecting inference speed, which can make them challenging to apply in real-time applications. To address this problem, this paper proposes a lightweight...
The presence of toxic elements in drinking water poses important risks to human health. Among the diverse methodologies available to remove these elements from water, adsorption methods are among the most effective; however, many adsorbent materials...
The accurate and efficient acquisition of the spatiotemporal distribution of surface water is of vital importance for water resource utilization, flood monitoring, and environmental protection. However, deep learning models often suffer from two majo...
While studies have shown that heavy metal sulfides in sediments are not bioavailable, most of them are acid-extractable (AE) and inseparable from non-sulfides in sediments. Exceptions were found recently that mercury and copper sulfides precipitated...
This study provides a comparative analysis of agricultural practices, water resource management, and environmental risks in two rural communes of Transylvania, Romania—Ceanu Mare (Cluj County) and Chețani (Mureș County). Data were col...
To mitigate membrane fouling in the ultrafiltration process of surface water, this study focused on the source water from the Songhua River, systematically investigating the efficacy and mechanism of combined ferrate(VI) (Fe(VI)) and manganese(II) (M...
The Sahel Transboundary Taoudéni Basin, covering about 20% of Burkina Faso, hosts vital aquifers critical for water security and development. Effective groundwater monitoring is essential for sustainable resource management. In the Kou sub-bas...
The Gadouras Reservoir, Rhodes Island’s primary water source, experiences recurrent whiting events—milky turbidity from calcium carbonate precipitation—that challenge treatment operations, with impacts compounded by a major 2023 wil...
This study evaluates the larvicidal effects of three common water disinfectants, silver (AgNO3), copper (CuSO4·5H2O), and hypochlorite (NaOCl) ions. The treatments were combined at 40–50% of their recommended drinking water guidelines an...
Microbial communities play a pivotal role in material cycling, energy flow, and pollutant degradation within river ecosystems. Thus, gaining a clear understanding of how wastewater discharge affects microbial community structure and function is essen...
This study conducted a systematic review of 222 research articles (2014–2024) from the Web of Science Core Collection database to investigate the ecological and environmental impacts of pumped hydro storage (PHS). Utilizing CiteSpace 6.1R softw...
Aquaculture wastewater is characterized by large discharge volumes and variable nitrogen concentrations, posing challenges for stable and efficient treatment. This study investigated biochar-amended bioretention systems (BBSs) under varying temperatu...
Since the 1990s, glaciers in the Ányêmaqên Mountains of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau have exhibited anomalous retreat and thinning. This persistent deglaciation has triggered secondary disasters including glacial debris flows, i...
Pressure on fresh water resources has been aggravated in recent decades, basically due to population growth, rapid urbanization, and global warming. Integrated engineering solutions and the circular economy, considering the urban water cycle as a who...
Water scarcity and rising urban demand pose growing challenges for sustainable water management in Brazil, where over 73 million people may face shortages by 2035. Given this scenario, rainwater utilisation has emerged as a strategic alternative for...
Globally, wetlands have suffered severe degradation due to natural environmental changes and human activities. The wetlands on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) play a unique and critical ecological role, making it essential to understand their s...
Drought is an extremely terrifying environmental calamity, causing declining agricultural production, escalating food prices, water scarcity, soil erosion, increased wildfire risks, and changes in ecosystem. Drought data is noisy and poses challenges...
The process of designing water distribution networks is divided into two main stages: network layout routing and pipe sizing. However, routing and sizing are not separate tasks—the shape of the network affects the diameters of the pipes, and vi...
The research on river and lake resilience management, ecological restoration, and disaster reduction technologies aims to comprehensively improve the health, stability, and sustainability of aquatic ecosystems. It seeks to reduce the natural disaster...
Deep coal seams have low permeability and poor wettability, making gas extraction difficult. This study presents a zero-energy consumption pulsating water hammer fracturing technique that uses the gravitational potential energy of high-elevation wate...
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