Water, Volume 17, Issue 19

Urban water utilities in rapidly developing regions face growing challenges in ensuring continuous supply. Intermittent public water supply leads to unreliable and inequitable access, compelling households to adopt energy-intensive coping strategies....

Water shortage has been a serious issue for many years. Hydrate-based desalination (HBD) technology is a potential candidate for this solution. The present study investigates the use of Cyclopentane (CP) as a hydrate former for desalination through c...

Predicting how vegetation–debris interactions reshape alternate sandbars under a steady subcritical flow remains poorly understood in laboratory-to-field scaling. This study quantified how vegetation density and layout interact with debris geom...

In 2023, studies were carried out on the aquatic environment of the forest lake Łętowskie. The studies covered the horizontal and vertical planes and seasonal dynamics. Lake Łętowskie is a lake with an area of 402 ha, which distin...

Terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA) plays a vital role in regulating the global water cycle and freshwater availability. Understanding the drivers behind long-term TWSA changes is critical, yet disentangling natural and anthropogenic influences...

Laboratory incubation experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of coal fly ash (FA) amendment (0%, 2.5%, 7.5%, and 15%) and moisture regimes (40%, 70%, and 100% water holding capacity (WHC)) on the mineralization of carbon (C) in an acid...

The Huangshui River Basin is located in the transition zone between the Loess Plateau and the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, characterized by a fragile hydrological and ecological environment. Groundwater serves as a vital water source for local econom...

The escalating issue of water pollution driven by rapid industrialization necessitates the development of advanced remediation technologies. In this study, a novel method for producing chromium (Cr(VI)) ion-imprinted biochar (Cr(VI)-IIP-PEI@NBC) from...

Developing a robust Fenton-like catalyst through a feasible method is a significant challenge and is crucial for sustainability in wastewater treatment. Herein, we report a novel dual-phase H₂O₂ activation for ^•OH generation via both heterogeneo...

With the characteristic of “decentralized distribution and local power supply”, small hydropower (SHP) in China has become a core means of solving the problem of insufficient power supply in rural and remote mountainous areas, effectively...

This Special Issue is the third edition following the publication of the first issue of “Yellow River Basin Management under Pressure: Present State, Restoration and Protection” in 2022 and the second issue in 2023 [...]

Heavy rainfall events in the southern Anhui region are the main meteorological disasters, often leading to floods and secondary disasters. This article explores the mechanisms supporting extreme precipitation by studying the spatiotemporal characteri...

Internal waves play a critical role in material transport, vertical mixing, and energy dissipation within stratified aquatic systems. Their dynamics are strongly modulated by thermal stratification and surface meteorological forcing. This study exami...

Although bacterial and fungal communities play essential roles in organic matter degradation and humification during composting, their composition, interactions, abiotic compost properties, and succession patterns remain unclear. In this study, the s...

This study investigates groundwater salinization in a section of a coastal aquifer in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, using frequency-domain electromagnetic (FDEM) measurements. With the global expansion of shrimp farming in ecologically sensitive coast...

Recovery from disasters is the complex process requiring coordinated measures to restore infrastructure, services and quality of life. While remote sensing is a well-established means for damage assessment, so far very few studies have shown how sate...

Heavy metal(loid) (HM) contamination in water arises from various anthropogenic activities and natural processes, posing risks to human health through ingestion and dermal absorption. Although numerous studies have assessed health risks associated wi...

Recent years have seen the growth of hydrologic and hydraulic models operating at varying spatial resolutions at regional scales, which emphasizes the need for consistent naming methodologies to enhance model interoperability and integration across d...

Stricter requirements on nutrient removal in wastewater treatment are being imposed by rapid urbanization and tightening water-quality standards. Despite their excellent solid–liquid separation and effective biological treatment, MBRs in conven...

Anthropogenic barriers fragment Portuguese rivers, threatening endemic freshwater fish communities. This study compiled national inventories and peer-reviewed research (2002–2024) to quantify fishway implementation, evolution and typology, whil...

In the context of the growing promotion of sustainable urban mobility policies, traffic calming is one of the main actions adopted by local, regional, and national administrations to support the liveability and vitality of residential and commercial...

Wave-powered desalination systems integrate reverse osmosis (RO) with renewable ocean energy, providing a sustainable and environmentally responsible approach to freshwater production. This study aims to investigate wave-powered RO desalination using...

The water consumption processes of vegetation play an important role in water resource management in semiarid regions, while the difference in water consumption between native and exotic species is unclear. In this study, the exotic Pinus sylvestris...

In response to the increasing demand for environmentally friendly and cost-effective adsorbents in wastewater treatment, this study reports the green synthesis, characterization, and application of a magnetic epichlorohydrin Rosa canina (m-ECH-RC) na...

The main aim of this study was to analyze the excessive biomass of invasive alien aquatic plants reducing the water quality of a lake which was restored in the past. This study was conducted on Długie Lake (26.8 ha, 17.3 m, Masurian Lake Distric...

Mineral water content strongly depends on the geologic layer characteristics. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to make a comparison between two renowned mineral water sources in Romania, Borsec and Tusnad. Two public springs were selected f...

Related studies analyzing the spatial structure of soil moisture from both horizontal and vertical directions, as well as the spacing interval distances of soil moisture sampling points in typical karst demonstration zones, are relatively rare. This...

Understanding flow dynamics in open-channel node systems is crucial for designing effective hydraulic engineering solutions and minimizing energy losses. This study investigates how junction geometry—specifically the lateral inflow angle (&alph...

In this study, four types of Fe₃O₄-based magnetic nanospheres were functionalized with distinct surface groups to examine how surface chemistry influences their co-transport with tetracycline (TC) in porous media. The functional groups investigated a...

China faces the persistent challenge of uneven spatiotemporal water resource distribution, constraining economic and social development while exacerbating regional disparities. Achieving co-evolution between water source systems and water use systems...

Compression of clayey sediments not only causes land subsidence but also results in geogenic high fluoride groundwater. The distribution characteristics and enrichment mechanisms of fluoride in alluvial−lacustrine facies clayey sediments in the...

Accurate short-term forecasting of urban water demand is a persistent challenge for utilities seeking to optimize operations, reduce energy costs, and enhance resilience in smart distribution systems. This study presents a multi-scale Artificial Neur...

Sludge bulking in wastewater treatment is often caused by massive filamentous bacteria. This study aimed to turn such bacteria into a stable system dominated by filamentous biofilms (FBs) by using a continuous flow reactor (CFR) fed with simulated do...

Lake sediments are important indicators of human activities and environmental changes, while lakes in northern China receive little attention. Heavy metal elements in core sediments from Bosten Lake (BST) in the arid area, Wuliangsuhai Lake (WLS) in...

Armed conflicts continue to severely impact human populations and essential infrastructure, particularly water supply systems. This study examines the Yechilla area, a high-intensity battle corridor during the Tigray (between 12°15′26&Prime...

This study develops an integrated framework for groundwater pollution source identification by coupling Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF), and the Mantel test, with the Qujiang River Basin as a case study. The fr...

Rainfall-induced landslide deformation is governed by both intrinsic geological conditions and external dynamic triggers. However, many existing predictive models rely primarily on rainfall inputs, which limits their interpretability and robustness....

Surface irrigation systems are among the most common yet often inefficient methods due to poor design and management. A key factor in optimizing their design is the accurate prediction of the water advance and infiltration relationships’ coeffi...

This study aims to assess the effect of vegetation angle and density on hydrostatic pressure and acceleration of a downstream house model experimentally. The vegetation cylinders were positioned at angles 30°, 45°, 60° and 90° with re...

The coordinated development of a complex system refers to the harmonious and coherent evolution of its subsystems. From the perspective of the coordinated development of ecological–economic–social complex systems, this paper analyzes the...

Wetland mapping plays a crucial role in monitoring wetland ecosystems, water resource management, and habitat suitability assessment. Wetland classification remains significantly challenging due to the diverse types, intricate spatial patterns, and h...

Former coal mining in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, leads to significant challenges in flood management due to drainless sinks in urban areas caused by ground depression. Consequently, pumping stations have been constructed to ena...

Erosion monitoring was carried out between 2003 and 2022 using a hydrological station with a Thomson overflow, a water gauge, and a limnigraph installed at the outlet of the Kolonia Celejów gully system. The study area is located in the north-...

Extreme rainfall events characterized by small catchments with high-velocity flows pose critical challenges to infrastructure resilience, particularly the rail infrastructure, due to its partial location near rivers and in mountainous regions, and th...

Based on monitoring data from 2019 to 2024 at 270 typical surface drinking water sources (SDWS) in the Pearl River Basin (PRB), the occurrence and health risks of metal and metalloid pollutants (MMPs) were analyzed from a large watershed scale and lo...

Water is a fundamental resource for ecosystem health and sustainable societal development [...]

This study examines the longitudinal relationship and interactions among comprehensive water management, human development, and fragility. The seventeen Middle Eastern countries were examined for the period from 1996 to 2023. The Human Development In...

One of the limiting factors in the implementation of water resource management is the absence of tools that help water programs evaluate processes and progress. This is because, until now, the indicators that have been developed have not addressed sp...

Hydrological modeling is critical for assessing water availability and guiding sustainable resource management, particularly in monsoon-dependent, data-scarce basins such as the Chalakudy River Basin (CRB) in Kerala, India. This study integrated the...

This study examines the potential for improved and more sustainable wastewater treatment by integrating coagulation and disinfection using polyaluminum chloride (PACl) and sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) for secondary effluent. The impacts of this integr...