2025 November-1 - 155 articles
With the growing global demand for renewable energy, the pump as turbine (PAT) exhibits significant potential in the micro-hydropower sector. To reveal its internal unsteady flow characteristics and energy loss mechanisms, this study analyzes the int...
Agriculture uses 80% of global water resources, driving several water management challenges across the world. These challenges require the exchange of effective practices. We found that California’s Tulare Lake Basin (TLB) and Mexico’s Na...
Accurate assessment of wetland hydraulic performance and solute treatment depends on the spatial resolution of bed topography and vegetation density. To evaluate this influence, synthetic shallow-water wetlands with spatially correlated random fields...
Water inrush disasters pose a serious threat during tunnel construction. Accurately evaluating their evolution process is essential for timely prevention and risk mitigation. Given the staged nature of seepage-instability-induced inrushes and the sen...
Groundwater (GW) and surface water (SW), two crucial factors in the water cycle, are often viewed in an artificially segmented way within scientific research, resulting in insufficient interactions between them, especially in areas in which frequent...
Cities use 311 platforms for residents to report flooding, offering insight into flood-prone areas. The combined role of environmental and socioeconomic factors shaping these reports remains unexplored. This study analyzes five years of 311 flood rep...
The present study focuses on the extraordinary isolated high-level depression event that occurred on 29 October 2024 over the eastern Iberian Peninsula (Spain). The emphasis of the study is on the Turia and Magro river basins and the Albufera of Vale...
Bathing water quality (BWQ) monitoring and prediction are essential to safeguard public health by informing bathers about the risk of exposure to faecal indicator bacteria (FIBs). Traditional monitoring approaches, such as manual sampling and laborat...
An accurate understanding of the spatiotemporal variations in wetland ecosystem health is beneficial for guiding sustainable management and achieving sustainable development goals. To overcome the limitations single indicator approaches, this study p...
The presence of organic matter can alter the dewatering characteristics of river-dredged silt and affect the dewatering efficiency. This study systematically compared the dewatering effects of cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM), ferric chloride (FeCl3),...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has become a promising tool for phytoplankton surveys. However, the accuracy of eDNA-based detection is related to primer selection across diverse environments, and optimal primer pairs selection on phytoplankton community in...
This study evaluated the decadal trends and spatial distribution of four irrigation suitability indices—Electrical Conductivity (EC), Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR), Magnesium Hazard (MH), and Kelley’s Ratio (KR)—using agricultural g...
The widespread and excessive use of plastic in our daily life has led to serious microplastic pollution in the atmosphere, water, and soil. These microplastics can enter freshwater systems and pose significant risks to the ecosystem and human health...
Developing countries face the dilemma of balancing economic development with the governance of the water environment. In the 21st century, water environment governance has become a core theme in Chinese society, prompting governments at all levels to...
Tropical agriculture requires sustainable irrigation solutions that balance water availability with quality and environmental protection. This review synthesizes current knowledge on riverbank filtration (RBF)—a nature-based technology for impr...
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are regarded as a major threat to public health and ecological security globally. The Dongliao River Basin is a typical farming–pastoral ecotone in the northeast of China. It is of great practical significance...
Rapid environmental change is reshaping freshwater ecosystems, influencing food availability and predator–prey dynamics. This study examined interactions among four freshwater invertebrates—the cnidarian Hydra viridissima (HV), the turbel...
The Chesapeake Bay (CB) region faces significant risks from relative sea-level change (RSLC), driven by global mean sea-level rise (GMSLR), regional sea-level rise (RSLR), and local land subsidence (LS). This study introduces a methodology to deciphe...
Accurately understanding the impact of Significant Wave Height (SWH) on mariculture productivity is crucial for developing a sustainable blue economy and mitigating the effects of increasing marine extreme events under climate change. However, a sign...
Concrete-lined river channels are generally assumed to prevent groundwater exchange, functioning as inert conduits that isolate surface flow. Along the Upper Los Angeles River of Southern California, United States, however, field observations show th...
Numerical simulation models are very useful for assessing groundwater flow and levels in a given region. With the scarcity of available groundwater resources after the 2000s, the city of Beijing adopted policies for the rehabilitation of these resour...
Thisreview provides a comprehensive synthesis of recent theoretical and experimental advances on turbulent plane jets interacting with surface waves or rigid vegetation. In wave-affected conditions, a unified mathematical framework based on velocity...
Most of the phosphorus (P) input from feed ends up accumulating in the pond water or sediment, ultimately harming the environment. Rice demonstrates remarkable bioremediation potential. However, the mechanisms by which long-term rice impacts the sedi...
Food production is among the most environmentally intensive human activities, and its impacts are intensifying under population growth and increasingly resource-demanding consumption patterns. Agricultural practices have responded through the expansi...
Vegetation colonizing fluvial sandbars provides many noteworthy functions in river and floodplain systems, but it also influences hydrodynamic processes, mainly during flooding events. Numerical modelling is generally used to evaluate the impact of f...
Constructed wetland beds are in widespread use for treating wastewater. Their use is well known, and current research is focused on the use of new substrates and different bed configurations, or on assisting the oxygenation process. The authors condu...
The role of sedimentary heterogeneity in reactive transport processes is becoming increasingly important as closed open-pit lignite mines are converted into post-mining lakes or pumped hydropower storage reservoirs. Flooding of the open pits introduc...
This study investigates the influence of shallow water-bearing sand layers on surface subsidence characteristics in coal mining areas with thick loose strata, with the ultimate goal of contributing to sustainable environmental protection. Firstly, a...
This paper presents the hydrological and meteorological parameters of the Wolfgang storm surge on the southern Baltic Sea coast and the storm’s impact on coastal areas with highly urbanised and developed zones. The surge emerged during a rare c...
Coastal ecosystems are becoming less resilient under climate (e.g., sea-level rise, warming, acidification) and human (e.g., urbanization, coastal hardening, and river regulation) pressures, forcing local communities to face increasing risk levels. T...
Water resources are fundamental to human survival, as well as critical to the sustainable progress of the economy and society. This study selects representative indicators and employs the TOPSIS model to evaluate the water resources carrying capacity...
Accurate river runoff prediction plays a vital role in water resource management, agricultural scheduling, disaster prevention, and climate adaptation. To address three long-standing challenges in multi-basin hydrological modeling—the insuffici...
Nowadays, because of the severe contradiction between water supply and demand, a large amount of ecological water resources are occupied by other water-using sectors, resulting in the rapid degradation of the ecological environment, especially in ari...
The labyrinth weir is an effective hydraulic structure, offering high discharge efficiency and economic advantages, making it a suitable option for dam construction or rehabilitation projects. Owing to its complex geometry, significant research effor...
Flooding is one of the most frequent and destructive natural disasters worldwide, with intensifying socioeconomic and environmental consequences linked to rapid urbanisation and climate change. This review examines flood risk delineation and assessme...
Within the context of global climate change, the hydrological and sediment load dynamics in the Huai River Basin are expected to continue evolving due to intensified human activities and environmental changes. Effective river management requires a cl...
This study presents a data-driven forecasting framework for surface water state trends using time-series modelling based on hydrochemical monitoring data from the Ikva River (Ukraine). The monitoring campaign, conducted between 2021 and 2023, involve...
Maritime ferries increasingly operate under non-stationary hydro–meteorological conditions that complicate cost planning. This study investigates how short-term weather variability affects expenditures for a ferry on the Gdynia–Karlskrona...
High-Andean lakes are strategic freshwater ecosystems whose monitoring is essential for effective water resource management. However, their optical complexity limits the applicability of conventional methods. In this study, the water quality conditio...
This paper investigates the integration of hydropower and solar energy within the Lower Olt River cascade as a pathway toward sustainable energy generation in Romania. The study focuses on the conceptual design of future hybrid power plants consistin...
Efficient water management for irrigation is critical for sustaining plant production in arid and hyper-arid regions, where optimizing emitter type, burial depth, and irrigation scheduling can significantly enhance water-use efficiency and yield. Thi...
Forests are pivotal to hydrologic regulation, yet province-wide dynamics across complex terrain remain insufficiently quantified. We quantified Sichuan’s forest water conservation dynamics (1990–2023), coupling the InVEST water yield mode...
Seawater desalination has emerged as a crucial solution for addressing global freshwater scarcity. However, it generates significant volumes of concentrated brine waste. This brine is rich in dissolved salts and minerals, primarily, chloride (55%), s...
Tetracycline (TC), commonly utilized in medicine and aquaculture, frequently enters aquatic environments, raising ecological concerns. This study examined TC-contaminated wastewater treated through ultraviolet (UV), potassium persulfate (PS), and com...
To address the issues of zero-valent iron Fe(0) passivation and limited nitrogen and phosphorus removal in constructed wetlands (CWs), this study investigated the enhancement effect of two carbon materials—activated carbon (AC) obtained through...
Small rural water utilities in the Appalachia region of the US often experience extreme water loss while struggling to maintain water quality compliance. This study quantifies the impact of reducing water loss on distribution system water quality in...
An effective understanding of sediment deposition and erosion in river basins, particularly floodplains, is critical for modeling geomorphic evolution, managing flood risks, and maintaining ecological integrity. However, most related studies have bee...
Groundwater represents a critical component of the Earth’s freshwater system, sustaining human populations, agriculture, and ecosystems worldwide [...]
The implementation strategy of a nowcasting methodology can be crucial to pursue skillful results in an operational context to obtain reliable short forecasts with as much as possible reduced errors. In this work, a spectral nowcasting algorithm was...
The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in river basin pollution control shows great potential to improve governance efficiency through real-time monitoring, pollution prediction, and intelligent decision-making. However, its rapid developmen...
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