2025 March-2 - 138 articles
Groundwater fluoride levels have begun to be a global concern, posing significant challenges to the safe utilization of water resources and mitigating potential impacts on human health. Chronic exposure to elevated levels of naturally occurring fluor...
This study investigates the synthesis and application of hydroxyapatite (HAp)-modified zeolite materials for efficient fluoride removal from groundwater-based drinking water. Characterization confirmed the successful incorporation of HAp onto the zeo...
Accurate forecasting of river flows is essential for effective water resource management, flood risk reduction and environmental protection. The ongoing effects of climate change, in particular the shift in precipitation patterns and the increasing f...
Potential evapotranspiration (ETp) is an important component of the water and energy cycle. This study investigated the changing patterns of both summer ETp and its drivers in the Huai River Basin for the first time using the newly proposed anomaly c...
Accurate evaluation of groundwater quality and identification of key characteristics are essential for maintaining groundwater resources. The purpose of this study is to strengthen water quality evaluation through the SHAP and XGBoost algorithms, ana...
This paper presents a quantitative investigation into the hydrodynamic characteristics of a floating breakwater system encompassing an artificial floating island. The floating breakwater’s cross-section is configured as a collection of multiple...
This study is the first investigation into the content of heavy metals (ecotoxic) and metalloids in the available water resources of the Papuk Nature Park (Croatia), conducted after the war in Croatia. Analyses of 13 elements, As, B, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr,...
The increasingly serious imbalance between the supply and demand of water resources necessitates the establishment of a scientific and reasonable comprehensive evaluation method for industrial water use efficiency (WUE). In this study, a general meth...
Hydropower is a clean and renewable energy source, and cascade hydropower stations have been developed to enhance water energy utilization efficiency. While small hydropower stations have a smaller scale and environmental impact compared to large one...
Nitrification is the key process linking the oxidized and reduced forms of reactive nitrogen, playing an important role in the nitrogen biogeochemical cycle. Quantifying the nitrification rate and evaluating its environmental regulators in different...
Rapid population growth and urbanization are transforming natural landscapes into built environments, resulting in increased stormwater runoff, which poses significant challenges for local governments to manage. Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) te...
Furnas volcano, one of the three active central volcanoes of São Miguel (the Azores archipelago), hosts mineral waters with significant special variations, divided into hyperthermal (89.4–95.4 °C), thermal (29.9–70.0 °C), a...
The prediction made by former Vice President of the World Bank, Ismail Serageldin, that the wars of the 21st century will be about water, remains on the international political agenda. Yet, there is enough evidence corroborating that water wars have...
Water problems extend beyond the watershed of local communities and single countries. A novel governance approach must comprise coordination and institutional arrangements at the global scale, and rely on a set of axioms that guide the decision-makin...
Land use is known to be an important factor in the composition and function of adjacent freshwater lotic ecosystems. However, the relative effects of land use type, extent, intensity, and proximity on aquatic ecosystem quality are not fully understoo...
Climate change presents considerable challenges to hydrological stability by modifying precipitation patterns and exacerbating the frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events. This research evaluates the prospective alterations in rainfall qua...
Water resources management needs to be strengthened to address increasing flood and drought risks exacerbated by climate change and socio-economic development. This requires effective water governance mechanisms that can reduce vulnerability in disas...
Irrigation water quality is of critical importance for optimum crop yield of economically important field crops in the Kahramanmaraş plains. A preliminary ecotoxicological assessment is necessary before large-scale irrigation. Therefore, this st...
Lake Hume, a critical reservoir within the Murray River system, Australia, has been identified as a potential source of cyanobacteria in downstream rivers during past mega-blooms. This study aims to evaluate the impact of lake-level fluctuations on c...
Since the impoundment of the Baihetan Reservoir, water-involved landslides have become widespread. Existing studies on landslide-generated waves have rarely examined the impact of varying water levels on wave characteristics. This paper focuses on th...
The degradation of marine and coastal resources, caused mainly by human activities, underscores the urgent need for conservation. In waters around the Sichang Islands, the Bryde’s whale is listed as an endangered marine species. The extensive h...
This study investigates the bioremediation potential of Marinobacter-hydrocarbonoclasticus SDK644, a strain that has been isolated from petroleum-contaminated environments, for the degradation of the herbicide metribuzin and the treatment of slaughte...
The Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) model is an eco-friendly aquaculture system that enhances water purification through ecological niche utilization. A study employing 16S rRNA sequencing analyzed microbial communities in aquaculture wat...
The water distribution system is a critical infrastructure aiming to deliver safe and clean drinking water, with pipeline materials significantly influencing water quality and efficiency. One critical factor in selecting pipeline materials is the pot...
Water residence time (WRT) is a crucial parameter for evaluating the rate of water exchange and it serves as a timescale for elucidating hydrodynamic processes, pollutant dispersion, and biogeochemical cycling in coastal waters. This study investigat...
Chitosan (CS) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofiber membranes were synthesized via electrospinning and used as supporting materials for powdered porous organic polymer (POP). These membranes were then crosslinked with glutaraldehyde, resulting in nan...
This study focuses on Fortaleza, the largest metropolis in Brazil’s semi-arid region. Due to recurrent droughts, massive infrastructure like high-density reservoir networks, inter-municipal and interstate water transfer systems, and a seawater...
Prioritizing agricultural land use is a significant challenge for sustainable development in the rapidly urbanizing, semi-arid riverine basins of South Asia, especially under climate variability and water scarcity. This study introduces a systematic...
The massive loss of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from farmland ditches contributes to non-point source pollution, posing a significant global environmental challenge. Effectively removing these nutrients remains difficult in intensive agricultural...
Caffeine in aquatic ecosystems is an emerging contaminant causing significant environmental concern. In this work, spent coffee ground (SCG) was pyrolyzed at 300, 450, and 600 °C to produce pristine SCG biochars (CG), which were then ball-milled...
The widespread use of pesticides, such as atrazine and malathion, in agricultural systems raises significant concerns regarding the contamination of groundwater, which serves as a critical resource for drinking water. This study applies machine learn...
The optimization scheduling model of the hydro–solar complementary system has the characteristics of high dimension, nonlinearity, strong constraints, etc., and it is difficult to solve. In view of this problem, this paper proposes an Improved...
The Tiaozini wetland is an important part of the Yancheng Coastal Wetland, which is a World Natural Heritage Site. With the invasion of Spartina alterniflora, the ecology of the wetland has been severely damaged. The local government has carried out...
Although low-head dams in the USA provide water supply, irrigation, and recreation opportunities, many are unknown by regulators. Unfortunately, hundreds of drownings occur each decade at these dams from an entrapment current that can form immediatel...
High energy consumption and low aeration efficiency remain significant challenges in wastewater treatment. This study introduces a computational method that integrates the activated sludge model with Fluent (2021) to comprehensively simulate the inte...
The adsorption of chlorpheniramine (CPA) on a series of activated carbon (AC) samples was investigated. Commercial AC Megapol M (MM) samples were reactivated with CO2 at 800 °C for different times. The ACs were designated as MM4, MM8, and MM8A, c...
Coal mining disrupts soil structure and causes water loss, thereby affecting the ecological environment of mining areas. Rapid, accurate, and non-destructive detection of surface soil moisture is crucial for advancing ecological restoration in these...
Due to climate change, providing the population with clean drinking water, increasing the productivity of agricultural products in terms of quality and quantity, and the timely supply of necessary water to crops has become one of the main problems in...
This study assesses the effectiveness and limitations of publicly accessible runoff and river discharge reanalysis datasets through an intercomparison in the Upper Jinsha River, an alpine region with substantial hydropower potential on the eastern ed...
This study evaluates the physical, chemical, and biological properties of wastewater—comprising domestic sewage and agricultural drainage water—both before and after treatment to assess the efficiency of the applied processes. The physica...
Agricultural water trading is typically considered an effective water management mechanism, and decisions made by agricultural agents highly influence its effectiveness. Agent-based modelling (ABM) simulating agricultural agents in the water trading...
Microplastics (MPs) resulting from plastic fragmentation with a size less than 5 mm have become one of the main pollutants endangering the water environment. Therefore, it is necessary to know about the abundance and size distribution of MPs in sewag...
The occurrence and dissemination of resistomes within environmental compartments are worrisome, considering the huge public health challenge they may pose. Treated wastewater from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has been shown to contain enormous...
The Haihe River system, located in the East Asian monsoon climate zone, experiences uneven precipitation and significant variability, leading to frequent droughts and floods that disrupted economic and social development. While many studies have asse...
Water scarcity presents one of the greatest challenges of our time. Especially in naturally water-scarce regions, the need for additional water resources is rising, requiring innovative and site-adapted technologies. The decision for a specific techn...
The accurate knowledge of groundwater availability and its variations is crucial for sustainable groundwater management; in this framework, the water balance is a useful tool to assess the availability of water resources. Currently, the management au...
Accurate characterization of aquifer hydrogeological parameters is critical for sustainable groundwater resource management. Traditional methods such as pumping tests often assume aquifer homogeneity and require substantial resources, limiting their...
The moving particle semi-implicit method (MPS) has been employed to numerically simulate fluid flows. Further, some studies have used the MPS method to solve the Darcy–Brinkman equation, which also expresses fluid flow in porous media. However,...
Groundwater is a vital resource for ecosystems, with its recharge process influenced by climate change and urbanization. The transformation of natural and urban landscapes and the over-extraction of groundwater contribute to its depletion and degrada...
Floods pose significant risks worldwide, impacting lives, infrastructure, and economies. The Susurluk basin, covering 24,319 km2 in Türkiye, is highly vulnerable to flooding. This study updates the flood management plan for the basin, integratin...
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