2026 June-2 - 145 articles
De novo granulation of autochthonous microorganisms of water and wastewater reduces the start-up periods for cultivating aerobic granular sludge (AGS) and enrichment of degrading strains. However, it has not been demonstrated using refractory carbon...
Leakage detection in water distribution networks is a core component of smart water management. Addressing the limitations of traditional acoustic detection methods, which heavily rely on manual expertise, and the inadequate feature extraction and lo...
The Tomarrazón-Camarones Basin (La Guajira, Colombia) is characterized by frequent, widespread flooding and, anthropogenically, by intense instream sediment mining. Mapping flood hazard is hence essential to develop effective flood management...
To enhance the meteorological forecasting and early warning service capability for urban waterlogging risks in Jinan, this study aims to investigate the relationship between rainfall and urban waterlogging. Based on minute-scale precipitation observa...
River water quality monitoring data are often non-stationary and nonlinear and may contain occasional abnormal values. To support anomaly early warning, this study proposes an LSTM–SOA–DA framework. Water quality monitoring data for six i...
Plateau waters in Northern Sichuan, China, act as critical headwaters of the Yellow River. Microbial communities in water bodies and soil matrices within this region are increasingly pressured by intensive animal rearing; yet few studies have charact...
Water quality monitoring is a fundamental element of sustainable aquaculture management, as changes in parameters of physicochemical and biological properties directly affect the health, growth performance, and productivity of the aquaculture systems...
Vegetation is an important component of ecosystems and plays an important role in carbon balance, water balance, and energy conversion. The spatial and temporal changes in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), water resources, and hydrom...
The shells of testate amoebae are decay-resistant and well preserved in lake sediments, making them excellent biological indicators of climate change. In this study, the identification method for testate amoebae was initially optimized based on the c...
Groundwater flow is an integral part of the Earth’s water cycle and plays a key role in assessing groundwater resource potential, characterizing the upper limit of possible groundwater withdrawal over a long period without depletion. The object...
Tropical coastal waters are increasingly recognized as critical reservoirs for virulent, antibiotic-resistant enteric pathogens, yet seasonal dynamics governing their spatial distribution remain poorly characterized. We hypothesized that hydrological...
Excessive fluoride intake from drinking water remains a public health concern in geogenic high-fluoride regions, yet direct evidence linking environmental fluoride levels to internal exposure in remote high-altitude areas is limited. This study integ...
Burrowing crayfish are among the most important keystone species in North American ecosystems, yet they remain poorly understood. The Meadow River Mudbug (Cambarus pauleyi), native to West Virginia, was only recently described and is known from a ver...
Under the dual constraints of global food security and ecological protection, conventional agriculture is hampered by low resource efficiency and sluggish environmental response. Crop digital twin technology establishes a dynamic virtual reality syst...
An empirical model is developed to predict significant wave height and significant wave period using only wind speed at 10 m height, fetch, and water depth. The model distinguishes between fetch-limited and duration-limited sea states within a condit...
Urban water insecurity is an increasingly critical challenge in rapidly urbanizing regions of the Global South, driven by population growth, environmental degradation, infrastructure limitations, and institutional constraints. Kathmandu Valley, Nepal...
Mineral scaling on carbon electrodes remains a critical limitation to the long-term performance of capacitive deionization (CDI) systems treating hard and alkaline waters. In this study, alternating polarization (AP) is investigated as an in situ ele...
The use of mesocosms in stream ecology has long attracted the attention of researchers due to the clear advantages these systems offer for manipulative experiments. Despite some limitations, they provide an effective way to create semi-natural condit...
The biological treatment risk associated with wastewater containing the novel pigment intermediate N,N′-(1,4-phenylene)bis(acetoacetamide) has not been previously characterized. This study systematically evaluated the tolerance and performance...
Springs are environmentally stable habitats that are refugia for specialized species. Springs at Monte Generoso, Monte Bar, and Monte Tamaro in the southern Swiss Alps were investigated to understand how they are affected by human activities and envi...
This study established a refined, distributed SWAT modeling framework that integrates elevation-band and snowmelt modules to reconstruct the alpine hydrological and sediment cycles of the Koshi River Basin (KRB) over the period 1990–2024, with...
Soil is the principal physical space for water conservation (WC), so analyzing the driving forces of soil on WC is significant for studying WC services and integrated environmental management. Guangdong Province, a major economic province in China, w...
The transition to a circular economy requires the safe management of sewage sludge through nutrient and energy recovery. However, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) present a significant challenge. These compounds tend to accumulate i...
Understanding how irrigation water management shapes crop performance is critical for improving productivity and resource-use efficiency in peri-urban agriculture. This study investigated the socio-technical factors driving sprinkler system abandonme...
Min County experiences intense debris flow activity due to extreme weather and geological events. This study analyzes debris flow activity in Min County using GIS spatial analysis, time-series statistics, correlation analysis, periodic fitting, and f...
Sewage sludge management is increasingly shifting from a liability-focused “treat-and-dispose” approach toward resource recovery, where digestion residues and their liquid fractions are treated as secondary feedstocks for nutrient, water,...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent emerging contaminants characterized by high environmental stability and biotoxicity. Ubiquitous detection of these contaminants across aquatic environments poses severe threats to ecosystem s...
To elucidate the pollution status and spatial distribution patterns of microplastics in representative deep-sea regions of China, the Qiongdongnan sea area has emerged as a key focus area for microplastic research. A comprehensive assessment of micro...
Water resource management in the Sahelian-Sudanian transition zone faces growing uncertainty under climate change, yet hydrological projections remain scarce for the Oti-Pendjari basin (West Africa). This study develops an integrated modelling chain...
Accurate three-dimensional characterization of turbulent flows in natural waterways is essential for the effective design of tidal farms and other critical infrastructure situated along or across rivers. High-fidelity predictions based on the large-e...
Understanding how climate variability is reflected in streamflow is essential for reservoir management and hydropower planning. This study investigated how temporal scale influences climate–streamflow relationships, persistence characteristics, and p...
The relationship between water and sediment in the lower reaches of the Yellow River is uncoordinated, leading to frequent floods. In this area, the floodplain is situated below the main channel and embankment foundations, increasing the likelihood o...
Across human history, water has sustained communities while also shaping religious imagination as a symbol of life, danger, purification, and renewal. This review examines how water acquires religious meaning through symbolic associations, ritual use...
Increasing pressure on surface water resources in intensive agricultural regions has driven the search for sustainable alternatives for irrigation supply, especially in areas where water quality limits crop safety and export opportunities. In this co...
Human activities and economic development require large amounts of water and energy. The analysis of the nexus between water and energy flows can improve the understanding of the quantitative relationship between the two resources and guide actions a...
Climate change is expected to significantly affect hydrological processes in high-Andean basins, where water availability depends strongly on seasonal precipitation and groundwater recharge. This study evaluates future impacts on runoff, groundwater...
Reliable prediction of landslide run-out distance is of great importance for hazard zoning and risk mitigation. However, most previous studies evaluate model performance within a single landslide inventory, while the transferability of models across...
This study presents regionalisation of the Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) distribution by adopting L moments and Bayesian Generalised Least Squares (BGLS) regression. This uses data from 88 gauged catchments in New South Wales, Australia. The region...
This study evaluates the microbiological quality of drinking water in the urban area of Guaranda through an integrated approach combining culture-based methods, biochemical characterization, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. A total of 50...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in farmland soils pose potential ecological and human health risks, yet their contamination characteristics and source-related risks in farmland soils across different river basins in China remain insufficientl...
The Liujiaxia–Heishanxia reach is critical for water and sediment regulation in the upper Yellow River, where changes in runoff–sediment relationships greatly affect downstream channel stability and flood safety. Climate change and intens...
To investigate the three-dimensional seepage response and safety implications of high concrete-face rockfill dams (CFRDs) under waterstop failure scenarios, this study establishes a refined three-dimensional finite element model for a high CFRD at th...
Anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) is increasingly applied in sewage-sludge management and organic-waste treatment because it can improve methane recovery, stabilize mixed substrates, and reduce life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions under appropriate feedst...
Accurate prediction of groundwater level (GWL) is of great significance for refined groundwater management. This study establishes a multi-model framework for predicting groundwater level by integrating the three-dimensional transient MODFLOW model,...
Eutrophication remains a persistent water-quality problem in shallow lakes, where external inputs interact with internal loading and biogeochemical cycling. Although floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) are increasingly promoted as nature-based solutio...
Reservoirs in karst regions exhibit significant carbon sink potential; however, how different reservoir types influence carbon sequestration remains poorly understood. In this study, dual carbon isotopes (δ13C–Δ14C) were applied to...
Groundwater contamination by redox-sensitive elements (RSEs) such as arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), vanadium (V), and selenium (Se) pose a critical challenge in alluvial aquifers, where seasonal hydrological forcing drives dynamic hydrogeochemical and...
Traditional reservoir flood control operations in China have long relied on a fixed flood-limited water level (FLWL), which frequently results in the underutilization of water resources during flood seasons. Dynamic FLWL regulation and joint reservoi...
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are key tools for mitigating the impacts of human activities on marine biodiversity and addressing climate change. Consequently, nations worldwide have committed to international targets to expand MPA coverage, leading t...
Next-generation wastewater treatment and recycling rely on membrane-based processes, but they face a trade-off among permeability, selectivity, and fouling resistance. In the present study, thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes were fabricated by i...
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