2026 June-2 - 145 articles
Ensuring safe and palatable drinking water is critical for long-duration space travel and part of NASA’s 2022 strategic goals. This study investigated whether the formation of iodoform occurred when iodine reacts with trace levels of dissolved...
This editorial introduces and synthesizes the contributions included in this Special Issue on advanced numerical methods for multiphase and cavitating flows [...]
Flooding is one of the most common and destructive natural disasters worldwide, and projections indicate that its intensity will increase across various climate regions during this century. South Sudan is particularly vulnerable due to a combination...
The effective management and optimization of urban water networks is essential for addressing the growing challenges posed by aging infrastructure, population growth, urbanization, and climate change [...]
We study the extreme behavior of six central Chile glacier mass balance series facing significant retreats and ice wastage due to climate variability and change. This has led to reduced meltwater availability in dry seasons, increasing competition fo...
Drought is a widespread natural hazard in China that can sequentially trigger meteorological, hydrological, agricultural, and socio-economic drought types, yet traditional drought indices typically focus on a single hydrologic component and cannot ca...
The Tietê River, heavily polluted by the largest Brazilian city (São Paulo), has significant ecological and socioeconomic importance. The effects of water-quality degradation on zooplankton diversity (taxonomic and functional) and limnological variab...
The high-rate biological contactor (HRBC) is an enhanced-primary, biosorption-based, carbon-diversion wastewater treatment process with short hydraulic retention time (HRT), short solids retention time (SRT), low dissolved oxygen (DO), and high food-...
The algae-based landfill leachate (LL) treatment system has been proved promising for nutrient recycling and biomass production at lab- or small-scale photobioreactors (PBRs). However, many assessment tools such as techno-economic analyses (TEAs) usu...
In inland river basins, the coupling relationship among water, sediment, and phosphorus is essentially the redistribution of phosphorus carried in the river system, and the presence of plants affects its transport and distribution. Meanwhile, fish ar...
Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization, urban sewer networks face increasing challenges, including infrastructure deterioration and imbalanced resource allocation. Conventional single-dimensional risk assessment methods fail to capture the coordi...
Azo dyes are a major cause of environmental pollution, but under lab-based conditions can be removed using a coupled adsorption and electrochemical oxidation process; the Nyex Rosalox™ (NR) process. However, wastewater effluents are more complex than...
A pilot-scale moving-bed biofilm reactor (MBBR), operated under alternating intermittent aeration (IA) and non-aeration phases, was used for single-stage carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) removal from high-fluctuating municipal wastewater via simultaneous...
This study investigates tide–surge nonlinear interactions along the southeastern coast of China (SCC) using Typhoon Winnie as a case study. A coupled tide–surge model is established based on the Finite-Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM)...
Little is known about the vertical distribution of microplastics (MPs) in deep stratified lakes. This study investigates the MPs in the large and deep Lake Trichonis during the thermal stratification period, using two nets of different porosity (50 &...
Microplastics (MPs) are increasingly recognized as pervasive co-contaminants in aquatic environments, yet their impacts on advanced oxidation processes remain poorly understood. Herein, we systematically investigate the role of representative MPs in...
Quantifying the impact of land use changes on the threat of flash-floods is a critical consideration in flood hazard planning and risk reduction, and is an area of active research. Here, a coupled Weather Research and Forecasting model hydrological e...
High-resolution, long-term gridded meteorological datasets from in situ observations are crucial for ecosystem monitoring, soil diagnostics, hydrological modelling, and Earth system model evaluation. This study presents two enhanced real-time adaptat...
Compact low-pressure emitters (LPEs) can improve the affordability of drip irrigation, but they must also demonstrate clog resistance for long-term reliability and adoption. Recent research on LPEs has focused on their hydraulic modeling and characte...
Monitoring inland surface water quality is essential for water security, ecosystem conservation, public health, and sustainable water resource management. Although in situ measurements remain indispensable, they are often limited by high costs, restr...
In the Arabian Gulf region, saltwater desalination is considered to be a significant process in producing clean water. This paper presents a sustainable, combined process for upgrading a Doha reverse osmosis (RO) plant in Kuwait. A pilot-scale microb...
Investments in urban water supply should be informed by resilience management frameworks that consider traditional reliability requirements, community preparedness during system disruptions, and sustainability goals in long-term planning. Grounded in...
Shallow eutrophic lakes recover from nutrient loading on time scales ranging from less than one year to many decades, yet whether this range is set by the lake or by the biological response group has rarely been quantified within a single monitoring...
Background: Pump unit vibration signals are typically characterized by non-stationarity and nonlinearity, which makes direct extraction of fault-related information from raw one-dimensional signals difficult, especially under small-sample conditions....
Denil fishways exhibit limited passage efficiency for weak-swimming and benthic species, partly due to severe near-bed hydrodynamics generated by the sharp V-notch apex of conventional baffles. Modifying bottom geometry is a promising optimization pa...
The ecological consequences of hydraulic engineering on riverine environments have intensified the need for scientifically grounded ecological flow regimes. To ensure habitat suitability during critical fish spawning periods, this study developed hab...
This study investigated the spatial distribution, seasonal variation, and drivers of surface seawater alkalinity (Alk) in Zhanjiang Bay (ZJB) using high-frequency seasonal sampling in the summers and winters of 2023. Surface Alk ranged from 525.3 to...
The environmental impacts of treated acid mine drainage on receiving river systems remain insufficiently understood. This study investigated four typical closed coal mines in northern Sichuan Province, China, by analyzing heavy metals, sulfate, pH, U...
Vegetation change in cryosphere-affected mountain basins reflects interacting climate and human pressures but their relative influence remains uncertain in the Upper Indus Basin. The novelty of this study is the integration of satellite vegetation, c...
To support refined water quality evaluation and short-term early warning in multi-section river systems, this study developed three percentile-based composite indices: the Water Quality Index (WQI), the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to...
Slug test interpretation can fail when measured recovery follows a time scale that differs from the classical Cooper–Bredehoeft–Papadopulos (CBP) finite-diameter well solution. This study derives a conformable slug test formulation by sho...
Mountain stream ecosystems are often considered among the least disturbed freshwater environments; however, increasing land-use pressures may affect their ecological integrity even under apparently high-water quality conditions. This study aimed to a...
To investigate the interaction between artificial intelligence development (AID) and water–energy–food system technical efficiency (WEF-TE), panel data from 264 cities in China from 2013 to 2023 were utilized, and WEF-TE in the study area...
This study proposes an experimental data-driven hybrid prediction framework for hydraulic turbine performance using a Particle Swarm Optimization-enhanced Extreme Learning Machine (PSO-ELM). The performance of three hydraulic turbines, namely Pelton,...
Deep excavation dewatering is an energy-intensive groundwater control process in underground engineering, especially under strong recharge and heterogeneous hydrogeological conditions. Conventional dewatering designs often rely on conservative pumpin...
This study investigates the hydroclimatic impacts of climate change on the Göynük Stream Basin, a snow-fed tributary within the Euphrates River Basin, utilizing flow, precipitation, and temperature data from 1975 to 2022. The Göynü...
This study portrays macroalgal assemblage structure in the transitional water system Mar Piccolo of Taranto (eLTER site) from 2012 to 2023, assessing the impact of the establishment of non-indigenous species (NIS). Seasonal sampling at three sites ev...
This study explores the case of the Wuhan East Lake National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone (East Lake High-Tech Zone), investigating an advanced-scale stormwater and sewage co-treatment system alongside a “low-position, differentiat...
In arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater plays an important ecohydrological role in sustaining ecosystem stability under climate-warming-induced surface-water uncertainty. Disentangling precipitation and groundwater recharge effects on vegetation g...
Water resources safety is a crucial prerequisite for nuclear power development and a key component of the safety system for inland nuclear power. Based on an analysis of the influencing factors of water resources safety during the site selection stag...
Small and medium-sized (SMS) lakes in cold–arid regions are highly sensitive to climate change and play critical roles in regional hydrological and ecological processes. However, their long-term dynamic evolution along aridity–humidity gr...
To investigate the relationship between fishery resources community structure (mainly fish and crustaceans) and environmental factors in the artificial reef waters off Nanri Island, surveys were conducted in November 2021, 2022, and 2023. Shannon&nda...
The beneficial utilization of small and medium floods requires a clear flood-control safety boundary before floodwater can be moderately stored and regulated as a water resource. For the Three Gorges Reservoir, a large river-type reservoir with long-...
Aquaculture in the Amazon region has considerable potential to promote the sustainable use of natural resources. The integration of fish farming and forest has emerged as a resource-efficient strategy for sustainable production. This study aimed to e...
Accurate quantification of riprap volume is critical for cost control, quality assurance, and navigation safety in inland waterway maintenance projects. Conventional methods, such as draft mark reading and RTK-based point surveying, are constrained b...
The global transition to a diversified renewable energy portfolio requires reliable assessment of predictable marine energy resources. This study develops a high-resolution, three-dimensional Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) to quantitatively ev...
Partial nitrification (PN) is a promising strategy for reducing aeration demand and improving the energy efficiency of biological nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment. However, maintaining stable PN in continuous-flow activated sludge reactors re...
In this study, we aim to propose a framework for developing a smart model for estimating hourly based storm patterns subject to daily storm patterns, titled the SM_ESP_HRDY model; here, a storm pattern comprises a set of cumulative dimensionless rain...
Efficient irrigation management requires reliable information on soil water content, yet low-cost capacitive sensors often lack proper calibration. This study evaluates the metrological performance of two DF Robot probes, SEN0193 (S1) and SEN0308 (S3...
Using monthly and daily reanalysis data from the NCEP/NCAR and ERA-5 spanning 1980 to 2025, this study investigates the key preceding forcing factors influencing winter temperatures in the Bohai Sea and northern Yellow Sea (BSNYS) region. The analysi...
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