2026 July-2 - 121 articles
The Guanting Gorge section of the Yongding River features complex terrain and densely distributed hydraulic projects. Under extreme rainstorm conditions, flood disasters are highly likely to occur, triggering secondary disasters such as landslides, b...
Wastewater treatment remains a major challenge in rural and peri-urban areas, where conventional centralized infrastructure is often unavailable or insufficient. In this context, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have emerged as cost-effective and energy-...
Natural lithium-bearing brines are gaining strategic importance as an alternative to traditional hard-rock deposits. Approximately 78% of the identified global lithium resources are hosted in hydromineral environments, including continental brines, o...
Suspended solids (SS) and dissolved organic matter (DOM) in source water consume chlorine during disinfection, yet how this varies among SS fractions with different settling characteristics remains poorly understood. This study investigated chlorine...
The integrated governance reform of water resources, water environment, and water ecology (Three Water Integration, TWI) is essential for addressing complex ecological risks in river basins. However, existing studies lack an integrated digital-intell...
The scarcity of resources is a major challenge for the livability of cities and sustainable urbanization. This study explores the socioeconomic dimensions of water scarcity in four low-income neighborhoods of Amman, the capital of Jordan, using a qua...
Biochar has attracted increasing attention for aquatic pollution control, particularly due to its capacity to accelerate the rate-limiting steps of denitrification in wastewater treatment. While early research primarily focused on the adsorption capa...
Accurate streamflow prediction is an important part of disaster management, as forecasting flow rates is an indispensable element of early warning systems, yet it remains challenging due to the complexity and nonlinearity of climatic inputs. This stu...
Freshwater biodiversity is increasingly threatened by biological invasions, yet the ecological processes governing invasion establishment and subsequent dominance remain poorly understood. We investigated environmental, community, and functional dete...
The Mediterranean region faces severe water scarcity exacerbated by climate change. The reuse of treated industrial wastewater for industrial processes or agricultural irrigation offers a sustainable mitigation strategy, yet its implementation is hin...
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is increasingly used to monitor public health trends and chemical consumption by analyzing biomarkers in untreated wastewater. As a complementary approach to traditional epidemiological surveillance, WBE provides i...
Understanding how desert riparian vegetation responds to managed flow releases is essential for ecological restoration in arid inland river basins. This study examines vegetation dynamics and hydrological responses in the desert reach of the Hotan Ri...
This study evaluated a cost-effective UAV-based multi-sensor approach for characterizing river corridor conditions during and after moderate floods in two mountain river corridors in Northern Utah, USA: the Logan River and Blacksmith Fork River. Thes...
Mangrove sediments harbor complex bacterial communities that play critical roles in ecosystem functioning. In this study, we investigated the spatial patterns and environmental drivers of sediment bacterial communities across intertidal flats and veg...
The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (Delta) is a critical hub for California’s water supply and ecological health, necessitating rapid and accurate modeling for decision-support. This paper reviews three decades of machine learning (ML) appl...
Ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N) contamination in groundwater beneath chemical industrial parks exhibits extreme spatial heterogeneity, yet the comparative effectiveness of spatial prediction methods under such conditions remains poorly understood. At a ch...
Snow depth and persistence strongly influence ground–atmosphere energy exchange, meltwater input, and the thermal regime of rock glacier systems, yet high-resolution snow monitoring remains scarce in the Southern Carpathians. This study uses mu...
The Upper Blue Nile Basin contributes about 60% of the Nile River’s annual streamflow but faces severe sediment-related challenges driven by intense monsoonal erosion and reservoir siltation. Accurate estimation of suspended sediment concentrat...
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs) pose increasing ecological and public health risks in shallow lakes subject to nutrient enrichment and climate change. This research describes and evaluates a three-dimensional hydrodynamic ecological model...
A synergistic system integrating iron corrosion, chemical phosphorus removal, and biological nitrogen removal was established for advanced piggery tailwater treatment. Increasing NO3−–N concentration from 15 to 60 mg/L enhanced Fe2+ disso...
Rapidly varying downstream water levels induced by hydropower regulation and emergency shutdowns pose significant hydraulic challenges for safe vessel passage through ship-lift systems. This study investigates the hydraulic performance and navigation...
Chronic non-communicable diseases and persistent stress-related disorders are increasingly conceptualized as complex biopsychosocial conditions in which neuroimmune, autonomic, behavioral, and social processes interact, creating a need for integrativ...
Drainage solution reuse in soilless strawberry production can reduce nutrient-rich discharge, but adoption requires microbial control, hydraulic reliability, and manageable energy demand. This field study evaluated a photovoltaic (PV) assisted ultrav...
Global climate change significantly alters environmental and health dynamics, posing a major 21st-century public health threat. Diseases commonly transmitted through water and/or food (diarrhea, cholera, dysentery) are particularly sensitive to these...
To reveal the impacts of long-term coal mining on groundwater flow fields and the environment, the Jinjitan Coal Mine in Shaanxi Province, China, was selected as the study area. A systematic investigation on the evolution of flow fields and migration...
Rainfall-driven inlet clogging is a phenomenon where inlets of stormwater networks are covered with debris, fallen leaves, or trash flushed by street runoffs due to heavy rainfall. Surface runoffs are thus unable to enter sewer networks that are stil...
Urban sewer sediments represent an underexplored reservoir of recoverable organic resources, yet conventional disposal practices, landfilling and incineration perpetuate greenhouse gas emissions and irreversible carbon loss. This study establishes a...
To investigate the dynamic transmission of unsteady hydraulic excitation within pumped-storage units, this study presents a numerical investigation on the three-dimensional shafting vibrations of a pump-turbine based on a one-way transient fluid-stru...
During load rejection in pumped-storage power stations, the rotational speed of the pump-turbine increases abruptly. The consequent structural deterioration of the internal flow induces high-amplitude hydraulic excitations, posing a serious threat to...
The weir–flume combination facility is a type of river flow-measurement structure consisting of a flow weir and a Crump weir, designed to integrate flow measurement and upstream backwater regulation, while incorporating a central flume intended...
The economic viability of circular biorefineries is fundamentally constrained by the energetic and thermodynamic limits of conventional downstream processing. This critical review examines the paradigm shift toward electro-driven membrane separations...
Tropical–subtropical monsoon Asia faces pronounced hydroclimatic change under future warming, yet the regional patterns and emission scenario dependence of drought risk remain unclear. Using a 14-member CMIP6 multi-model ensemble from the NEX-G...
Surface water quality is critical to ecosystem health and sustainable development, yet conventional monitoring falls short of spatiotemporally continuous assessment. Remote sensing coupled with machine learning has become a powerful paradigm for larg...
Catchment characteristics significantly influence water composition in pristine mountain lakes, receiving similar atmospheric deposition. We analysed these relationships for 20 subalpine and alpine catchment–lake systems in the High Tatra Mountains (...
Lake eutrophication and water quality deterioration are increasingly jeopardizing both ecological integrity and human health. As a typical eutrophic shallow lake on plateaus, Yilong Lake currently faces the primary issue of excessive CODCr levels. Th...
The Black Sea is a semi-enclosed basin that has experienced significant environmental degradation driven by nutrient enrichment and pollution from insufficiently treated wastewater discharges. While previous reviews have focused primarily on ecologic...
To reveal the influence of water accumulation in open pits on the stability of boundary coal–rock pillars, this study investigates a boundary coal–rock pillar between an underground coal mine and an adjacent open pit in western China. Coa...
Reliable roof-water-inrush risk zoning in coal mines remains difficult under small-sample conditions because geological, hydrogeological, and mining-induced factors interact nonlinearly, and field labels are often derived from engineering evidence ra...
With intensifying mineral resource extraction, groundwater ingress in large cross-sectional intersection roadways near aquifers is becoming increasingly common. Disturbances from roadway excavation and mining may induce fractures connecting to aquife...
Climate change is expected to alter hydro-climatic conditions and water availability across Central Europe, with important implications for vegetation and land-use systems. This study assesses projected changes in climatic water balance (CWB), hydro-...
Records of recent past climate provide an essential window into understanding how changing climate influences environments and ecosystems such as lakes, which provide essential resources and services. Sediment carbon and nitrogen chemistry can offer...
The long-term release of heavy metals from inactive tailing ponds poses a persistent threat to groundwater quality, yet the effectiveness of commonly employed risk control measures—such as anti-seepage liners and chemical stabilization—re...
Freshwater resources constitute a fundamental component of coupled natural–human systems, underpinning ecosystem functioning, biogeochemical cycling, and socio-economic development. Anthropogenic climate change (i.e., climate change attributabl...
Geothermal energy is a low-carbon baseload renewable energy that plays a key role in global energy transition. Jinlun of Taitung is a region with high potential for geothermal energy. However, sustainable resource utilization requires a comprehensive...
Although water resources are very significant natural assets of protected areas, the increasingly intensive tourism development in national parks and nature reserves brings them under constant anthropogenic pressure. Therefore, the analysis of water...
Substantial declines in acidifying emissions across Europe have led to pronounced chemical recovery of Norwegian surface waters. In recent decades, however, changes in water chemistry have increasingly coincided with climate change, complicating the...
Amid rising global economic uncertainty and frequent external shocks, strengthening marine economic resilience has become a core priority for coastal nations to stabilize industrial supply chains and achieve sustainable marine development. China&rsqu...
Electrocoagulation (EC) is a promising technology for hypereutrophic wastewater treatment, yet reactor geometry, electrode passivation, and energy inefficiency remain key limitations. This study developed a graphene oxide–phosphomolybdate (GO–POM) co...
Quantitative probabilistic risk assessment of trace metal(loid)s in sediment is highly important for the protection and management of aquatic ecosystems. In this study, surface sediment from the Huaihe River (Anhui Province, China) was collected. In...
For many countries, the reclamation of coastal saline–alkali land is of great significance for ensuring food security. However, systematic research on the effects of leaching irrigation and biochar application on the “soil–crop&rdqu...
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