2026 February-2 - 89 articles
Under the new water control philosophy, reclaimed water utilization is an important strategic measure to increase water supply and reduce water environmental pollution. This has important implications for addressing the water crisis in urban developm...
Land subsidence induced by excessive groundwater abstraction has emerged as a major geo-environmental hazard in arid oasis regions, calling for reproducible methods to quantitatively assess the abstraction-reduction–subsidence response and to s...
Resonant Wave Energy Converter 1 (REWEC1) is a submerged caisson breakwater integrating a device designed to absorb incoming wave energy. Although the wave energy-extraction performance of this system and its hydraulic characteristics have been exten...
The spread of antibiotic resistance is contributing to 4.95 million cases of mortality per year, and it is categorised as one of the top three threats to public health in modern society, threatening the ability to treat common infections. Wastewater...
Hooked-head spur dikes are a specialized type of spur dike, where their geometry significantly influences flow diversion, sediment transport, and bank protection. This study establishes a three-dimensional numerical model utilizing the renormalizatio...
The forestry extractivist model has systematically transgressed and violated Mapuche territories, thereby generating tensions, crises, and socioenvironmental injustices. The following objectives were proposed: (a) Unveil the implications of forestry...
Gold mining in South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin represents a critical case study of mining-induced environmental degradation affecting interconnected ecological and human systems. While the cascading effects of acid mine drainage (AMD), origi...
Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) are critical infrastructure for delivering clean and safe drinking water. As modern WDNs increasingly integrate cyber technologies, they evolve into complex cyber–physical systems (CPSs). This connectivity, ho...
The Prespa Lakes system, shared between Greece, the Republic of North Macedonia, and Albania, forms a significant transboundary, large-scale integrated freshwater ecosystem subject to multiple anthropogenic and natural pressures. This study focuses o...
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are commonly detected in airport stormwater runoff due to historical and ongoing use of aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs). Conventional stormwater control measures (SCMs) are generally effective at removin...
Notably, one of the key points to address low accuracy and delayed responsiveness of dam deformation prediction models lies in the timely detection of the outliers caused by environmental disturbances, sensor failures, or operational anomalies of dam...
Legionella species are ubiquitous bacteria found worldwide in water, moist environments, soils, and compost. Infection occurs through the inhalation of aerosols, leading to either Pontiac fever or Legionnaires’ disease (LD). Current routine dia...
Decentralized graywater treatment using nature-based systems represents a sustainable, low-energy alternative to centralized wastewater technologies, particularly in water-scarce regions. This study evaluates the performance of a rain-garden-based co...
Old urban areas are often prone to waterlogging and sewage contamination owing to their haphazard spatial arrangements, extensive impervious surfaces, and insufficient drainage infrastructure, thereby posing significant risks to both public safety an...
Water distribution systems (WDSs) are vital components of public infrastructure, ensuring the safe supply of drinking water. However, they are increasingly exposed to technical failures, contamination events, natural disasters, and cyberattacks. This...
Chronic consumption of groundwater arsenic is a well-known risk factor for many cancers, notably lung, bladder, kidney and skin cancers, and is recognized as such in many countries, notably India. Indeed, increasing cancer incidence and mortality in...
Cyanobacterial blooms are intensifying globally under climate warming, eutrophication, and hydrological alteration, yet most mechanistic understanding derives from temperate lakes. Tropical and neotropical freshwaters operate under persistently warm...
Safe drinking water and microbial inactivation from surfaces and devices are among the World Health Organization’s priorities. Plasma-activated water (PAW) inactivates microorganisms mainly by producing radicals (hydroxyl radicals, superoxide,...
Microplastic (MP) pollution poses a significant and emerging threat to global marine ecosystems; however, regional data for the Caribbean remain limited. This study presents a spatial and temporal characterization of MPs in surface and mid-waters of...
Climate change exerts a pronounced influence on streamflow regimes by altering precipitation characteristics and potential evapotranspiration, thereby affecting global water availability and hydrological functioning. This study investigates the hydro...
This study evaluates the efficiency of several urban wastewater treatment configurations in reducing suspended solids (TSSs) and organic pollutants (BOD5 and COD) under Montenegrin conditions. The systems tested include combinations of primary treatm...
Toppling failure is a fundamental mode of instability in rock slopes and occurs predominantly in reservoir bank anti-dip bedded rock masses. Reservoir impoundment changes seepage conditions and weakens slopes, whereas discontinuity non-persistence in...
Wine processing industries require a substantial amount of water and generate considerable volumes of wastewater. Winery wastewater (WWW) is notable for its high concentrations of biodegradable organic matter, while containing relatively low levels o...
Due to its advantages in specific surface area and oxygen-containing functional groups, biochar was often utilized for water pollution control. In this study, biochar was prepared from three types of wetland plants—Lotus Leaf, Arundo donax L.,...
Recent laboratory experiments in an intermediate-scale Hele-Shaw cell, designed to represent a coarse sand aquifer, demonstrate that mixing-induced calcite precipitation leads to the formation of a self-organized, heterogeneous porous medium. This mo...
Ibuprofen (IBU), paracetamol (PARA), and diclofenac (DIC) are three of the most used non-opioid analgesics and are most frequently detected in the environment. Some methods to analyze these compounds in water have been previously reported, but they h...
A floating surface skimmer is a device that regulates dewatering in a sediment basin. Skimmers decant from the top of the water column, allowing for greater capture of suspended sediment. Skimmer dewatering rates depend on design and vary by manufact...
Climate variability threatens smallholder maize production in semi-arid Southern Africa, necessitating accurate irrigation management. We developed an Earth Observation–machine learning framework integrating Sentinel-1 SAR, TU Wien retrievals,...
In Türkiye, where agriculture consumes 75% of available water and national irrigation efficiency is only 51.3%, irrigation modernization—the conversion of classical open-channel irrigation systems to pressurized pipe systems—presents...
Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, plays an important indicator in monitoring trophic states of inland waters. This study proposes a comprehensive framework that utilizes two convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for AC (ConvNet...
Phytoplankton are key indicators of water quality and low-cost tools for freshwater monitoring, yet their diversity and ecological drivers remain poorly documented in the Tropical Andes. This study provides the first national-scale, multi-ecosystem a...
Driving rain or ‘wind-driven rain’ (WDR) arrives at the ground on an oblique trajectory, and drops may strike at a speed greater than their still-air terminal velocity. Oblique rain can affect a range of geomorphic processes including the...
Nitrate and Escherichia coli (E. coli) are two common pollutants present in dairy cattle drinking water troughs. At elevated levels, both pollutants can be of immediate health concern, but longer-term exposure to these pollutants at higher levels can...
Understanding the behavior of water under moderate but technologically relevant high-voltage electric fields is important for biological systems, water-treatment technologies, and interfacial phenomena. Here, we investigate pure water exposed to non-...
This study analyzed the hydroclimatic functioning of the Lake Fitri basin (Chad) by combining rainfall records, in situ hydrological observations, water balance analysis, and spatial remote sensing data. Results show a strong Sahelian climatic contro...
Neonicotinoid pesticides are persistent in aquatic environments, posing ecological risks. To address the limited removal efficiency of conventional soil infiltration systems, this study developed an electrochemically enhanced modular ecological infil...
With the increasing depletion of shallow resources, marine-based mineral resources in coastal and continental shelf areas are poised to become a new frontier for resource development. However, ions in brine solutions undergo complex water-rock intera...
The Three-River Connectivity Zone in the lower Tarim River Basin (TRCZ) is a typical area that has experienced decades of river cut-off, followed by artificial ecological water transfers and vegetation restoration. However, the long-term patterns of...
Water scarcity and soil salinization are major challenges for sustainable agriculture in arid regions, affecting crop growth, yield, and quality. In greenhouse systems, optimizing irrigation and nutrient management under brackish (slightly to moderat...
As urbanization expands, the loss of pervious surfaces has led to greater stormwater runoff and contributed to an increase in urban flooding—localized flooding in areas not formally designated as flood zones. This study evaluates the potential...
The release of phosphorus (P) from littoral wetland sediments drives eutrophication, with iron (Fe) and sulfur (S) cycles playing key regulatory roles. This study investigated the Tongyang River corridor wetland (Lake Chaohu) in China to elucidate P&...
Large-scale river modeling has transitioned toward vector-based routing, yet the global fidelity of standalone frameworks like mizuRoute remains poorly characterized due to fragmented observation networks and unquantified systematic biases. This stud...
The initiation of debris flows in mountainous areas is dynamically influenced by multiple factors, including rainfall intensity, duration, and antecedent rainfall conditions. Traditional static threshold methods struggle to adapt to these dynamic env...
The rapid expansion of impervious surfaces in urban environments has significantly increased surface runoff and flood risk. Detention basins, implemented as part of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs), are widely adopted worldwide to control p...
Desalination is an increasingly important element in the sustainable supply of potable water. To accurately predict costs, the efficiency of such systems requires accurate knowledge of seawater’s thermodynamic properties. Four models have been...
Under dynamic loading (e.g., earthquakes, extreme rainfall), multi-stage slope slumps occur as downstream slopes lose anti-sliding stability, triggering intensive lateral sediment supply that governs mountainous channel evolution. This study uses a c...
This study examines the historical relationship between water management and epidemic diseases in the Region of Murcia (Southeast Spain) between the 16th and 19th centuries. It focuses on two major pathologies—yellow fever and cholera—whi...
Despite reductions in sulphur and nitrogen emissions, lakes and streams in Europe and North America have shown only partial recovery from acidification. This study aims to assess the chemical and biological recovery of the upper stretch of the Litavk...
Understanding the differences in the infiltration processes of soda saline–alkali soils with varying degrees of salinization and their underlying mechanisms is of great significance for the rational use of regional soil and water resources. Thi...
Climate change results in reservoir management challenges, especially in areas with a high risk of drought and flooding. Traditional reservoir rule curves are insufficient for addressing variations in reservoir inflow. This study presents a framework...
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