Water, Volume 18, Issue 6

The use of reclaimed water is a crucial strategy for water conservation. However, the quality of reclaimed water may induce corrosion in pipelines. Although UV (Ultraviolet) irradiation is a highly effective physical disinfection method that requires...

Effective water resource management requires understanding the causal mechanisms driving water quality dynamics, yet extracting actionable insights from complex multivariate monitoring data remains a persistent challenge. This study presents CEcBaN (...

The dynamics of the processes shaping the quality of rainwater discharged by sewer systems is very complex. The use of hydrodynamic models to simulate surface runoff and the dynamics of changes in pollutants, including heavy metal (HM) concentrations...

Accurately assessing dynamic water resource carrying capacity (WRCC) is essential and challenging, particularly in regions like the Gansu sections of the Yellow River Basin (GSYRB), a core water source protection zone in the arid northwest of China,...

Monitoring of stable isotopes in throughfall (δ¹⁸O, δ²H) and meteorological parameters is a valuable tool for researching forest hydrology, particularly during extreme events like droughts and floods. This study presents the first systema...

The widespread presence of antibiotic residues in aquatic environments poses severe ecological risks. While photocatalytic oxidation offers a promising, eco-friendly remediation technology, developing stable and high-efficiency photocatalysts remains...

This study evaluated the performance of a smart farming technology (SFT) and a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach for improving irrigation management in pecan (Carya illinoinensis) orchards in México through soil moisture monitoring, eva...

Solar radiation, longwave radiation, sensible heat flux, and latent heat flux constitute the primary forms of air–sea heat exchange, serving as crucial computational parameters in numerical simulations of thermal discharge. This study investiga...

Against the background of intensifying global climate change, extreme precipitation events have become increasingly frequent. Improving the accuracy of short-term precipitation nowcasting is therefore essential for disaster prevention and mitigation....

Climate change leads to less water in forest ecosystems and higher evapotranspiration during the growing season, increasing the risk of drought. This study evaluates microclimate and soil hydrology at two different sites in the Dobroč Primeval F...

Using perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as a representative highly mobile solute to isolate hydrological controls, we investigated how slope influences the partitioning of vertical and lateral transport pathways. While vertical percolation has been widel...

This study investigated the ecological selection and enrichment of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (AnAOB) driven by endogenous carbon cycling in a low-oxygen SBR biofilm system without external carbon addition. The system was operated using dr...

Surface water–groundwater interactions within oasis–desert ecotones of arid regions play a pivotal role in sustaining regional water security and ecological stability. Taking the Niya River Basin in Xinjiang, Northwest China, as a represe...

Sediment yield remains a major challenge in erosion-prone watersheds because it affects reservoir capacity, water quality, hydraulic infrastructure, and ecological stability. Although numerous studies have examined sediment yield estimation and sedim...

This study aimed to evaluate the process of formation, storage and reactivation of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) in real dyeing wastewater. An SBR was employed for the AGS operation, and the results showed that AGS could form in the SBR within 30 day...

Accurate and efficient analysis of embankment seepage is of vital importance for scientific assessment of embankment safety. Conventional numerical simulation techniques for embankment seepage analysis suffer from high computational cost and low effi...

Microbiological contamination of drinking water remains a significant public health concern worldwide, necessitating the development of efficient and environmentally friendly disinfection technologies. This study investigated the effectiveness and ph...

Many degraded streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been structurally modified over the last two decades in an effort to reduce nutrient and sediment loads from urban catchments and contribute to the pollutant reduction goals of the Chesapeake...

Riverine bridges are critical infrastructure that are increasingly exposed to severe hydrological hazards. This study proposes and validates a synergistic methodology for the assessment of riverine bridge resilience, integrating the conceptual 4R fra...

In this study, the contamination of two drinking water catchments in Australia by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) was investigated. PFASs in water and sediment were found at hazardous concentrations in waterways affected by transport accid...

The synergistic impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) transformations and weather pattern variabilities (WPV) represent a primary driver of hydro-geological instability, threatening agricultural productivity, soil conservation, and water quality. Dis...

In the western part of the United States, surface water rights follow the prior appropriation doctrine, while tribal water rights are governed by the reserved water rights doctrine. States and Tribal Nations share borders, but water knows no boundari...

Flood hazard mapping remains challenging in regions with limited hydrological and topographic data, despite increasing flood risk driven by climate change and land-use dynamics. This study aims to demonstrate that preliminary flood inundation maps ca...

Aquaponics (AP) is the combination of aquaculture and hydroponic systems, developed based on waste to wealth theory. This study compared the plant growth and overall productivity of an aquaponic system (AP) with a controlled hydroponic system (HP) to...

Accurate prediction of landslide run-out distance is fundamental to hazard mapping, emergency planning, and risk-informed engineering design. However, many data-driven studies implicitly treat landslides as a homogeneous population and provide limite...

Produced-water (PW) management in the Permian Basin faces tightening injection constraints, induced seismicity concerns, and volatile saltwater disposal (SWD) costs. At the same time, chemistry-rich PW contains dissolved constituents (e.g., Li, B, an...

Hypersaline culture media used for cultivation of Dunaliella salina represent complex multicomponent aqueous systems whose cooling–heating phase behavior remains insufficiently characterized. In this study, the thermal transitions of two biologically...

Sewerage systems are among the most fundamental and indispensable components of urban infrastructure. However, inadequate management can result in malfunctions and subsequent rehabilitation processes, leading to various negative consequences. Identif...

The combined impacts of urban pluvial flooding and traffic congestion can severely delay emergency response. However, existing studies often focus on isolated scenarios, failing to systematically quantify the reduction in overall service capability a...

Urban flood resilience is an important indicator for measuring a city’s capacity to respond to and recover from flood disasters. However, existing assessments often lack a long-term hydrological baseline. This study establishes the historical w...

Evaluating the aquatic ecological and environmental consequences of dredging projects with precision is essential for reconciling engineering objectives with the long-term health of aquatic ecosystems. This study establishes an evaluation system for...

Photosynthetic algae–microbial fuel cells (PAMFCs) are attractive for energy-positive wastewater treatment and carbon mitigation. However, PAMFC performance under continuous flow is often constrained by limited cathodic electron-acceptor supply...

Global agricultural drought is evolving into a compound crisis threatening food security and ecological stability that is characterized by increased frequency, intensity, duration, and spatial extent. Since 2000, the global number of drought events h...

Urban areas in Europe are increasingly challenged by water scarcity, climate variability, and pressure on municipal water systems. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) offers a decentralized, sustainable solution to reduce dependence on potable water, mitigate...

Against the backdrop of ongoing climate change, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, a region highly sensitive to climatic variation, exhibits intricate spatiotemporal patterns in reference crop evapotranspiration (ET_O), with significant implications for...

Ensuring the rights of involuntary resettlers is fundamental to a law-based state and essential for achieving social equity and sustainable development. However, institutional improvement depends not only on the intent of top-level design but also on...

Understanding how climate and land use interact to shape freshwater quality remains challenging across heterogeneous river basins. This study analysed monthly citizen-science measurements of nitrate (NO₃), phosphate (PO₄), and turbidity, collected be...

Freeze–thaw cycles frequently cause damage to canal slopes in cold regions, which has become a potential adverse factor leading to slope failure. This study investigates the coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behavior and stability evolution...

Maintaining high quality of water resources is essential to the physical health of mankind and sustainable development of society. Accordingly, it is necessary to detect anomalies in water quality variations, which may be caused by pollution. However...

Potential evapotranspiration (PET) and water balance (WB) are key indicators of hydroclimatic conditions and water availability, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. This study investigates the interannual variability, long-term trends, and ab...

Climate change is increasingly affecting groundwater resources in the Carpathian Basin, while rising temperatures are likely to increase irrigation demand and pressure on aquifers. We assessed climate- and pumping-driven impacts on the Nyírs&e...

Resource-based regions (RBRs) are vital to socio-economic development, yet intensive resource exploitation strains water, energy, and food (WEF) security and causes environmental stress. Optimizing collaborative management of the WEF nexus is crucial...

The beneficial reuse of reclaimed water is a legislative objective of the State of Florida and a critical element in the optimization of water management in areas facing scarcity of freshwater. Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) of reclaimed allows f...

The Jordan Valley is a heavily modified, data-limited transboundary river basin where water availability is constrained by both climate conditions and intensive human intervention. This study applies an integrated hydrological and hydrogeochemical mo...

This article presents the results of hydrological research on the Ruda River, which is the largest tributary of the Cetina River, located in the Dinaric karst of Croatia. The hydrology of this river has been altered after the construction of the Orlo...

The study evaluated the drinking water quality of Rouxville (RX) in Mohokare Local Municipality in the Free State, using chemical, physical, and microbiological parameters in comparison with South African National Standard 241 (SANS 241:2015). Drinki...

The strength of Xigeda strata decreases significantly upon contact with water, and the shear strength between sandstone and mudstone layers is lower than that within the individual layers. Therefore, the interlayer dip angle plays an important role i...

Under global climate change, frequent droughts threaten ecosystem functions, but how drought characteristics affect ecosystem resilience remains unclear. Focusing on the Dongjiang River Basin, China, we identified drought events at an 8-day scale fro...

Wastewaters from the food industry and domestic sources contain large amounts of ammonium, a major contributor to eutrophication. Recovering this nutrient for fertilizer use offers both environmental and agricultural benefits. Poplar chop-derived bio...

Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a crucial indicator for characterizing water quality and ecosystem status in freshwater lakes, and its concentration is closely correlated with the surrounding aquatic environment, particularly meteorological conditions. Howe...