2026 May-1 - 123 articles
With the gradual implementation of the RCEP agreement, China’s service sector market has opened up further. According to statistics from the OECD database, in 2023, China’s service imports from other RCEP member states accounted for appro...
The mechanical performance of concrete cutoff walls in deep overburden is decisive for dam safety. Current coarse mesh models struggle to accurately simulate their response under complex conditions. In this paper, a refined numerical model is establi...
Digital elevation models (DEMs) are key fundamental inputs in hydrological modelling, yet the influence of spatial resolution on basin delineation and process representation remains insufficiently understood, particularly in small catchments. This st...
The objective of this study was to assess and model the condition and resilience of the Cunas River using integrated indices and multivariate statistics in order to determine the impact of anthropogenic pressure and enhance water security in the Peru...
Large wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are increasingly supplemented with quaternary treatment. Classical monitoring hereby relies mostly on the measurement of oxygen demand, micropollutants and the nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen. From a microbi...
Given that flood disasters often occur in areas without sufficient instrumentation, conventional observation networks alone may be inadequate to capture the actual evolution of flood events. However, video content from diverse sources such as smartph...
Coastal zones are sensitive areas where marine and terrestrial systems interact. Seawater intrusion, a typical coastal geological hazard, poses a serious threat to groundwater resources. This study takes the northeastern coastal zone of Laizhou Bay,...
Water resources serve as a rigid constraint for urban sustainable development, yet existing studies still lack sufficient understanding of the decoupling effect and its nonlinear mechanism in urban water resource utilization. This study comprehensive...
As critical conduits for pollutant enrichment and transformation, lake inlets govern the biogeochemical cycling of emerging contaminants. This study investigated the occurrence, spatiotemporal heterogeneity, and source–sink dynamics of 15 organ...
This study proposes a quantitative identification method for drought–flood abrupt alternation (DFAA) events in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) based on the daily standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) data from 1982 to 2021 and...
Relief is an important driver in the spatial differentiation of river runoff and its regime both in the mountains and on the plains, which is most evident in arid and semi-arid regions of the Earth’s land. Based on 22 small and medium-sized riv...
Thermal water-supplied swimming pools are increasingly used worldwide for recreation, wellness, and therapeutic purposes, yet their management poses specific challenges due to the complex physicochemical properties of thermal and mineral waters and t...
Low-temperature stress severely restricts the engineering application of anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox) technology in municipal mainstream wastewater treatment, leading to its slower large-scale implementation relative to industrial wastewater...
While national agencies increasingly adopt ‘sustainable’ rhetoric, their policies frequently prioritize bureaucratic legitimacy over local landscape realities. This research examines how Thailand’s development policies shape water a...
This study examines the association between tourism intensity, the free movement of people, and water quality outcomes across the European Union (EU-27) over the period 2012–2024. By integrating open-access datasets from Eurostat, the European...
The use of biotechnology in water and wastewater treatment has been advancing rapidly in recent years, offering innovative solutions to urgent environmental challenges [...]
Mountain regions are highly climate-sensitive, yet long-term observational evidence of elevation and seasonal climate dynamics in Central Asia remains limited. This study examines spatiotemporal trends in temperature (Tmean, Tmax, Tmin, and diurnal t...
Coastal bottom dissolved oxygen (DO) depletion poses a serious threat to marine ecosystems and aquaculture, and hypoxic events in the semi-enclosed Jinhae Bay, Korea, repeatedly cause large-scale damage to fish farms. Accurate DO prediction models ar...
Framed within data-centric artificial intelligence, this study integrates statistics, geotechnologies and AI to improve water quality prediction. The primary objective was to identify the minimum sample size required to train robust and accurate mach...
Hydrodynamic efficiency in wetland systems is governed by the complex interaction between fluid flow and vegetation density. This study quantifies the impact of seasonal emergent vegetation growth on solute transport in a V-shaped flume. Using high-r...
Permeable pavements are increasingly integrated into urban environments as sustainable systems that enhance stormwater infiltration, mitigate runoff, and contribute to pollutant control. However, long-term accumulation of contaminants within their po...
Despite the widespread perception of Chilean Patagonia as water-abundant, the region exhibits marked climatic and landscape heterogeneity. This study evaluates relative water availability across Coyhaique Province (12,712 km2), where projections indi...
Across Africa, drought seldom occurs alone. Rainfall deficits often coincide with heat, rapid soil moisture loss and reduced streamflow, producing compound events whose impacts exceed those of any single driver. This review synthesises station observ...
The primary aim of this study is to identify the driving mechanisms behind long-term water-level changes and drought–flood transitions in Dongting Lake. To achieve this, we employed methods including the Improved Standardized Water Level Index...
Accurate simulation of karst spring discharge is critical for sustainable water resource management, yet it remains a significant challenge due to the inherent complexity, heterogeneity, and non-linearity of karst systems. While machine learning mode...
The removal of excessive amounts of antibiotics from water systems is of great benefit due to their adverse effects on the ecosystems, living organisms and the persistent increase in antibiotic resistance cases. This study was focused on the adsorpti...
This study develops an intelligent multi-indicator collaborative approach to improve coal seam roof water inrush warnings. A multidimensional dataset is constructed using microseismic data, borehole water levels, electrical measurements, and daily wa...
In the deep and narrow valleys of southwestern China, free-surface spillways are widely adopted as auxiliary flood-discharge structures in water conservancy projects. Owing to the high water head upstream, tunnels are often plagued by problems includ...
Transboundary river basins (TRBs) sustain billions of livelihoods, yet they face enduring systemic challenges of cooperative water governance. Although collaborative governance models consistently yield acceptable outcomes, adversarial dynamics and z...
This study advances research on river extreme events by applying the peaks-over-threshold (POT) approach to Lithuanian rivers. Extreme flow regimes were analysed for three rivers representing distinct hydrological regions and one large river. Results...
Surface water quality, serving as a key link between domestic water use and agricultural production, impacts both the drinking water safety of local residents and the sustainable use of irrigated soil. To better protect water resources and enhance th...
Climate change poses significant challenges to the operation and safety of dam and reservoir (D&R) systems, particularly in regions characterized by water scarcity and high climate variability. This study presents a structured methodology for cli...
This article assesses the potential for intra-day redistribution of the electrical load of water intake systems under different electricity tariff models, using water supply systems in Belarus and China as case studies. It demonstrates how tariff pol...
The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna (GBM) delta is one of the most densely populated and flood-prone regions in the world. Identifying the exposure patterns of settlement expansion under different flood hazard levels in the GBM delta is of sign...
Quantifying glacier contributions to river discharge is challenging because many land surface models (LSMs) lack glacier processes, whereas standalone glacier models are often disconnected from catchment hydrology. Here we develop the Conjunctive Sur...
Leakage flow interferes with the main flow movement and has a close relationship with the rotational stall phenomenon. To study the rotational stall characteristics of mixed-flow pumps under different tip clearances (rim clearances), numerical simula...
Large, shallow lakes lacking rooted aquatic vegetation are susceptible to wind-induced wave action that results in increased shear stress on the lake bottom, sediment resuspension and poor water clarity. The relationship between meteorological, hydro...
Understanding the hydrochemical characteristics and formation mechanisms of rivers in the Huxi Catchment is essential for water resource conservation, as these rivers serve as the primary water source for Taihu Lake. A total of 14 surface water sampl...
Sunset Yellow is a water-soluble synthetic dye resistant to degradation and stable under various conditions, posing an environmental challenge. In the present study pure chitosan hydrogel (PCH) films were synthesized, followed by the assessment of so...
Stochastic inputs are essential for incorporating hydrological variability in water resources assessment, planning, and management. However, most studies focus on the generation of precipitation and temperature, precipitation and streamflow, and prec...
The aim of this study is to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the water quality of the Sidi Mohammed Ben Taiba (SMBT), one of the largest drinking water reservoirs in northwestern Algeria, by integrating chemical and biological indicators. The as...
Deammonification, which is based on partial nitritation and anammox (PN/A), is a well-established sidestream treatment for nitrogen removal. However, transferring deammonification to mainstream wastewater treatment remains challenging due to low temp...
This study comparatively assesses the Municipal Emission Reduction Plans (MERPs) of Spetses, Platanias, and Souli, examining their role as analytical and strategic tools for local climate planning, with particular emphasis on water-related infrastruc...
Oil-contaminated wastewater generated in oil-producing regions requires effective treatment methods capable of degrading persistent petroleum hydrocarbons and reducing the overall organic load. This study investigated plasma–ozone treatment of...
The Yanshangou landslide, located in the Baihetan Reservoir area, poses severe potential threats to the normal operation of the reservoir due to its distinct deformation characteristics and high sensitivity to reservoir water level fluctuations. This...
Mercury ions (Hg2+), a heavy metal contaminant of strong biotoxicity, pose a serious threat to ecosystems and human health in aquatic environments. Developing highly sensitive and specific detection methods is therefore of great importance. This stud...
Investigating soil seepage considering free surface conditions under complex geological conditions is of great significance to ensure the safety of dams. In recent years, physics-informed deep learning (PINN) has become a cross-disciplinary hotspot f...
Accurate estimation of crop development, water use and yield is essential for improving irrigation management in Mediterranean agricultural systems under increasing climate variability. However, many crop models require extensive input data and techn...
Urban cities have been intensely prone to floods during extreme rainfall events and water scarcity issues during dry periods in recent years. In this context, identifying rainwater harvesting potential (RWHP) regions in urban environments provides a...
We examined changes in water temperature in relation to air temperature in the two upper, two middle and lower reaches of the Han River basin, Republic of Korea. Air and water temperatures were monitored from 2020 to 2025, with analyses restricted to...
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