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Water, Volume 9, Issue 8

August 2017 - 73 articles

Cover Story: Excess sediment continues to be a major polluter of surface water with streambank erosion being a primary, but often ignored, contributor. Streambank erosion is a complex process that involves three primary mechanisms (subaerial processes, fluvial erosion, and mass wasting) and is driven by several soil properties that are spatially variable. Jet erosion tests (JETs) allow for in-situ determination of these parameters. In this research, JETs were completed at numerous sites along two streams in each the Illinois River and Fort Cobb Reservoir watersheds in Oklahoma. The objectives were to use JET results from these streambank tests to investigate variability of erodibility parameters on the watershed scale and investigate longitudinal trends in streambank erodibility. The research also determined the impact of this variability on lateral retreat predicted by a process-based model. View this paper
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Articles (73)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,458 Views
14 Pages

22 August 2017

Obtaining reliable information on the wetting front depth of soil is beneficial to the understanding of one-dimensional (1D) vertical infiltration under border irrigation. This paper presents an approximate explicit solution to the Green-Ampt (GA) in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,932 Views
13 Pages

22 August 2017

Forecasting the industrial water demand accurately is crucial for sustainable water resource management. This study investigates industrial water demand forecasting by case-based reasoning (CBR) in an arid area, with a case study of Zhangye, China. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,012 Views
21 Pages

Effectiveness of Runoff Control Legislation and Active, Beautiful, Clean (ABC) Waters Design Features in Singapore

  • Xue Ping Goh,
  • Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan,
  • Chris Zevenbergen and
  • Assela Pathirana

22 August 2017

Storm water management in Singapore has always been a challenge due to intense rainfall in a flat, low-lying and urbanised catchment. PUB’s (Singapore’s National Water Agency) recent runoff control regulation limits the runoff coefficient to 0.55 for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,495 Views
14 Pages

22 August 2017

The Interconnected River System Network Project (IRSNP) is a significant water supply engineering project, which is capable of effectively utilizing flood resources to generate ecological value, by connecting 198 lakes and ponds in western Jilin, nor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,075 Views
23 Pages

Estimation of Suspended Sediment Loads Using Copula Functions

  • Nejc Bezak,
  • Simon Rusjan,
  • Marjeta Kramar Fijavž,
  • Matjaž Mikoš and
  • Mojca Šraj

22 August 2017

Suspended sediment load (SSL) observations are usually less frequent than precipitation and river discharge measurements; therefore a reliable procedure is needed for the estimation of SSL. One year of precipitation, SSL, and discharge measurements a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
11,636 Views
16 Pages

Estimation of Water Demand in Water Distribution Systems Using Particle Swarm Optimization

  • Lawrence K. Letting,
  • Yskandar Hamam and
  • Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

21 August 2017

Demand estimation in a water distribution network provides crucial data for monitoring and controlling systems. Because of budgetary and physical constraints, there is a need to estimate water demand from a limited number of sensor measurements. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,033 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2017

Water quality patterns in two adjacent embayments of the tidal freshwater Potomac River were compared using continuously monitored data. The two embayments, the tidal Occoquan and Gunston Cove, are shallow embayments fed by tributaries which vary in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
7,351 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2017

In this study, the major chemical compositions of 159 shallow groundwater samples incorporated saturation index (SI) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were employed to evaluate the mainly geochemical processes that control the hydrogeochemical e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,921 Views
18 Pages

20 August 2017

This paper presents an integrated method to obtain optimal market operation and regulation with the objective of reducing the market price and increasing the electricity consumption in hydro-dominated electricity markets, in which giant cascaded hydr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,219 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2017

This study aimed to compare the hydraulic characteristics of different vitalities of Populus euphratica to reveal the differences in their water use strategies and water consumption to provide useful data to scale water use of riparian poplar forests...

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