Water, 7(9) - September 2015: Special Issues + GW + River Hydraulics + ET + Land Use + More! (Open Access)

Now available! Water, Volume 7, Issue 9 (September 2015), Pages 4593-5202

All articles are freely downloadable. If you cannot download the articles here, visit the issue's WWW site.

Special Issues. You'll note there are several 'Special Issues' in this issue, some with just one or a few papers and some of which have appeared before. Water has many special issues in progress at any given time. What happens is that when a special issue paper is accepted, it immediately goes into the next online issue of Water. If you click on the special issue title, it should take you to all the current papers in that special issue. 

Enjoy!

Table of Contents

 

Special Issue Water Resource Variability and Climate Change

Article: Farmers’ Perceptions about Adaptation Practices to Climate Change and Barriers to Adaptation: A Micro-Level Study in Ghana
by Francis Ndamani and Tsunemi Watanabe
Water 2015, 7(9), 4593-4604; doi:10.3390/w7094593

 

Special Issue Rainwater Harvesting: Quantity, Quality, Economics and State Regulations

Article: Estimating the Rainwater Potential per Household in an Urban Area: Case Study in Central Mexico
by Liliana Lizárraga-Mendiola, Gabriela Vázquez-Rodríguez, Alberto Blanco-Piñón, Yamile Rangel-Martínez and María González-Sandoval
Water 2015, 7(9), 4622-4637; doi:10.3390/w7094622

Article: Optimal Spatial Design of Capacity and Quantity of Rainwater Harvesting Systems for Urban Flood Mitigation
by Chien-Lin Huang, Nien-Sheng Hsu, Chih-Chiang Wei and Wei-Jiun Luo
Water 2015, 7(9), 5173-5202; doi:10.3390/w7095173

 

Special Issue Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Large Asian River Basins

Article: Water Security in the Syr Darya Basin
by Kai Wegerich, Daniel Van Rooijen, Ilkhom Soliev and Nozilakhon Mukhamedova
Water 2015, 7(9), 4657-4684; doi:10.3390/w7094657

Article: Sharing Benefits in Transboundary Rivers: An Experimental Case Study of Central Asian Water-Energy-Agriculture Nexus
by Shokhrukh-Mirzo Jalilov, Olli Varis and Marko Keskinen
Water 2015, 7(9), 4778-4805; doi:10.3390/w7094778

 

Special Issue Recent Advances in Riverflow Research

Article: Flow Patterns in an Open Channel Confluence with Increasingly Dominant Tributary Inflow
by Laurent Schindfessel, Stéphan Creëlle and Tom De Mulder
Water 2015, 7(9), 4724-4751; doi:10.3390/w7094724

Article: Integrated River and Coastal Flow, Sediment and  Escherichia coli Modelling for Bathing Water Quality
by Guoxian Huang, Roger A. Falconer and Binliang Lin
Water 2015, 7(9), 4752-4777; doi:10.3390/w7094752

Article: Secondary Currents and Turbulence over a Non-Uniformly Roughened Open-Channel Bed
by Thorsten Stoesser, Richard McSherry and Bruno Fraga
Water 2015, 7(9), 4896-4913; doi:10.3390/w7094896

Article: Dynamic Lift on an Artificial Static Armor Layer During Highly Unsteady Open Channel Flow
by Stephan Mark Spiller, Nils Rüther and Heide Friedrich
Water 2015, 7(9), 4951-4970; doi:10.3390/w7094951

Article: Combining Field and Laboratory Measurements to Determine the Erosion Risk of Cohesive Sediments Best
by Markus Noack, Sabine U. Gerbersdorf, Gudrun Hillebrand and Silke Wieprecht
Water 2015, 7(9), 5061-5077; doi:10.3390/w7095061

 

Special Issue Use of Meta-Heuristic Techniques in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling

Article: Applying a Correlation Analysis Method to Long-Term Forecasting of Power Production at Small Hydropower Plants
by Gang Li, Chen-Xi Liu, Sheng-Li Liao and Chun-Tian Cheng
Water 2015, 7(9), 4806-4820; doi:10.3390/w7094806

 

Special Issue Study, Development and Management of Water in Volcanic Areas

Article: Reclaimed Water Use in Biofuel Production
by María del Pino Palacios-Diaz, Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón, Idaira Hernández Brito, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera and José Manuel Hernández-Moreno
Water 2015, 7(9), 4848-4857; doi:10.3390/w7094848

 

Special Issue Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Editorial: Wastewater Treatment and Reuse: Past, Present, and Future
by Andreas N. Angelakis and Shane A. Snyder
Water 2015, 7(9), 4887-4895; doi:10.3390/w7094887

 

Special Issue Hydrologic System Analysis, Patterns, and Predictions for Arid and Semi-arid Environment

Case Report: Flood-Runoff in Semi-Arid and Sub-Humid Regions, a Case Study: A Simulation of Jianghe Watershed in Northern China
by Hua Jin, Rui Liang, Yu Wang and Prasad Tumula
Water 2015, 7(9), 5155-5172; doi:10.3390/w7095155

 

Further Publications

Article: Improved Drinking Water Disinfection with UVC-LEDs for Escherichia Coli and Bacillus SubtilisUtilizing Quartz Tubes as Light Guide
by Andrej Gross, Felix Stangl, Katharina Hoenes, Michael Sift and Martin Hessling
Water 2015, 7(9), 4605-4621; doi:10.3390/w7094605

Article: A Multi-Scale Approach in Hydraulic Characterization of a Metamorphic Aquifer: What Can Be Inferred about the Groundwater Abstraction Possibilities
by Antonella Baiocchi, Walter Dragoni, Francesca Lotti, Simone M. Piacentini and Vincenzo Piscopo
Water 2015, 7(9), 4638-4656; doi:10.3390/w7094638

Article: Combined ICESat and CryoSat-2 Altimetry for Accessing Water Level Dynamics of Tibetan Lakes over 2003–2014
by Chunqiao Song, Qinghua Ye, Yongwei Sheng and Tongliang Gong
Water 2015, 7(9), 4685-4700; doi:10.3390/w7094685

Article: Pressure-Discharge Law of Local Tanks Connected to a Water Distribution Network: Experimental and Mathematical Results
by Mauro De Marchis, Barbara Milici and Gabriele Freni
Water 2015, 7(9), 4701-4723; doi:10.3390/w7094701

Article: Genetic Algorithm-Based Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Water Quality in Dongzhaigang
by Jiasheng Wen, Feng Li, Xiangyun Zeng, Kaixuan Shen, Haijun He, Yanyan Liang, Huayang Gan, Jinwei Zhang, Xiaolin Long and Yansha Wei
Water 2015, 7(9), 4821-4847; doi:10.3390/w7094821

Technical Note: A Web-Based Tool to Estimate Pollutant Loading Using LOADEST
by Youn Shik Park, Bernie A. Engel, Jane Frankenberger and Hasun Hwang
Water 2015, 7(9), 4858-4868; doi:10.3390/w7094858

Article: Impact Analysis of Lakefront Land Use Changes on Lake Area in Wuhan, China
by Jianfeng Zhu, Qiuwen Zhang and Zhong Tong
Water 2015, 7(9), 4869-4886; doi:10.3390/w7094869

 

Article: Evapotranspiration in the Nile Basin: Identifying Dynamics and Drivers, 2002–2011
by Henok Alemu, Armel T. Kaptué, Gabriel B. Senay, Michael C. Wimberly and Geoffrey M. Henebry
Water 2015, 7(9), 4914-4931; doi:10.3390/w7094914

Article: Pollutant Dispersion Modeling in Natural Streams Using the Transmission Line Matrix Method
by Safia Meddah, Abdelkader Saidane, Mohamed Hadjel and Omar Hireche
Water 2015, 7(9), 4932-4950; doi:10.3390/w7094932

Article: Territorial Vulnerability Assessment Supporting Risk Managing Coastal Areas Due to Tsunami Impact
by José Leandro Barros, Alexandre Oliveira Tavares, Angela Santos and André Fonte
Water 2015, 7(9), 4971-4998; doi:10.3390/w7094971

Article: Water Quality of Four Major Lakes in Mississippi, USA: Impacts on Human and Aquatic Ecosystem Health
by Padmanava Dash, Saurav Silwal, Julius O. Ikenga, James L. Pinckney, Zikri Arslan and Richard E. Lizotte
Water 2015, 7(9), 4999-5030; doi:10.3390/w7094999

Review: Evolution of Water Lifting Devices (Pumps) over the Centuries Worldwide
by Stavros I. Yannopoulos, Gerasimos Lyberatos, Nicolaos Theodossiou, Wang Li, Mohammad Valipour, Aldo Tamburrino and Andreas N. Angelakis
Water 2015, 7(9), 5031-5060; doi:10.3390/w7095031

Article: Controlling River Eutrophication under Conflicts of Interests—A GIS Modeling Approach
by Mark Honti
Water 2015, 7(9), 5078-5090; doi:10.3390/w7095078

Article: An Integrated Approach to Identify Water Resources for Human Consumption in an Area Affected by High Natural Arsenic Content
by Giovanna Armiento, Antonella Baiocchi, Carlo Cremisini, Cinzia Crovato, Francesca Lotti, Luca Lucentini, Maurizio Mazzuoli, Elisa Nardi, Vincenzo Piscopo, Marco Proposito and Enrico Veschetti
Water 2015, 7(9), 5091-5114; doi:10.3390/w7095091

Article: Hydraulic Jump and Energy Dissipation with Sluice Gate
by Youngkyu Kim, Gyewoon Choi, Hyoseon Park and Seongjoon Byeon
Water 2015, 7(9), 5115-5133; doi:10.3390/w7095115

Article: The Probability Density Evolution Method for Flood Frequency Analysis: A Case Study of the Nen River in China
by Xueni Wang, Jing Zhou and Leike Zhang
Water 2015, 7(9), 5134-5151; doi:10.3390/w7095134

Correction: Yaya-Beas, R.-E., et al. Helminth Egg Removal Capacity of UASB Reactors under Subtropical Conditions. Water 2015, 7, 2402–2421
by Rosa-Elena Yaya-Beas, Christian Ayala-Limaylla, Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld, Jules B. van Lier and Grietje Zeeman
Water 2015, 7(9), 5152-5154; doi:10.3390/w7095152

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