Water, Volume 13, Issue 3 (February-1 2021): Hydrology, Hydraulics, Hydrodynamics & Hydrogeology; Wastewater Treatment & Reuse, Policy, Governance & Management; and More!

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Cover Story

Article: MAPKs and HSPs’ Activation of a Natural Daphnia magna Population in a Man-Perturbed Lake: Implications of Ecological Significance

Maria Demertzioglou, Efthimia Antonopoulou, Dimitra Voutsa, Argyri Kozari, Maria Moustaka-Gouni and Evangelia Michaloudi

Water 2021, 13(3), 283; doi:10.3390/w13030283

 

Featured Papers

Review: The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World’s Rivers: An Overview

Maria João Feio, Robert M. Hughes, Marcos Callisto, Susan J. Nichols, Oghenekaro N. Odume, Bernardo R. Quintella, Mathias Kuemmerlen, Francisca C. Aguiar, Salomé F.P. Almeida, Perla Alonso-EguíaLis, Francis O. Arimoro, Fiona J. Dyer, Jon S. Harding, Sukhwan Jang, Philip R. Kaufmann, Samhee Lee, Jianhua Li, Diego R. Macedo, Ana Mendes, Norman Mercado-Silva, Wendy Monk, Keigo Nakamura, George G. Ndiritu, Ralph Ogden, Michael Peat, Trefor B. Reynoldson, Blanca Rios-Touma, Pedro Segurado and Adam G. Yates

Water 2021, 13(3), 371; doi:10.3390/w13030371

Article: Evolution of Salinity and Water Table Level of the Phreatic Coastal Aquifer of the Emilia Romagna Region (Italy)

Beatrice Maria Sole Giambastiani, Assaye Kidanemariam, Addisu Dagnew and Marco Antonellini

Water 2021, 13(3), 372; doi:10.3390/w13030372

Article: Multi-Scale Target-Specified Sub-Model Approach for Fast Large-Scale High-Resolution 2D Urban Flood Modelling

Guohan Zhao, Thomas Balstrøm, Ole Mark and Marina B. Jensen

Water 2021, 13(3), 259; doi:10.3390/w13030259

Article: Water Lice and Other Macroinvertebrates in Drinking Water Pipes: Diversity, Abundance and Health Risk

Günter Gunkel, Ute Michels and Michael Scheideler

Water 2021, 13(3), 276; doi:10.3390/w13030276

Article: Flood Suspended Sediment Transport: Combined Modelling from Dilute to Hyper-Concentrated Flow

Jaan H. Pu, Joseph T. Wallwork, Md. Amir Khan, Manish Pandey, Hanif Pourshahbaz, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Prashanth R. Hanmaiahgari and Tim Gough

Water 2021, 13(3), 379; doi:10.3390/w13030379

Article: Multislot Fishway Improves Entrance Performance and Fish Transit Time over Vertical Slots

Filipe Romão, Ana L. Quaresma, José M. Santos, Susana D. Amaral, Paulo Branco and António N. Pinheiro

Water 2021, 13(3), 275; doi:10.3390/w13030275

Article: A Review of Recently Discovered Remains of the Pleistocene Branchiopods (Anostraca, Notostraca) from NE Siberia and Arctic Canada

D. Christopher Rogers, Anton A. Zharov, Anna N. Neretina, Svetlana A. Kuzmina and Alexey A. Kotov

Water 2021, 13(3), 280; doi:10.3390/w13030280

Article: Population Dynamics, Fishery, and Exploitation Status of Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) in Eastern Mediterranean

Alexios Lolas and Dimitris Vafidis

Water 2021, 13(3), 289; doi:10.3390/w13030289

 

General

Article: Comprehensive Evaluation of Water Resources Carrying Capacity in the Han River Basin

Lele Deng, Jiabo Yin, Jing Tian, Qianxun Li and Shenglian Guo

Water 2021, 13(3), 249; doi:10.3390/w13030249

Article: Baipenzhu Reservoir Inflow Flood Forecasting Based on a Distributed Hydrological Model

Shichao Xu, Yangbo Chen, Lixue Xing and Chuan Li

Water 2021, 13(3), 272; doi:10.3390/w13030272

Article: Surface and Groundwater Characteristics within a Semi-Arid Environment Using Hydrochemical and Remote Sensing Techniques

Abdellatif Rafik, Mohammed Bahir, Abdelaziz Beljadid, Driss Ouazar, Abdelghani Chehbouni, Driss Dhiba and Salah Ouhamdouch

Water 2021, 13(3), 277; doi:10.3390/w13030277

Article: Temporal Temperature Distribution in Shallow Sediments of a Large Shallow Lake and Estimated Hyporheic Flux Using VFLUX 2 Model

Yong Li, Na Li, Jiacheng Feng, Jianing Qian and Yajie Shan

Water 2021, 13(3), 300; doi:10.3390/w13030300

Article: Study of the Influence of Temperature on Boron Concentration Estimation in Desalinated Seawater for Agricultural Irrigation

David Escarabajal-Henarejos, Dolores Parras-Burgos, Laura Ávila-Dávila, Francisco Javier Cánovas-Rodríguez and José Miguel Molina-Martínez

Water 2021, 13(3), 322; doi:10.3390/w13030322

Article: Quantitative Characteristics of the Current Multi-Source Precipitation Products over Zhejiang Province, in Summer, 2019

Chao Qiu, Leiding Ding, Lan Zhang, Jintao Xu and Ziqiang Ma

Water 2021, 13(3), 334; doi:10.3390/w13030334

Article: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Surface Water Quality in Dong Thap Province, Vietnam Using Water Quality Index and Statistical Approaches

Nguyen Thanh Giao, Phan Kim Anh and Huynh Thi Hong Nhien

Water 2021, 13(3), 336; doi:10.3390/w13030336

Article: Investigating Water Quality Data Using Principal Component Analysis and Granger Causality

Maryam Zavareh, Viviana Maggioni and Vadim Sokolov

Water 2021, 13(3), 343; doi:10.3390/w13030343

Article: Potential Dam Breach Analysis and Flood Wave Risk Assessment Using HEC-RAS and Remote Sensing Data: A Multicriteria Approach

Emmanouil Psomiadis, Lefteris Tomanis, Antonis Kavvadias, Konstantinos X. Soulis, Nikos Charizopoulos and Spyros Michas

Water 2021, 13(3), 364; doi:10.3390/w13030364

Editorial: Science—Policy Engagement to Achieve “Water for Society—Including All”

Guillermo Donoso, Jennie Barron, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Hussam Hussein and Gyewoon Choi

Water 2021, 13(3), 246; doi:10.3390/w13030246

Editorial: Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Water in 2020

Water Editorial Office

Water 2021, 13(3), 291; doi:10.3390/w13030291

 

Water and One Health

Article: Efficiency of Arsenic and Iron Removal Plants (AIRPs) for Groundwater Treatment in Rural Areas of Southwest Bangladesh

Md. Aminur Rahman, Sazal Kumar, A. S. M. Fazle Bari, Abhishek Sharma and Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman

Water 2021, 13(3), 354; doi:10.3390/w13030354

Article: Analysis of the Arbovirosis Potential Occurrence in Dobrogea, Romania

Carmen Maftei, Alina Bărbulescu, Sorin Rugina, Cristian Dorin Nastac and Irina Magdalena Dumitru

Water 2021, 13(3), 374; doi:10.3390/w13030374

 

Hydrology and Hydrogeology

Article: Optical Methods for River Monitoring: A Simulation-Based Approach to Explore Optimal Experimental Setup for LSPIV

Dario Pumo, Francesco Alongi, Giuseppe Ciraolo and Leonardo V. Noto

Water 2021, 13(3), 247; doi:10.3390/w13030247

Article: Relationships of Hydrological Seasons in Rivers and Groundwaters in Selected Catchments in Poland

Przemysław Tomalski, Edmund Tomaszewski, Dariusz Wrzesiński and Leszek Sobkowiak

Water 2021, 13(3), 250; doi:10.3390/w13030250

Article: Spatially Variable Precipitation and Its Influence on Water Balance in a Headwater Alpine Basin, Nepal

Taufique H. Mahmood, Jaakko Putkonen and Aaron Sobbe

Water 2021, 13(3), 254; doi:10.3390/w13030254

Article: A Canopy Transpiration Model Based on Scaling Up Stomatal Conductance and Radiation Interception as Affected by Leaf Area Index

Muhammad Shahinur Alam, David William Lamb and Nigel W. M. Warwick

Water 2021, 13(3), 252; doi:10.3390/w13030252

Article: Assessing the Feasibility of a Cloud-Based, Spatially Distributed Modeling Approach for Tracking Green Stormwater Infrastructure Runoff Reductions

Gary Conley, Nicole Beck, Catherine Riihimaki, Krista McDonald and Michelle Tanner

Water 2021, 13(3), 255; doi:10.3390/w13030255

Article: Estimating the Pan Evaporation in Northwest China by Coupling CatBoost with Bat Algorithm

Liming Dong, Wenzhi Zeng, Lifeng Wu, Guoqing Lei, Haorui Chen, Amit Kumar Srivastava and Thomas Gaiser

Water 2021, 13(3), 256; doi:10.3390/w13030256

Article: Climate Control of Multidecadal Variability in River Discharge and Precipitation in Western Europe

Isabel Jalón-Rojas and Bruno Castelle

Water 2021, 13(3), 257; doi:10.3390/w13030257

Article: An Integrated Modeling System for the Evaluation of Water Resources in Coastal Agricultural Watersheds: Application in Almyros Basin, Thessaly, Greece

Aikaterini Lyra, Athanasios Loukas, Pantelis Sidiropoulos, Georgios Tziatzios and Nikitas Mylopoulos

Water 2021, 13(3), 268; doi:10.3390/w13030268

Article: The Significance of Vertical and Lateral Groundwater–Surface Water Exchange Fluxes in Riverbeds and Riverbanks: Comparing 1D Analytical Flux Estimates with 3D Groundwater Modelling

Gert Ghysels, Christian Anibas, Henock Awol, Abebe Debele Tolche, Uwe Schneidewind and Marijke Huysmans

Water 2021, 13(3), 306; doi:10.3390/w13030306

Article: Spatio-Temporal Variation Characteristics of Snow Depth and Snow Cover Days over the Tibetan Plateau

Chi Zhang, Naixia Mou, Jiqiang Niu, Lingxian Zhang and Feng Liu

Water 2021, 13(3), 307; doi:10.3390/w13030307

Article: Spatial-Temporal Change of Actual Evapotranspiration and the Causes Based on the Advection–Aridity Model in the Weihe River Basin, China

Ruirui Xu, Peng Gao, Xingmin Mu and Chaojun Gu

Water 2021, 13(3), 303; doi:10.3390/w13030303

Article: Impacts of Irrigation Water on the Hydrodynamics and Saline Behavior of the Shallow Alluvial Aquifer in the Senegal River Delta

Abdoul Aziz Gning, Philippe Orban, Raymond Malou, Joost Wellens, Johan Derouane, Mansour Gueye and Serge Brouyère

Water 2021, 13(3), 311; doi:10.3390/w13030311

Article: Assessment of Flood Forecast Products for a Coupled Tributary-Coastal Model

Robert Cifelli, Lynn E. Johnson, Jungho Kim, Tim Coleman, Greg Pratt, Liv Herdman, Rosanne Martyr-Koller, Juliette A. FinziHart, Li Erikson, Patrick Barnard and Michael Anderson

Water 2021, 13(3), 312; doi:10.3390/w13030312

Article: Low Flow and Drought in a German Low Mountain Range Basin

Paula Farina Grosser and Britta Schmalz

Water 2021, 13(3), 316; doi:10.3390/w13030316

Article: Assessment of Streamflow Simulation for a Tropical Forested Catchment Using Dynamic TOPMODEL—Dynamic fluxEs and ConnectIvity for Predictions of HydRology (DECIPHeR) Framework and Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE)

Fadhliani Umar, Zed Zulkafli, Badronnisa Yusuf and Siti Nurhidayu

Water 2021, 13(3), 317; doi:10.3390/w13030317

Article: Projection of Climate Change and Consumptive Demands Projections Impacts on Hydropower Generation in the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil

Marx Vinicius Maciel da Silva, Cleiton da Silva Silveira, José Micael Ferreira da Costa, Eduardo Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins and Francisco das Chagas Vasconcelos Júnior

Water 2021, 13(3), 332; doi:10.3390/w13030332

Article: Assessment of Remote Sensing and Re-Analysis Estimates of Regional Precipitation over Mato Grosso, Brazil

Altemar L. Pedreira Junior, Marcelo S. Biudes, Nadja G. Machado, George L. Vourlitis, Hatim M. E. Geli, Luiz Octávio F. dos Santos, Carlos A. S. Querino, Israel O. Ivo and Névio Lotufo Neto

Water 2021, 13(3), 333; doi:10.3390/w13030333

Article: Operationalizing Urban Resilience to Floods in Island Territories—Application in Punaauia, French Polynesia

Yoann Lamaury, Jérémy Jessin, Charlotte Heinzlef and Damien Serre

Water 2021, 13(3), 337; doi:10.3390/w13030337

Article: High-Arsenic Groundwater in Paleochannels of the Lower Yellow River, China: Distribution and Genesis Mechanisms

Chuanshun Zhi, Wengeng Cao, Zhen Wang and Zeyan Li

Water 2021, 13(3), 338; doi:10.3390/w13030338

Article: Spatio-Temporal Variations in Phytoplankton Communities in Sediment and Surface Water as Reservoir Drawdown—A Case Study of Pengxi River in Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Wenjuan Ouyang, Zhe Li, Jixiang Yang, Lunhui Lu and Jinsong Guo

Water 2021, 13(3), 340; doi:10.3390/w13030340

Article: Uncertainty Analysis of SWAT Modeling in the Lancang River Basin Using Four Different Algorithms

Xiongpeng Tang, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Junliang Jin, Cuishan Liu, Yanli Liu, Ruimin He and Zhenxin Bao

Water 2021, 13(3), 341; doi:10.3390/w13030341

Article: Social Ecological Dynamics of Catchment Resilience

W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, Catherine Butler and Tara Quinn

Water 2021, 13(3), 349; doi:10.3390/w13030349

Article: Long-Term Spatiotemporal Variation of Droughts in the Amazon River Basin

Franklin Paredes-Trejo, Humberto Alves Barbosa, Jason Giovannettone, T. V. Lakshmi Kumar, Manoj Kumar Thakur and Catarina de Oliveira Buriti

Water 2021, 13(3), 351; doi:10.3390/w13030351

Article: Evaluating Potential for Groundwater Contamination from Surface Spills Associated with Unconventional Oil and Gas Production: Methodology and Application to the South Platte Alluvial Aquifer

Cynthia Mai Kanno and John E. McCray

Water 2021, 13(3), 353; doi:10.3390/w13030353

Article: Research of Impacts of the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake on Sediment Transport in the Atsuma River Basin Using the SWAT Model

Yuechao Chen, Makoto Nakatsugawa and Hiroki Ohashi

Water 2021, 13(3), 356; doi:10.3390/w13030356

Article: On Neglecting Free-Stream Turbulence in Numerical Simulation of the Wind-Induced Bias of Snow Gauges

Arianna Cauteruccio, Matteo Colli and Luca G. Lanza

Water 2021, 13(3), 363; doi:10.3390/w13030363

Article: Using AHP and Spatial Analysis to Determine Water Surface Storage Suitability in Cambodia

Michael Ward, Cristina Poleacovschi and Michael Perez

Water 2021, 13(3), 367; doi:10.3390/w13030367

Article: Technological Spaces in the Semi-Arid High Plains: Examining Well Ownership and Investment in Water-Saving Appliances

Brock Ternes

Water 2021, 13(3), 365; doi:10.3390/w13030365

Article: Classification and Prediction of Natural Streamflow Regimes in Arid Regions of the USA

Angela M. Merritt, Belize Lane and Charles P. Hawkins

Water 2021, 13(3), 380; doi:10.3390/w13030380

Article: Optimization of the Groundwater Remediation Process Using a Coupled Genetic Algorithm-Finite Difference Method

S. M. Seyedpour, I. Valizadeh, P. Kirmizakis, R. Doherty and T. Ricken

Water 2021, 13(3), 383; doi:10.3390/w13030383

Article: Using Isotopic and Hydrochemical Indicators to Identify Sources of Sulfate in Karst Groundwater of the Niangziguan Spring Field, China

Chunlei Tang, Hua Jin and Yongping Liang

Water 2021, 13(3), 390; doi:10.3390/w13030390

Editorial: Preface to the Special Issue “Rainfall Thresholds and Other Approaches for Landslide Prediction and Early Warning”

Samuele Segoni, Stefano Luigi Gariano and Ascanio Rosi

Water 2021, 13(3), 323; doi:10.3390/w13030323

Technical Note: Damage Characteristics and Mechanism of the 2017 Groundwater Inrush Accident That Occurred at Dongyu Coalmine in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Bin Luo, Yajun Sun, Zhimin Xu, Ge Chen, Li Zhang, Weining Lu, Xianming Zhao and Huiqing Yuan

Water 2021, 13(3), 368; doi:10.3390/w13030368

 

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: Photocatalytic Oxidation of Natural Organic Matter in Water

Dan C. A. Gowland, Neil Robertson and Efthalia Chatzisymeon

Water 2021, 13(3), 288; doi:10.3390/w13030288

Article: Selective Removal of Hexavalent Chromium from Wastewater by Rice Husk: Kinetic, Isotherm and Spectroscopic Investigation

Usman Khalil, Muhammad Bilal Shakoor, Shafaqat Ali, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Muhammad Rizwan, Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli and Mohammed Nasser Alyemeni

Water 2021, 13(3), 263; doi:10.3390/w13030263

Article: The Inclusion of Acidic and Stormwater Flows in Concrete Sewer Corrosion Mitigation Studies

Georgios Fytianos, Anastasios Tsikrikis, Costas A. Anagnostopoulos, Efthimios Papastergiadis and Petros Samaras

Water 2021, 13(3), 261; doi:10.3390/w13030261

Article: Effects of the Combined Utilization of Ultrasonic/Hydrogen Peroxide on Excess Sludge Destruction

Dehao Yuan, Xu Zhou, Wenbiao Jin, Wei Han, Huizhong Chi, Wanqing Ding, Yan Huang, Zhongqi He, Shuhong Gao and Qilin Wang

Water 2021, 13(3), 266; doi:10.3390/w13030266

Article: From Waste to Biosorbent: Removal of Congo Red from Water by Waste Wood Biomass

Marija Stjepanović, Natalija Velić, Antonela Galić, Indira Kosović, Tamara Jakovljević and Mirna Habuda-Stanić

Water 2021, 13(3), 279; doi:10.3390/w13030279

Article: Field Investigation and Economic Benefit of a Novel Method of Silver Application to Ceramic Water Filters for Point-Of-Use Water Treatment in Low-Income Settings

Nkosinobubelo Ndebele, Joshua N. Edokpayi, John O. Odiyo and James A. Smith

Water 2021, 13(3), 285; doi:10.3390/w13030285

Article: The Operating Characteristics of Partial Nitrification by Controlling pH and Alkalinity

Chen Chen, Yinghao Song and Yanchao Yuan

Water 2021, 13(3), 286; doi:10.3390/w13030286

Article: Climate Change Mitigation Strategy through Membranes Replacement and Determination Methodology of Carbon Footprint in Reverse Osmosis RO Desalination Plants for Islands and Isolated Territories

Federico Leon, Alejandro Ramos, Jenifer Vaswani, Carlos Mendieta and Saulo Brito

Water 2021, 13(3), 293; doi:10.3390/w13030293

Article: Evaluating Microbial Interactions of Autotrophs and Heterotrophs in Partial Nitritation/Anammox (PN/A) Process by Experimental and Simulation Analyses

Guowang Lai, Zhaorui Chu, Xiaoyu Huang, Jianye Ma and Hongwei Rong

Water 2021, 13(3), 324; doi:10.3390/w13030324

Article: Assessment of Full-Scale Indirect Potable Water Reuse in El Port de la Selva, Spain

Soňa Fajnorová, Christoph Sprenger, Nina Hermes, Thomas A. Ternes, Lluís Sala, Ulf Miehe, Jörg E. Drewes and Uwe Hübner

Water 2021, 13(3), 325; doi:10.3390/w13030325

Article: Magnetic Photocatalyst for Wastewater Tertiary Treatment at Pilot Plant Scale: Disinfection and Enrofloxacin Abatement

Iván Sciscenko, Sergio Mestre, Javier Climent, Francisco Valero, Carlos Escudero-Oñate, Isabel Oller and Antonio Arques

Water 2021, 13(3), 329; doi:10.3390/w13030329

Article: Enhanced Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Primary Sewage Sludge

Foteini Sakaveli, Maria Petala, Vasilios Tsiridis and Efthymios Darakas

Water 2021, 13(3), 348; doi:10.3390/w13030348

Article: Start-Up of Anammox SBR from Non-Specific Inoculum and Process Acceleration Methods by Hydrazine

Ivar Zekker, Oleg Artemchuk, Ergo Rikmann, Kelvin Ohimai, Gourav Dhar Bhowmick, Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar, Juris Burlakovs and Taavo Tenno

Water 2021, 13(3), 350; doi:10.3390/w13030350

Article: Potential Viable Products Identified from Characterisation of Agricultural Slaughterhouse Rendering Wastewater

Brian Brennan, Burcu Gunes, Matthew R. Jacobs, Jenny Lawler and Fiona Regan

Water 2021, 13(3), 352; doi:10.3390/w13030352

Article: Presence and Reduction of Anthropogenic Substances with UV Light and Oxidizing Disinfectants in Wastewater—A Case Study at Kuopio, Finland

Jenni Ikonen, Ilpo Nuutinen, Marjo Niittynen, Anna-Maria Hokajärvi, Tarja Pitkänen, Eero Antikainen and Ilkka T. Miettinen

Water 2021, 13(3), 360; doi:10.3390/w13030360

Article: Evaluating the Potential of a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach toward the Sustainable Development of Bangladesh

Mohammad Nahidul Karim and Bassel Daher

Water 2021, 13(3), 366; doi:10.3390/w13030366

Article: A Highly Packed Biofilm Reactor with Cycle Cleaning for the Efficient Treatment of Rural Wastewater

Yanan Luan, Chen Qiu, Yaoxian Li, Weichang Kang, Jianhua Zhang, Zuliang Liao and Xuejun Bi

Water 2021, 13(3), 369; doi:10.3390/w13030369

Article: Physicochemical Interactions in Systems C.I. Direct Yellow 50—Weakly Basic Resins: Kinetic, Equilibrium, and Auxiliaries Addition Aspects

Monika Wawrzkiewicz and Ewelina Polska-Adach

Water 2021, 13(3), 385; doi:10.3390/w13030385

Article: Structural Changes in French VF Treatment Wetland Porous Media during the Rest Period: An Ex Situ Study Using X-ray Tomography

German Dario Martinez-Carvajal, Laurent Oxarango, Jérôme Adrien, Pascal Molle and Nicolas Forquet

Water 2021, 13(3), 389; doi:10.3390/w13030389

Editorial: Water Quality Engineering and Wastewater Treatment

Yung-Tse Hung, Hamidi Abdul Aziz, Issam A. Al-Khatib, Rehab O. Abdel Rahman and Mario GR Cora-Hernandez

Water 2021, 13(3), 330; doi:10.3390/w13030330

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Review: The Impacts of Hydropower Dams in the Mekong River Basin: A Review

Akarath Soukhaphon, Ian G. Baird and Zeb S. Hogan

Water 2021, 13(3), 265; doi:10.3390/w13030265

Article: How Much Does Water Management Cost? The Case of the Water Market in the Ñuble River of South-Central Chile

Bratian Buzolic, José Luis Arumí and Jorge Jimenez

Water 2021, 13(3), 258; doi:10.3390/w13030258

Article: Equity vs. Efficiency and the Human Right to Water

Manuel Prieto

Water 2021, 13(3), 278; doi:10.3390/w13030278

Article: A Systemic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Gold Mining within the Blyde River Catchment, a Strategic Water Area of South Africa

Itumeleng M Selebalo, Mary C Scholes and Jai K Clifford-Holmes

Water 2021, 13(3), 301; doi:10.3390/w13030301

Article: Mapping Center Pivot Irrigation Systems in the Southern Amazon from Sentinel-2 Images

Jiwen Tang, Damien Arvor, Thomas Corpetti and Ping Tang

Water 2021, 13(3), 298; doi:10.3390/w13030298

Article: Interaction of Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Services in Rural Indonesia: Evidence from Small Surveys of WASH-Related Stakeholders in Indonesia

D. Daniel, Dennis Djohan and Anindrya Nastiti

Water 2021, 13(3), 314; doi:10.3390/w13030314

Article: Effects of Vegetation Restoration on Regional Soil Moisture Content in the Humid Karst Areas—A Case Study of Southwest China

Xiaocha Wei, Qiuwen Zhou, Mingyong Cai and Yujuan Wang

Water 2021, 13(3), 321; doi:10.3390/w13030321

Editorial: Hydrological and Hydro-Meteorological Extremes and Related Risk and Uncertainty

Athanasios Loukas, Luis Garrote and Lampros Vasiliades

Water 2021, 13(3), 377; doi:10.3390/w13030377

Aquatic Systems—Quality and Contamination

Review: Integration of DNA-Based Approaches in Aquatic Ecological Assessment Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates

Sofia Duarte, Barbara R. Leite, Maria João Feio, Filipe O. Costa and Ana Filipa Filipe

Water 2021, 13(3), 331; doi:10.3390/w13030331

Article: Changing Water Levels in Lake Superior, MI (USA) Impact Periphytic Diatom Assemblages in the Keweenaw Peninsula

M. Megan Woller-Skar, Alexandra Locher, Ellen Audia and Evan W. Thomas

Water 2021, 13(3), 253; doi:10.3390/w13030253

Article: Occurrence of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Groundwater from the Gran Canaria Island (Spain)

Sarah Montesdeoca-Esponda, María del Pino Palacios-Díaz, Esmeralda Estévez, Zoraida Sosa-Ferrera, José Juan Santana-Rodríguez and María del Carmen Cabrera

Water 2021, 13(3), 262; doi:10.3390/w13030262

Article: Presence of Microplastics in the Food Web of the Largest High-Elevation Lake in North America

Stephanie C. Driscoll, Hayley C. Glassic, Christopher S. Guy and Todd M. Koel

Water 2021, 13(3), 264; doi:10.3390/w13030264

Article: Trace Element Contamination in One of the Yangtze Tributaries (Hunan, China)—Source Review and Potential Release from Sediments

Cécile Grosbois, Marc Desmet, Mengxue Zhang, Nathalie Gassama, Qinghui Peng, Jiachao Zhang, Lin Luo, Fengfeng Zhang and Fabienne Battaglia

Water 2021, 13(3), 271; doi:10.3390/w13030271

Article: Optical Absorption Characteristics, Spatial Distribution, and Source Analysis of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in Wetland Water around Poyang Lake

Zhengjun Jian, Jian Xu, Xiaolan Huang, Wenjing Yang and Qiwu Hu

Water 2021, 13(3), 274; doi:10.3390/w13030274

Article: A New Approach in Determining the Decadal Common Trends in the Groundwater Table of the Watershed of Lake “Neusiedlersee”

Norbert Magyar, István Gábor Hatvani, Miklós Arató, Balázs Trásy, Alfred Paul Blaschke and József Kovács

Water 2021, 13(3), 290; doi:10.3390/w13030290

Article: Ecological Efficiency of the Mussel Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852) on Particulate Organic Matter Filtering, Algal Controlling and Water Quality Regulation

Xiaobo Yu, Qinglin Yang, Zhe Zhao, Xiaoqi Tang, Bo Xiong, Shengqi Su, Zhengli Wu and Weizhi Yao

Water 2021, 13(3), 297; doi:10.3390/w13030297

Article: The Long-Term Effects of Dredging on Chromium Pollution in the Sediment of Meiliang Bay, Lake Taihu, China

Shuaishuai Gao, Xigang Xing, Shiming Ding and Xianfang Fan

Water 2021, 13(3), 327; doi:10.3390/w13030327

Article: Effect of Emergency Water Discharges from the Dam in Włocławek on the Sedimentary Structures of Channel Bars in the Lower Flow Regime of the River Vistula

Marcin Hojan and Mirosław Rurek

Water 2021, 13(3), 328; doi:10.3390/w13030328

Article: Assessing Diazinon Pollution in the Three Major Rivers Flowing into the Caspian Sea (Iran)

Reza Dahmardeh Behrooz, Abbas Esmaili-sari, Magdalena Urbaniak and Paromita Chakraborty

Water 2021, 13(3), 335; doi:10.3390/w13030335

Article: The Role of Climate Changes in the Spread of Freshwater Fishes: Implications for Alien Cool and Warm-Water Species in a Mediterranean Basin

Antonella Carosi, Lucia Ghetti and Massimo Lorenzoni

Water 2021, 13(3), 347; doi:10.3390/w13030347

Article: Diatom Algae-Indicators of Water Quality in the Lower Zarafshan River, Uzbekistan

Sophia Barinova and Karomat Mamanazarova

Water 2021, 13(3), 358; doi:10.3390/w13030358

Article: Comparative Investigation of Aquatic Invertebrates in Springs in Münsterland Area (Western Germany)

Sura Abdulghani Alqaragholi, Wael Kanoua and Patricia Göbel

Water 2021, 13(3), 359; doi:10.3390/w13030359

Article: Modeling the Effectiveness of Cooling Trenches for Stormwater Temperature Mitigation

Scott A. Wells

Water 2021, 13(3), 373; doi:10.3390/w13030373

Article: Management of the Phosphorus–Cladophora Dynamic at a Site on Lake Ontario Using a Multi-Module Bioavailable P Model

Martin T. Auer, Cory P. McDonald, Anika Kuczynski, Chenfu Huang and Pengfei Xue

Water 2021, 13(3), 375; doi:10.3390/w13030375

Editorial: Effect of Extreme Climate Events on Lake Ecosystems

Erik Jeppesen, Donald Pierson and Eleanor Jennings

Water 2021, 13(3), 282; doi:10.3390/w13030282

Urban Water Management

Article: Integrating Structural Resilience in the Design of Urban Drainage Networks in Flat Areas Using a Simplified Multi-Objective Optimization Framework

Amin E. Bakhshipour, Jessica Hespen, Ali Haghighi, Ulrich Dittmer and Wolfgang Nowak

Water 2021, 13(3), 269; doi:10.3390/w13030269

Article: Laws and Mechanism of the Fe (III) Clogging of Porous Media in Managed Aquifer Recharge

Hexuan Zhang, Xueyan Ye and Xinqiang Du

Water 2021, 13(3), 284; doi:10.3390/w13030284

Article: Adsorption of Metals to Particles in Urban Stormwater Runoff—Does Size Really Matter?

Philipp Baum, Bertram Kuch and Ulrich Dittmer

Water 2021, 13(3), 309; doi:10.3390/w13030309

Article: Water Demand Prediction Using Machine Learning Methods: A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region in China

Qing Shuang and Rui Ting Zhao

Water 2021, 13(3), 310; doi:10.3390/w13030310

Article: Inorganic Nitrogen Production and Removal along the Sediment Gradient of a Stormwater Infiltration Basin

Qianyao Si, Mary G. Lusk and Patrick W. Inglett

Water 2021, 13(3), 320; doi:10.3390/w13030320

Article: Deterministic Model to Estimate the Energy Requirements of Pressurized Water Transport Systems

Enrique Cabrera, Roberto del Teso, Elena Gómez, Enrique Cabrera and Elvira Estruch-Juan

Water 2021, 13(3), 345; doi:10.3390/w13030345

Article: Spatio-Temporal Coupling Coordination Analysis between Urbanization and Water Resource Carrying Capacity of the Provinces in the Yellow River Basin, China

Ran Qiao, Huimin Li and Han Han

Water 2021, 13(3), 376; doi:10.3390/w13030376

Article: Management of Urban Stormwater at Block-Level (MUST-B): A New Approach for Potential Analysis of Decentralized Stormwater Management Systems

Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar, Manfred van Afferden, Maximilian Ueberham, Michael Stefan, Stefan Geyler and Roland A. Müller

Water 2021, 13(3), 378; doi:10.3390/w13030378

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Article: SPH-ALE Scheme for Weakly Compressible Viscous Flow with a Posteriori Stabilization

Antonio Eirís, Luis Ramírez, Javier Fernández-Fidalgo, Iván Couceiro and Xesús Nogueira

Water 2021, 13(3), 245; doi:10.3390/w13030245

Article: Interaction of Very Large Scale Motion of Coherent Structures with Sediment Particle Exposure

Sencer Yücesan, Daniel Wildt, Philipp Gmeiner, Johannes Schobesberger, Christoph Hauer, Christine Sindelar, Helmut Habersack and Michael Tritthart

Water 2021, 13(3), 248; doi:10.3390/w13030248

Article: Performance Improvement of a Drag Hydrokinetic Turbine

Mabrouk Mosbahi, Mariem Lajnef, Mouna Derbel, Bouzid Mosbahi, Costanza Aricò, Marco Sinagra and Zied Driss

Water 2021, 13(3), 273; doi:10.3390/w13030273

Article: Flow Turbulence Characteristics and Mass Transport in the Near-Wake Region of an Aquaculture Cage Net Panel

Dongdong Shao, Li Huang, Ruo-Qian Wang, Carlo Gualtieri and Alan Cuthbertson

Water 2021, 13(3), 294; doi:10.3390/w13030294

Article: Modeling and Monitoring of Hydrodynamics and Surface Water Quality in the Sulejów Dam Reservoir, Poland

Aleksandra Ziemińska-Stolarska and Magdalena Kempa

Water 2021, 13(3), 296; doi:10.3390/w13030296

Article: An RF-PCE Hybrid Surrogate Model for Sensitivity Analysis of Dams

Mohammad Amin Hariri-Ardebili, Golsa Mahdavi, Azam Abdollahi and Ali Amini

Water 2021, 13(3), 302; doi:10.3390/w13030302

Article: Impeller Optimization in Crossflow Hydraulic Turbines

Marco Sinagra, Calogero Picone, Costanza Aricò, Antonio Pantano, Tullio Tucciarelli, Marwa Hannachi and Zied Driss

Water 2021, 13(3), 313; doi:10.3390/w13030313

Article: Secondary Currents with Scour Hole at Grade Control Structures

Mouldi Ben Meftah, Diana De Padova, Francesca De Serio and Michele Mossa

Water 2021, 13(3), 319; doi:10.3390/w13030319

Article: Use of the Hydraulic Model for the Operational Analysis of the Water Supply Network: A Case Study

Urszula Kepa

Water 2021, 13(3), 326; doi:10.3390/w13030326

Article: Investigate Impact Force of Dam-Break Flow against Structures by Both 2D and 3D Numerical Simulations

Le Thi Thu Hien and Nguyen Van Chien

Water 2021, 13(3), 344; doi:10.3390/w13030344

Article: A Simple Method for the Control Time of a Pumping Station to Ensure a Stable Water Level Immediately Upstream of the Pumping Station under a Change of the Discharge in an Open Channel

Peiru Yan, Zhao Zhang, Xiaohui Lei, Ying Zheng, Jie Zhu, Hao Wang and Qiaofeng Tan

Water 2021, 13(3), 355; doi:10.3390/w13030355

Article: Jacobian Free Methods for Coupling Transport with Chemistry in Heterogenous Porous Media

Laila Amir and Michel Kern

Water 2021, 13(3), 370; doi:10.3390/w13030370

Article: Influence of the Drag Force on the Average Absorbed Power of Heaving Wave Energy Converters Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Nicolas Quartier, Pablo Ropero-Giralda, José M. Domínguez, Vasiliki Stratigaki and Peter Troch

Water 2021, 13(3), 384; doi:10.3390/w13030384

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Review: Assessing the Ecological Status of European Rivers and Lakes Using Benthic Invertebrate Communities: A Practical Catalogue of Metrics and Methods

Simon Vitecek, Richard K. Johnson and Sandra Poikane

Water 2021, 13(3), 346; doi:10.3390/w13030346

Article: Using Integrated Hydrological Models to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on Discharges and Extreme Flood Events in the Upper Yangtze River Basin

Yanjuan Wu, Gang Luo, Cai Chen, Zheng Duan and Chao Gao

Water 2021, 13(3), 299; doi:10.3390/w13030299

Article: Surface Sediment Diatom Assemblages Response to Water Environment in Dongping Lake, North China

Shuangshuang Liu, Min Yao, Shiyue Chen and Xingzhong Yuan

Water 2021, 13(3), 339; doi:10.3390/w13030339

Article: Interannual and Spatial Variability of Cyanotoxins in the Prespa Lake Area, Greece

Valentini Maliaka, Miquel Lürling, Christian Fritz, Yvon J.M. Verstijnen, Elisabeth J. Faassen, Frank van Oosterhout and Alfons J.P. Smolders

Water 2021, 13(3), 357; doi:10.3390/w13030357

Article: Wet Meadow Plant Communities of the Alliance Trifolion pallidi on the Southeastern Margin of the Pannonian Plain

Andraž Čarni, Mirjana Ćuk, Igor Zelnik, Jozo Franjić, Ružica Igić, Miloš Ilić, Daniel Krstonošić, Dragana Vukov and Željko Škvorc

Water 2021, 13(3), 381; doi:10.3390/w13030381

Article: Plasticity in Reproductive Traits, Condition and Energy Allocation of the Non-Native Pyrenean Gudgeon Gobio lozanoi in a Highly Regulated Mediterranean River Basin

Fátima Amat-Trigo, Mar Torralva, Daniel González-Silvera, Francisco Javier Martínez-López and Francisco José Oliva-Paterna

Water 2021, 13(3), 387; doi:10.3390/w13030387

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Review: Blue Water Visitor Monitoring Potential: A Literature Review and Alternative Proposal

Ross G. Andrew, Robert C. Burns, Danielle Schwarzmann, Mary E. Allen and Jasmine Cardozo Moreira

Water 2021, 13(3), 305; doi:10.3390/w13030305

Article: Parametric Modeling of Depth-Limited Wave Spectra under Hurricane Conditions with Applications to Kinetic Umbrellas against Storm Surge Inundation

Shengzhe Wang, Maria Garlock and Branko Glisic

Water 2021, 13(3), 251; doi:10.3390/w13030251

Article: An Assessment of Vertical Land Movement to Support Coastal Hazards Planning in Washington State

Tyler J. Newton, Ray Weldon, Ian M. Miller, David Schmidt, Guillaume Mauger, Harriet Morgan and Eric Grossman

Water 2021, 13(3), 281; doi:10.3390/w13030281

Article: Fishery-Based Ecotourism in Developing Countries Can Enhance the Social-Ecological Resilience of Coastal Fishers—A Case Study of Bangladesh

Mohammad Muslem Uddin, Petra Schneider, Md. Rashedul Islam Asif, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Arifuzzaman and Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder

Water 2021, 13(3), 292; doi:10.3390/w13030292

Article: Determination of Force Coefficients for a Submerged Rigid Breakwater under the Action of Solitary Waves

Francesco Aristodemo, Giuseppe Tripepi, Luana Gurnari and Pasquale Filianoti

Water 2021, 13(3), 315; doi:10.3390/w13030315

Article: Pollen Geochronology from the Atlantic Coast of the United States during the Last 500 Years

Margaret A. Christie, Christopher E. Bernhardt, Andrew C. Parnell, Timothy A. Shaw, Nicole S. Khan, D. Reide Corbett, Ane García-Artola, Jennifer Clear, Jennifer S. Walker, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Tobias R. Hasse and Benjamin P. Horton

Water 2021, 13(3), 362; doi:10.3390/w13030362

Article: Neural Network Approach to Retrieving Ocean Subsurface Temperatures from Surface Parameters Observed by Satellites

Hao Cheng, Liang Sun and Jiagen Li

Water 2021, 13(3), 388; doi:10.3390/w13030388

 

Water Erosion and Sediment Transport

Article: Experimental Study on Landslides in Terraced Fields in the Chinese Loessial Region under Extreme Rainfall

Yongfu Wen, Peng Gao, Xingmin Mu, Mengzhen Li, Yongjun Su and Haixing Wang

Water 2021, 13(3), 270; doi:10.3390/w13030270

Article: Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Soil Detachment Capacities of Three Loamy Soils on the Loess Plateau of China

Jian Lu, Baoyang Sun, Feipeng Ren, Hao Li and Xiyun Jiao

Water 2021, 13(3), 342; doi:10.3390/w13030342

Article: Evaluation of Rainfall Erosivity Factor Estimation Using Machine and Deep Learning Models

Jimin Lee, Seoro Lee, Jiyeong Hong, Dongjun Lee, Joo Hyun Bae, Jae E. Yang, Jonggun Kim and Kyoung Jae Lim

Water 2021, 13(3), 382; doi:10.3390/w13030382

Article: Did the Construction of the Bhumibol Dam Cause a Dramatic Reduction in Sediment Supply to the Chao Phraya River?

Matharit Namsai, Warit Charoenlerkthawin, Supakorn Sirapojanakul, William C. Burnett and Butsawan Bidorn

Water 2021, 13(3), 386; doi:10.3390/w13030386

 

Water Use and Scarcity

Article: Increase in Daily Household Water Demand during the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany

Deike U. Lüdtke, Robert Luetkemeier, Michael Schneemann and Stefan Liehr

Water 2021, 13(3), 260; doi:10.3390/w13030260

Article: A Framework to Assess the Reliability of a Multipurpose Reservoir under Uncertainty in Land Use

Anh Nguyen, Thomas A. Cochrane and Markus Pahlow

Water 2021, 13(3), 287; doi:10.3390/w13030287  

 

Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture

Article: Infrastructure Shaming and Consequences for Management of Urban WEF Security Nexus in China and India

Daphne Gondhalekar and Jörg E. Drewes

Water 2021, 13(3), 267; doi:10.3390/w13030267

Article: Bioelectrochemical Greywater Treatment for Non-Potable Reuse and Energy Recovery

Daniele Cecconet, Silvia Bolognesi, Luca Piacentini, Arianna Callegari and Andrea G. Capodaglio

Water 2021, 13(3), 295; doi:10.3390/w13030295

Article: Sustainability Assessment of White Shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) Production in Super-Intensive System in the Municipality of San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico

Favio Andrés Noguera-Muñoz, Benjamín García García, Jesús Trinidad Ponce-Palafox, Omar Wicab-Gutierrez, Sergio Gustavo Castillo-Vargasmachuca and José García García

Water 2021, 13(3), 304; doi:10.3390/w13030304

Article: Impact of Controlled Drainage and Subirrigation on Water Quality in the Red River Valley

Kristen Almen, Xinhua Jia, Thomas DeSutter, Thomas Scherer and Minglian Lin

Water 2021, 13(3), 308; doi:10.3390/w13030308

Article: Hydrologic Analysis of an Intensively Irrigated Area in Southern Peru Using a Crop-Field Scale Framework

Xiaolu Wei, Pablo Garcia-Chevesich, Francisco Alejo, Vilma García, Gisella Martínez, Fariborz Daneshvar, Laura C. Bowling, Edgard Gonzáles, Richard Krahenbuhl and John E. McCray

Water 2021, 13(3), 318; doi:10.3390/w13030318

Article: Effect of Shallow-Buried High-Intensity Mining on Soil Water Content in Ningtiaota Minefield

Fan Cui, Yunfei Du, Jianyu Ni, Zhirong Zhao and Shiqi Peng

Water 2021, 13(3), 361; doi:10.3390/w13030361

 

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