Water, Volume 13, Issue 12 (June-2 2021): Hydrology, Hydraulics, Hydrodynamics & Hydrogeology; Wastewater Treatment; Management; and More!

It's Water, Volume 13, Issue 12 (June-2 2021) - 105 articles.

Cover Story

Article: The Ecological Relationship of Groundwater–Soil–Vegetation in the Oasis–Desert Transition Zone of the Shiyang River Basin

Le Cao, Zhenlong Nie, Min Liu, Lifang Wang, Jinzhe Wang and Qian Wang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1642; doi:10.3390/w13121642

 

Featured Papers

Review: Deltas in Arid Environments

John Day, Reed Goodman, Zhongyuan Chen, Rachael Hunter, Liviu Giosan and Yanna Wang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1677; doi:10.3390/w13121677

Review: Field Scale Demonstration of Fly Ash Amended Bioretention Cells for Stormwater Phosphorus Removal: A Review of 12 Years of Work

Jason R. Vogel, Rebecca A. Chavez, Saroj Kandel and Glenn O. Brown

Water 2021, 13(12), 1632; doi:10.3390/w13121632

Review: Economic Determinants of Industrial Water Demand: A Review of the Applied Research Literature

Pilar Gracia-de-Rentería and Ramón Barberán

Water 2021, 13(12), 1684; doi:10.3390/w13121684

Review: A Review of River Oil Spill Modeling

Davor Kvočka, Dušan Žagar and Primož Banovec

Water 2021, 13(12), 1620; doi:10.3390/w13121620

Article: Assessing Climatic Drivers of Spring Mean and Annual Maximum Flows in Western Canadian River Basins

Yonas B. Dibike, Rajesh R. Shrestha, Colin Johnson, Barrie Bonsal and Paulin Coulibaly

Water 2021, 13(12), 1617; doi:10.3390/w13121617

Article: Peculiarities of Hydrodynamics of Small Surface Water Bodies in Zones of Active Technogenesis (on the Example of the Verkhne-Zyryansk Reservoir, Russia)

Tatyana Lyubimova, Anatoly Lepikhin, Yanina Parshakova, Andrey Bogomolov, Yury Lyakhin and Alexey Tiunov

Water 2021, 13(12), 1638; doi:10.3390/w13121638

Article: Aquifer Depletion in the Arlit Mining Area (Tim Mersoï Basin, North Niger)

Farida Boubé Dobi, Eugène Koffi Kouakou, Yahaya Nazoumou, Boubacar Abdou Boko, Sophie Ngomune Edimo, Fadji Zaouna Maina and Moussa Konaté

Water 2021, 13(12), 1685; doi:10.3390/w13121685

Article: Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate

Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar, Manfred van Afferden, Christopher M. Sullivan, Christoph Fühner, Jamsaran Amgalan, Jöerg Londong and Roland Arno Müller

Water 2021, 13(12), 1630; doi:10.3390/w13121630

Article: Iprodione Removal by UV-Light-, Zero-Valent Iron- and Zero-Valent Aluminium-Activated Persulfate Oxidation Processes in Pure Water and Simulated Tertiary Treated Urban Wastewater

Bahareh Montazeri, Olga Koba-Ucun, Idil Arslan-Alaton and Tugba Olmez-Hanci

Water 2021, 13(12), 1679; doi:10.3390/w13121679

Article: Enhancing the Resilience of the Management of Water Resources in the Agricultural Supply Chain

Wenping Xu, Zhi Zhong, David Proverbs, Shu Xiong and Yuan Zhang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1619; doi:10.3390/w13121619

Article: A Weight of Evidence (WOE) Approach to Assess Environmental Hazard of Marine Sediments from Adriatic Offshore Platform Area

Loredana Manfra, Chiara Maggi, Giuseppe d’Errico, Alice Rotini, Barbara Catalano, Silvia Maltese, Ginevra Moltedo, Giulia Romanelli, Giulio Sesta, Giuseppe Granato, Pasquale Lanera, Marina Amici, Giacomo Martuccio, Fulvio Onorati, Rossella Di Mento, Maria T. Berducci, Gianluca Chiaretti, Olga Faraponova, Francesco Regoli and Andrea Tornambè

Water 2021, 13(12), 1691; doi:10.3390/w13121691

Article: The River Influence Controls Water Quality and Spatio-Temporal Microalgal Distribution in Pacific Estuaries (Padre Ramos and Salinas Grandes) of Nicaragua

Carmen Rojo, Dalia Lumbi, Ariel Aguilar, Karen Palacios, Katherine Osorio and Pilar Ruiz

Water 2021, 13(12), 1712; doi:10.3390/w13121712

Article: Influence of Environmental Factors on Occurrence of Cyanobacteria and Abundance of Saxitoxin-Producing Cyanobacteria in a Subtropical Drinking Water Reservoir in Brazil

Munique A. B. Moraes, Raphaella A. M. Rodrigues, Louise Schlüter, Raju Podduturi, Niels O. G. Jørgensen and Maria C. Calijuri

Water 2021, 13(12), 1716; doi:10.3390/w13121716

Article: Socio-Hydrological Approach to Explore Groundwater–Human Wellbeing Nexus: Case Study from Sundarbans, India

Soham Halder, Pankaj Kumar, Kousik Das, Rajarshi Dasgupta and Abhijit Mukherjee

Water 2021, 13(12), 1635; doi:10.3390/w13121635

Article: Development of a Multi-Methodological Approach to Support the Management of Water Supply Systems

Wanderbeg C. de Araujo, Karla P. Oliveira-Esquerre and Oz Sahin

Water 2021, 13(12), 1655; doi:10.3390/w13121655

Article: The Story of a Steep River: Causes and Effects of the Flash Flood on 24 July 2017 in Western Norway

Adina Moraru, Michal Pavlíček, Oddbjørn Bruland and Nils Rüther

Water 2021, 13(12), 1688; doi:10.3390/w13121688

Article: Physiological Responses of the Submerged Macrophyte Stuckenia pectinata to High Salinity and Irradiance Stress to Assess Eutrophication Management and Climatic Effects: An Integrative Approach

Lamprini Malea, Konstantinia Nakou, Apostolos Papadimitriou, Athanasios Exadactylos and Sotiris Orfanidis

Water 2021, 13(12), 1706; doi:10.3390/w13121706

Article: Trend Detection of Wave Parameters along the Italian Seas

Tommaso Caloiero and Francesco Aristodemo

Water 2021, 13(12), 1634; doi:10.3390/w13121634

Article: Numerical Study of Discharge Adjustment Effects on Reservoir Morphodynamics and Flushing Efficiency: An Outlook for the Unazuki Reservoir, Japan

Taymaz Esmaeili, Tetsuya Sumi, Sameh A. Kantoush, Yoji Kubota, Stefan Haun and Nils Rüther

Water 2021, 13(12), 1624; doi:10.3390/w13121624

 

General

Article: Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in a Coastal Region of the Pearl River Estuary, China

Siyang Li, Yilin Wang, Lihong Liu, Houwei Lai, Xiancan Zeng, Jianyu Chen, Chang Liu and Qijin Luo

Water 2021, 13(12), 1618; doi:10.3390/w13121618

Article: A New Method for Optimization of Water Distribution Networks While Considering Accidents

Ruizhe Liu, Fangcheng Guo, Weiqian Sun, Yue Wang, Zihan Zhang and Xiaoyi Ma

Water 2021, 13(12), 1651; doi:10.3390/w13121651

Article: Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Sources of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in the Xiujiang River of Poyang Lake Basin in the Dry Season

Xiaodong Chu, Hao Wang, Fangwen Zheng, Cheng Huang, Chunxia Xu and Daishe Wu

Water 2021, 13(12), 1654; doi:10.3390/w13121654

Article: Degradation of Trimethoprim Using the UV/Free Chlorine Process: Influencing Factors and Optimal Operating Conditions

Bing Wang, Qi Zhang, Yongdi Fu, Zhilin Ran, John C. Crittenden, Weiqiu Zhang and Haipei Wang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1656; doi:10.3390/w13121656

Article: Photogrammetry for Free Surface Flow Velocity Measurement: From Laboratory to Field Measurements

Hang Trieu, Per Bergström, Mikael Sjödahl, J. Gunnar I. Hellström, Patrik Andreasson and Henrik Lycksam

Water 2021, 13(12), 1675; doi:10.3390/w13121675

Article: Hydroclimate Trend Analysis of Upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia

Fekadu Aduna Duguma, Fekadu Fufa Feyessa, Tamene Adugna Demissie and Krystyna Januszkiewicz

Water 2021, 13(12), 1680; doi:10.3390/w13121680

Article: Graph Convolutional Networks: Application to Database Completion of Wastewater Networks

Yassine Belghaddar, Nanee Chahinian, Abderrahmane Seriai, Ahlame Begdouri, Reda Abdou and Carole Delenne

Water 2021, 13(12), 1681; doi:10.3390/w13121681

Article: Effect of Groove Shape on Head Loss and Filtration Performance of Disc Filters

Sang-ik Lee, Jin-Yong Choi and Won Choi

Water 2021, 13(12), 1683; doi:10.3390/w13121683

Article: The Decision of an Eco-Friendly Reservoir Operation Scheme Based on a Variable Set

Hai-Tao Chen, A-Long Li, Wen-Chuan Wang and Zhao Zhao

Water 2021, 13(12), 1694; doi:10.3390/w13121694

Article: Long-Term Trend Analysis of Precipitation and Extreme Events over Kosi River Basin in India

Prashant K. Srivastava, Rajani Kumar Pradhan, George P. Petropoulos, Varsha Pandey, Manika Gupta, Aradhana Yaduvanshi, Wan Zurina Wan Jaafar, Rajesh Kumar Mall and Atul Kumar Sahai

Water 2021, 13(12), 1695; doi:10.3390/w13121695

Article: How Well Can Machine Learning Models Perform without Hydrologists? Application of Rational Feature Selection to Improve Hydrological Forecasting

Vsevolod Moreido, Boris Gartsman, Dimitri P. Solomatine and Zoya Suchilina

Water 2021, 13(12), 1696; doi:10.3390/w13121696

 

Hydrology and Hydrogeology

Article: Flood Stage Forecasting Using Machine-Learning Methods: A Case Study on the Parma River (Italy)

Susanna Dazzi, Renato Vacondio and Paolo Mignosa

Water 2021, 13(12), 1612; doi:10.3390/w13121612

Article: An Empirical Seasonal Rainfall Forecasting Model for the Northeast Region of Brazil

Rodrigo Lins da Rocha Júnior, David Duarte Cavalcante Pinto, Fabrício Daniel dos Santos Silva, Heliofábio Barros Gomes, Helber Barros Gomes, Rafaela Lisboa Costa, Marcos Paulo Santos Pereira, Malaquías Peña, Caio Augusto dos Santos Coelho and Dirceu Luís Herdies

Water 2021, 13(12), 1613; doi:10.3390/w13121613

Article: Beyond Streamflow: Call for a National Data Repository of Streamflow Presence for Streams and Rivers in the United States

Kristin L. Jaeger, Konrad C. Hafen, Jason B. Dunham, Ken M. Fritz, Stephanie K. Kampf, Theodore B. Barnhart, Kendra E. Kaiser, Roy Sando, Sherri L. Johnson, Ryan R. McShane and Sarah B. Dunn

Water 2021, 13(12), 1627; doi:10.3390/w13121627

Article: Land-Use/-Cover Changes and Their Effect on Soil Erosion and River Suspended Sediment Load in Different Landscape Zones of European Russia during 1970–2017

Artyom V. Gusarov

Water 2021, 13(12), 1631; doi:10.3390/w13121631

Article: Estimating Soil Water Susceptibility to Salinization in the Mekong River Delta Using a Modified DRASTIC Model

Thanh N. Le, Duy X. Tran, Thuong V. Tran, Sangay Gyeltshen, Tan V. Lam, Tung H. Luu, Dung Q. Nguyen and Tuyet V. Dao

Water 2021, 13(12), 1636; doi:10.3390/w13121636

Article: Changes in Stream–Aquifer Interactions Due to Gate Opening of the Juksan Weir in Korea

Hyeonju Lee, Min-Ho Koo, Juhyeon Lee and Kangjoo Kim

Water 2021, 13(12), 1639; doi:10.3390/w13121639

Article: An Effective Water Body Extraction Method with New Water Index for Sentinel-2 Imagery

Wei Jiang, Yuan Ni, Zhiguo Pang, Xiaotao Li, Hongrun Ju, Guojin He, Juan Lv, Kun Yang, June Fu and Xiangdong Qin

Water 2021, 13(12), 1647; doi:10.3390/w13121647

Article: Effects of Decaying Hydraulic Conductivity on the Groundwater Flow Processes in a Managed Aquifer Recharge Area in an Alluvial Fan

Peipeng Wu, Lijuan Zhang, Bin Chang and Shuhong Wang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1649; doi:10.3390/w13121649

Article: Flash Flood Susceptibility Assessment and Zonation Using an Integrating Analytic Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Model for the Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Hassan Waqas, Linlin Lu, Aqil Tariq, Qingting Li, Muhammad Fahad Baqa, Jici Xing and Asif Sajjad

Water 2021, 13(12), 1650; doi:10.3390/w13121650

Article: Decision Support Model for Ecological Operation of Reservoirs Based on Dynamic Bayesian Network

Tao Zhou, Zengchuan Dong, Xiuxiu Chen and Qihua Ran

Water 2021, 13(12), 1658; doi:10.3390/w13121658

Article: Recent Changes in Hydroclimatic Patterns over Medium Niger River Basins at the Origin of the 2020 Flood in Niamey (Niger)

Giovanni Massazza, Maurizio Bacci, Luc Descroix, Mohamed Housseini Ibrahim, Edoardo Fiorillo, Gaptia Lawan Katiellou, Geremy Panthou, Alessandro Pezzoli, Maurizio Rosso, Elisa Sauzedde, Andrea Terenziani, Tiziana De Filippis, Leandro Rocchi, Sara Burrone, Maurizio Tiepolo, Théo Vischel and Vieri Tarchiani

Water 2021, 13(12), 1659; doi:10.3390/w13121659

Article: Temporal and Spatial Variation Characteristics of Precipitation in the Haihe River Basin under the Influence of Climate Change

Yuhang Han, Bin Liu, Dan Xu, Chaoguo Yuan, Yanan Xu, Jinxia Sha, Su Li, Yifan Chang, Bolun Sun and Zhiheng Xu

Water 2021, 13(12), 1664; doi:10.3390/w13121664

Article: Can Deep Learning Extract Useful Information about Energy Dissipation and Effective Hydraulic Conductivity from Gridded Conductivity Fields?

Mohammad A. Moghaddam, Paul A. T. Ferre, Mohammad Reza Ehsani, Jeffrey Klakovich and Hoshin Vijay Gupta

Water 2021, 13(12), 1668; doi:10.3390/w13121668

Article: Effect of Unimodal and Bimodal Soil Hydraulic Properties on Slope Stability Analysis

Hsin-Fu Yeh, Tsien-Ting Huang and Jhe-Wei Lee

Water 2021, 13(12), 1674; doi:10.3390/w13121674

Article: Uncertainty Estimation in Hydrogeological Forecasting with Neural Networks: Impact of Spatial Distribution of Rainfalls and Random Initialization of the Model

Nicolas Akil, Guillaume Artigue, Michaël Savary, Anne Johannet and Marc Vinches

Water 2021, 13(12), 1690; doi:10.3390/w13121690

Article: Copula-Based Infilling Methods for Daily Suspended Sediment Loads

Jenq-Tzong Shiau and Yu-Cheng Lien

Water 2021, 13(12), 1701; doi:10.3390/w13121701

Article: Hillslope Contribution to the Clark Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph: Application to the Seolmacheon Basin, Korea

Chulsang Yoo, Huy Phuong Doan, Changhyun Jun and Wooyoung Na

Water 2021, 13(12), 1707; doi:10.3390/w13121707

Article: Improved Streamflow Calibration of a Land Surface Model by the Choice of Objective Functions—A Case Study of the Nakdong River Watershed in the Korean Peninsula

Jong Seok Lee and Hyun Il Choi

Water 2021, 13(12), 1709; doi:10.3390/w13121709

 

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: The Use of TiO₂ as a Disinfectant in Water Sanitation Applications

Rafael Magaña-López, Paloma I. Zaragoza-Sánchez, Blanca E. Jiménez-Cisneros and Alma C. Chávez-Mejía

Water 2021, 13(12), 1641; doi:10.3390/w13121641

Article: Development of Biochars Derived from Water Bamboo (Zizania latifolia) Shoot Husks Using Pyrolysis and Ultrasound-Assisted Pyrolysis for the Treatment of Reactive Black 5 (RB5) in Wastewater

Thanh Tam Nguyen, Hung-Hsiang Chen, Thi Hien To, Yu-Chen Chang, Cheng-Kuo Tsai, Ku-Fan Chen and Yung-Pin Tsai

Water 2021, 13(12), 1615; doi:10.3390/w13121615

Article: Conversion of Whey into Value-Added Products through Fermentation and Membrane Fractionation

Alejandro Caballero, Pablo Caballero, Federico León, Bruno Rodríguez-Morgado, Luis Martín, Juan Parrado, Jenifer Vaswani and Alejandro Ramos-Martín

Water 2021, 13(12), 1623; doi:10.3390/w13121623

Article: CFD Modeling of a Stirred Anaerobic Digestion Tank for Evaluating Energy Consumption through Mixing

Soroush Dabiri, Alireza Noorpoor, Maziar Arfaee, Prashant Kumar and Wolfgang Rauch

Water 2021, 13(12), 1629; doi:10.3390/w13121629

Article: Baseline Study on Microplastics in Indian Rivers under Different Anthropogenic Influences

Simone Lechthaler, Kryss Waldschläger, Chavapati Gouse Sandhani, S. A. Sannasiraj, V. Sundar, Jan Schwarzbauer and Holger Schüttrumpf

Water 2021, 13(12), 1648; doi:10.3390/w13121648

Article: Nonlinear Isotherm and Kinetic Modeling of Cu(II) and Pb(II) Uptake from Water by MnFe₂O₄/Chitosan Nanoadsorbents

Manny Anthony M. Taguba, Dennis C. Ong, Benny Marie B. Ensano, Chi-Chuan Kan, Nurak Grisdanurak, Jurng-Jae Yee and Mark Daniel G. de Luna

Water 2021, 13(12), 1662; doi:10.3390/w13121662

Article: Mechanistic Model and Optimization of the Diclofenac Degradation Kinetic for Ozonation Processes Intensification

Bryan Acosta-Angulo, Jose Lara-Ramos, Jennyfer Diaz-Angulo, Miguel Angel Mueses and Fiderman Machuca-Martínez

Water 2021, 13(12), 1670; doi:10.3390/w13121670

Article: Evaluation of Microbial Contamination of Groundwater under Different Topographic Conditions and Household Water Treatment Systems in Special Region of Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia

Indrastuti, Shinobu Kazama and Satoshi Takizawa

Water 2021, 13(12), 1673; doi:10.3390/w13121673

Article: Design and Evaluation of a Millifluidic Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis (DEP) Retention Device to Separate Bacteria from Tap Water

Shawn Jun, Cherisse Chun, Kacie Ho and Yong Li

Water 2021, 13(12), 1678; doi:10.3390/w13121678

 

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Article: Socio-Economic and Environmental Impact of Nuclear Desalination

Salah Ud-Din Khan and Jamel Orfi

Water 2021, 13(12), 1637; doi:10.3390/w13121637

Article: Coupled Effects of Stress, Moisture Content and Gas Pressure on the Permeability Evolution of Coal Samples: A Case Study of the Coking Coal Resourced from Tunlan Coalmine

Guofu Li, Yi Wang, Junhui Wang, Hongwei Zhang, Wenbin Shen and Han Jiang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1653; doi:10.3390/w13121653

Article: Indigenous Water Ontologies, Hydro-Development and the Human/More-Than-Human Right to Water: A Call for Critical Engagement with Plurilegal Water Realities

Lieselotte Viaene

Water 2021, 13(12), 1660; doi:10.3390/w13121660

Article: Land Use Change Influences Ecosystem Function in Headwater Streams of the Lowland Amazon Basin

Kathi Jo Jankowski, Linda A. Deegan, Christopher Neill, Hillary L. Sullivan, Paulo Ilha, Leonardo Maracahipes-Santos, Nubia Marques and Marcia N. Macedo

Water 2021, 13(12), 1667; doi:10.3390/w13121667

Article: Behaviors and Trends toward Routine Maintenance and Major Repairs of Afridev Handpumps in Rural Malawi

Jonathan P. Truslove, Andrea B. Coulson, Emma Mbalame and Robert M. Kalin

Water 2021, 13(12), 1666; doi:10.3390/w13121666

Article: The Determinants of Access to Sanitation: The Role of Human Rights and the Challenges of Measurement

Rebecca Schiel, Bruce M. Wilson and Malcolm Langford

Water 2021, 13(12), 1676; doi:10.3390/w13121676

Article: An In-Depth Analysis of Physical Blue and Green Water Scarcity in Agriculture in Terms of Causes and Events and Perceived Amenability to Economic Interpretation

Kalomoira Zisopoulou and Dionysia Panagoulia

Water 2021, 13(12), 1693; doi:10.3390/w13121693

Article: A Comparative Study of the Effects of the 1872 Storm and Coastal Flood Risk Management in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden

Caroline Hallin, Jacobus L. A. Hofstede, Grit Martinez, Jürgen Jensen, Nina Baron, Thorsten Heimann, Aart Kroon, Arne Arns, Björn Almström, Per Sørensen and Magnus Larson

Water 2021, 13(12), 1697; doi:10.3390/w13121697

Article: Spatial–Temporal Variations of Total Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Poyang, Dongting and Taihu Lakes from Landsat-8 Data

Wei Shang, Shuanggen Jin, Yang He, Yuanyuan Zhang and Jian Li

Water 2021, 13(12), 1704; doi:10.3390/w13121704

Article: Wastewater Treatment Plants in Mediterranean Spain: An Exploration of Relations between Water Treatments, Water Reuse, and Governance

Paula Rodríguez-Villanueva and David Sauri

Water 2021, 13(12), 1710; doi:10.3390/w13121710

 

Aquatic Systems—Quality and Contamination

Review: Agricultural Conservation Practices and Aquatic Ecological Responses

Richard E. Lizotte, Peter C. Smiley, Robert B. Gillespie and Scott S. Knight

Water 2021, 13(12), 1687; doi:10.3390/w13121687

Article: CO₂ and CH₄ Emissions from an Arid Fluvial Network on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Chun-Ngai Chan, Hongyan Shi, Boyi Liu and Lishan Ran

Water 2021, 13(12), 1614; doi:10.3390/w13121614

Article: Nearshore Fish Species Richness and Species–Habitat Associations in the St. Clair–Detroit River System

Corbin D. Hilling, Jason L. Fischer, Jason Ross, Taaja R. Tucker, Robin L. DeBruyne, Christine M. Mayer and Edward F. Roseman

Water 2021, 13(12), 1616; doi:10.3390/w13121616

Article: TiO₂-Powdered Activated Carbon (TiO₂/PAC) for Removal and Photocatalytic Properties of 2-Methylisoborneol (2-MIB) in Water

Xiao-Pin Guo, Peng Zang, Yong-Mei Li and Dong-Su Bi

Water 2021, 13(12), 1622; doi:10.3390/w13121622

Article: Sediment and Nutrient Retention in Ponds on an Agricultural Stream: Evaluating Effectiveness for Diffuse Pollution Mitigation

John Robotham, Gareth Old, Ponnambalam Rameshwaran, David Sear, David Gasca-Tucker, James Bishop, Joanne Old and David McKnight

Water 2021, 13(12), 1640; doi:10.3390/w13121640

Article: Variations in Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities and Biological Quality in the Aguarico and Coca River Basins in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Santiago Cabrera, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Koen Lock, Marte Vandenbroucke, Tania Oña, Miguel Gualoto, Peter L. M. Goethals and Christine Van der heyden

Water 2021, 13(12), 1692; doi:10.3390/w13121692

Article: New Insights into the Seasonal Variation of DOM Quality of a Humic-Rich Drinking-Water Reservoir—Coupling 2D-Fluorescence and FTICR MS Measurements

Christin Wilske, Peter Herzsprung, Oliver J. Lechtenfeld, Norbert Kamjunke, Jürgen W. Einax and Wolf von Tümpling

Water 2021, 13(12), 1703; doi:10.3390/w13121703

Article: Estimation of the Average Retention Time of Precipitation at the Surface of a Catchment Area for Lake Biwa

Maho Iwaki, Yosuke Yamashiki, Takashi Toda, Chunmeng Jiao and Michio Kumagai

Water 2021, 13(12), 1711; doi:10.3390/w13121711

 

Urban Water Management

Article: A New Evolutionary Approach to Optimal Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Networks

Andrea Ponti, Antonio Candelieri and Francesco Archetti

Water 2021, 13(12), 1625; doi:10.3390/w13121625

Article: Change Point Enhanced Anomaly Detection for IoT Time Series Data

Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Pop and Christian Esposito

Water 2021, 13(12), 1633; doi:10.3390/w13121633

Article: Performance Analysis for Road-Bioretention with Three Types of Curb Inlet Using Numerical Model

Xiaoning Li, Xing Fang, Chuanhai Wang, Gang Chen, Shiwei Zheng and Yue Yu

Water 2021, 13(12), 1643; doi:10.3390/w13121643

Article: Development and Application of a SWMM-Based Simulation Model for Municipal Scale Hydrologic Assessments

Tyler Dell, Mostafa Razzaghmanesh, Sybil Sharvelle and Mazdak Arabi

Water 2021, 13(12), 1644; doi:10.3390/w13121644

Article: Evapotranspiration Measurement and Estimation of Crop Coefficient for Native Plant Species of Green Roof in the Tropics

Ming Fai Chow, Muhammad Fadhlullah Abu Bakar, Jee Khai Wong and Lloyd Ling

Water 2021, 13(12), 1669; doi:10.3390/w13121669

Article: Assessing the Impact of Lining Polluted Streams on Groundwater Quality: A Case Study of the Eastern Nile Delta Aquifer, Egypt

Ismail Abd-Elaty, Abdelrahman M. Said, Gamal M. Abdelaal, Martina Zeleňáková, Jan Jandora and Hany F. Abd-Elhamid

Water 2021, 13(12), 1705; doi:10.3390/w13121705

Article: A Study on Urban Inundation Using SWMM in Busan, Korea, Using Existing Dams and Artificial Underground Waterways

Yeon-Moon Choo, Sang-Bo Sim and Yeon-Woong Choe

Water 2021, 13(12), 1708; doi:10.3390/w13121708

Article: Potential Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in Egypt

Soha M. Mostafa, Osama Wahed, Walaa Y. El-Nashar, Samia M. El-Marsafawy, Martina Zeleňáková and Hany F. Abd-Elhamid

Water 2021, 13(12), 1715; doi:10.3390/w13121715

Editorial: Water Quality Assessments for Urban Water Environment

Pankaj Kumar

Water 2021, 13(12), 1686; doi:10.3390/w13121686

Editorial: Editorial—Modelling of Floods in Urban Areas

Jorge Leandro and James Shucksmith

Water 2021, 13(12), 1689; doi:10.3390/w13121689

 

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Article: Influence of Substrate Material on Flow in Freezing Water Droplets—An Experimental Study

Erik Fagerström, Anna-Lena Ljung, Linn Karlsson and Henrik Lycksam

Water 2021, 13(12), 1628; doi:10.3390/w13121628

Article: Overland Flow Resistance Law under Sparse Stem Vegetation Coverage

Jingzhou Zhang, Shengtang Zhang, Si Chen, Ming Liu, Xuefeng Xu, Jiansen Zhou, Wenjun Wang, Lijun Ma and Chuantao Wang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1657; doi:10.3390/w13121657

Article: Efficient Design of Road Drainage Systems

José Ángel Aranda, Carles Beneyto, Martí Sánchez-Juny and Ernest Bladé

Water 2021, 13(12), 1661; doi:10.3390/w13121661

Article: Hydrodynamic Performance and Design Evolution of Wedge-Shaped Blocks for Dam Protection against Overtopping

Francisco Javier Caballero, Miguel Ángel Toledo, Rafael Moran and Javier San Mauro

Water 2021, 13(12), 1665; doi:10.3390/w13121665

Article: Application of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics to Particular Flow Cases Solved by Saint-Venant Equations

Salman A. M. Fadl-Elmola, Cristian Moisescu Ciocan and Ioana Popescu

Water 2021, 13(12), 1671; doi:10.3390/w13121671

Article: Note on the Application of Transient Wave Packets for Wave–Ice Interaction Experiments

Marco Klein, Moritz Hartmann and Franz von Bock und Polach

Water 2021, 13(12), 1699; doi:10.3390/w13121699

Article: A Study on the Friction Factor and Reynolds Number Relationship for Flow in Smooth and Rough Channels

Yeon-Moon Choo, Jong-Gu Kim and Sang-Ho Park

Water 2021, 13(12), 1714; doi:10.3390/w13121714

 

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Review: Not All Rivers Are Created Equal: The Importance of Spring-Fed Rivers under a Changing Climate

Robert A. Lusardi, Andrew L. Nichols, Ann D. Willis, Carson A. Jeffres, A. Haven Kiers, Erwin E. Van Nieuwenhuyse and Randy A. Dahlgren

Water 2021, 13(12), 1652; doi:10.3390/w13121652

Article: A Perspective for Best Governance of the Bari Canyon Deep-Sea Ecosystems

Lorenzo Angeletti, Gianfranco D’Onghia, Maria del Mar Otero, Antonio Settanni, Maria Teresa Spedicato and Marco Taviani

Water 2021, 13(12), 1646; doi:10.3390/w13121646

Article: Deep Pools: Ecological Sanctuaries for Steindachneridion melanodermatum, a Large Endemic and Endangered Pimelodid of the Iguaçu River

Lucileine de Assumpção, Maristela Cavicchioli Makrakis, Jhony Ferry Mendonça da Silva, Karane Allison Silvestre de Moraes, Suelen Fernanda Ranucci Pini, Patrícia Sarai da Silva, Elaine Antoniassi Luiz Kashiwaqui, Eduardo Gentil, Lenice Souza-Shibatta, Oscar Akio Shibatta and Sergio Makrakis

Water 2021, 13(12), 1700; doi:10.3390/w13121700

 

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Review: Submerged Speleothems and Sea Level Reconstructions: A Global Overview and New Results from the Mediterranean Sea

Fabrizio Antonioli, Stefano Furlani, Paolo Montagna, Paolo Stocchi, Lucio Calcagnile, Gianluca Quarta, Jonathan Cecchinel, Valeria Lo Presti, Maurizio Gasparo Morticelli, Franco Foresta Martin, Edwige Pons-Branchu and Valeria Vaccher

Water 2021, 13(12), 1663; doi:10.3390/w13121663

Review: Current Progress on Marine Microplastics Pollution Research: A Review on Pollution Occurrence, Detection, and Environmental Effects

Fei-Fei Liu, Su-Chun Wang, Zhi-Lin Zhu and Guang-Zhou Liu

Water 2021, 13(12), 1713; doi:10.3390/w13121713

Article: Paleoenvironmental Evolution and Sea Level Change in Saronikos Gulf (Aegean Sea, Greece): Evidence from the Piraeus Coastal Plain and Elefsis Bay Sedimentary Records

Maria V. Triantaphyllou, Theodora Tsourou, Katerina Kouli, Olga Koukousioura, Margarita D. Dimiza, Elina V. Aidona, George Syrides, Varvara Antoniou, Ioannis P. Panagiotopoulos, Dimitris Vandarakis, Aggelos Pallikarakis, Sofia Cheilaris, Elisavet Skampa, Jean-Philippe Goiran, Eric Fouache and Kosmas P. Pavlopoulos

Water 2021, 13(12), 1621; doi:10.3390/w13121621

Article: Different Roles of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes in the Distribution of Size-Fractionated Phytoplankton in Gwangyang Bay

Yoonja Kang and Yeongji Oh

Water 2021, 13(12), 1682; doi:10.3390/w13121682

Article: A Numerical Study on Impacts of Sediment Erosion/Deposition on Debris Flow Propagation

Abiola Abraham Adebiyi and Peng Hu

Water 2021, 13(12), 1698; doi:10.3390/w13121698

Article: Projecting Relative Sea Level Rise under Climate Change at the Phrachula Chomklao Fort Tide Gauge in the Upper Gulf of Thailand

Chirayu Jaroenongard, Mukand S. Babel, Sangam Shrestha, Sutat Weesakul, Vilas Nitivattananon and Dibesh Khadka

Water 2021, 13(12), 1702; doi:10.3390/w13121702

 

Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture

Article: Fluoride Polluted Groundwaters in Calabria Region (Southern Italy): Natural Source and Remediation

Ilaria Fuoco, Carmine Apollaro, Alessandra Criscuoli, Rosanna De Rosa, Svetlozar Velizarov and Alberto Figoli

Water 2021, 13(12), 1626; doi:10.3390/w13121626

Article: Estimating Surface and Groundwater Irrigation Potential under Different Conservation Agricultural Practices and Irrigation Systems in the Ethiopian Highlands

Abdu Y. Yimam, Tewodros T. Assefa, Feleke K. Sishu, Seifu A. Tilahun, Manuel R. Reyes and P.V. Vara Prasad

Water 2021, 13(12), 1645; doi:10.3390/w13121645

Article: Study on the Pricing of Water Rights Transaction between Irrigation Water Users Based on Cooperative Game in China

Xinjian Guan, Qiongying Du, Wenge Zhang and Baoyong Wang

Water 2021, 13(12), 1672; doi:10.3390/w13121672

 

Special Issues Open for Submissions

Natural Ecosystems Management and Mountain Engineering Works as Tools for Runoff and Sediment Yield Control
(Deadline: 4 July 2021)

Geo-Environmental Approaches for the Analysis and Assessment of Groundwater Resources at Catchment-Scale
(Deadline: 5 July 2021)

Analytical Separation Techniques Coupled to Mass Spectrometry for Detection of Some Chemicals and Their Metabolites in Water
(Deadline: 8 July 2021)

Hydrology and Sedimentology of Hilly and Mountainous Landscapes
(Deadline: 10 July 2021)

Crop Water Stress and Deficit Irrigation
(Deadline: 15 July 2021)

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Water Policy Collection

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Recent Special Issue Reprints

Rainfall Thresholds and Other Approaches for Landslide Prediction and Early Warning
Samuele Segoni, Stefano Luigi Gariano and Ascanio Rosi (Eds.)
ISBN 978-3-0365-0930-3 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-0931-0 (PDF)
doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0931-0

Urbanization under a Changing Climate
Jianxun (Jennifer) He, Caterina Valeo and K.S. Kasiviswanathan (Eds.)
ISBN 978-3-0365-0810-8 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-0811-5 (PDF)
doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0811-5

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 (Eds.)
ISBN 978-3-0365-1022-4 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-1023-1 (PDF)
doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-1023-1

Interaction between Waves and Maritime Structures
Mariano Buccino and Luca Martinelli (Eds.)
ISBN 978-3-0365-0624-1 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-0625-8 (PDF)
doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0625-8

Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) Method Current Applications, Remaining Challenges, and Future Perspectives
Konstantinos X. Soulis (Ed.)
ISBN 978-3-0365-0820-7 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-0821-4 (PDF)
doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0821-4

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