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Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 13 (July-1 2024) – 176 articles

Water, Volume 16, Issue 13 (July-1 2024) 176 Articles

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Article: Future Water: A Multi-University International Web Seminar

Michael Pointl, João Marques, Frances C. Pick, Camilo Salcedo, Ina Vertommen, Mohamad Zeidan, Joby Boxall, Maria C. Cunha, Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch, Donghwi Jung, Avi Ostfeld, Juan Saldarriaga and Kevin E. Lansey

Water 2024, 16(13), 1862; DOI: 10.3390/w16131862

Water and One Health

Article: Water Scarcity and Risk of Acute Gastrointestinal Infections in Mexican Households: A Latent Class Analysis

Gerzaín Avilés-Polanco, Luis Felipe Beltrán-Morales, Adriana Miranda-Torres and Enrique Troyo-Diéguez

Water 2024, 16(13), 1884; DOI: 10.3390/w16131884

Water-Energy Nexus

Article: The Effects of Ocean Governance on Marine Economic Development from an Environmental Optimization Perspective

Kuan Hong and Xin Guan

Water 2024, 16(13), 1900; DOI: 10.3390/w16131900

New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences

Review: Advancing Hydrology through Machine Learning: Insights, Challenges, and Future Directions Using the CAMELS, Caravan, GRDC, CHIRPS, PERSIANN, NLDAS, GLDAS, and GRACE Datasets

Fahad Hasan, Paul Medley, Jason Drake and Gang Chen

Water 2024, 16(13), 1904; DOI: 10.3390/w16131904

 

Article: Evaluation of Optimization Algorithms for Measurement of Suspended Solids

Daniela Lopez-Betancur, Efrén González-Ramírez, Carlos Guerrero-Mendez, Tonatiuh Saucedo-Anaya, Martín Montes Rivera, Edith Olmos-Trujillo and Salvador Gomez Jimenez

Water 2024, 16(13), 1761; DOI: 10.3390/w16131761

 

Article: Experimental Study for the Matching of Explosives and Rocks Based on Rock Hydrophysical Properties

Zhaozhen Zhu and Zhiyong Zhou

Water 2024, 16(13), 1807; DOI: 10.3390/w16131807

 

Article: An Underwater Image Enhancement Method Based on Diffusion Model Using Dual-Layer Attention Mechanism

Hong Zhang, Ran He and Wei Fang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1813; DOI: 10.3390/w16131813

 

Article: Extension Mechanism of Water-Conducting Cracks in the Thick and Hard Overlying Strata of Coal Mining Face

Dong Wei, Helong Gu, Chungang Wang, Hao Wang, Haoyu Zhu and Yuyang Guo

Water 2024, 16(13), 1883; DOI: 10.3390/w16131883

Hydrogeology

Review: The Characteristics and Application of Deuterium and Oxygen Isotopes to Karst Groundwater, Southwest China

Mi Tang, Shi Yu, Shaohong You and Pingping Jiang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1812; DOI: 10.3390/w16131812

 

Article: Risk Assessment and Control for Geohazards at Multiple Scales: An Insight from the West Han River of Gansu Province in China

Zhennan Ye, Yuntao Tian, Hao Li, Changqing Shao, Youlong Gao and Gaofeng Wang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1764; DOI: 10.3390/w16131764

 

Article: Application of Variable Weight Theory in the Suitability Evaluation of Regional Shallow Geothermal Energy Development

Ruifeng Wang, Mingchuan Shi, Yanliang Zhai, Ke Zhu, Lei Zhao, Chenhui Liu, Guohong Yan and Zhiqiang Yin

Water 2024, 16(13), 1769; DOI: 10.3390/w16131769

 

Article: The Hydrogeochemical Processes of Groundwater in the Bieletan Area, the Western Potash Production Region in China

Rui Duan, Liang Chang, Xiaofan Gu, Xiaodeng Li, Xiangzhi You, Qunhui Zhang and Qian Wang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1833; DOI: 10.3390/w16131833

 

Article: Effects of Coal Mining Activities on the Changes in Microbial Community and Geochemical Characteristics in Different Functional Zones of a Deep Underground Coal Mine

Zhimin Xu, Li Zhang, Yating Gao, Xianfeng Tan, Yajun Sun and Weixiao Chen

Water 2024, 16(13), 1836; DOI: 10.3390/w16131836

 

Article: Evaluation of Coal-Seam Roof-Water Richness Based on Improved Weight Method: A Case Study in the Dananhu No.7 Coal Mine, China

Jie Xu, Qiqing Wang, Yuguang Zhang, Wenping Li and Xiaoqin Li

Water 2024, 16(13), 1847; DOI: 10.3390/w16131847

 

Article: Hydraulic Conductivity Estimation: Comparison of Empirical Formulas Based on New Laboratory Experiments

Mohammad Reza Goodarzi, Majid Vazirian and Majid Niazkar

Water 2024, 16(13), 1854; DOI: 10.3390/w16131854

 

Article: Predicting Water Inflow in Tunnel Construction: A Fracture Network Model with Non-Darcy Flow Considerations

Ke Hu, Liang Yao, Jianxing Liao, Hong Wang, Jiashun Luo and Xiangdong Xu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1885; DOI: 10.3390/w16131885

 

Article: Groundwater Contamination Source Recognition Based on a Two-Stage Inversion Framework with a Deep Learning Surrogate

Zibo Wang and Wenxi Lu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1907; DOI: 10.3390/w16131907

 

Article: Hydrochemical Characteristics and Water Quality Evaluation of Groundwater in the Luohe Formation of Binchang Mining Area, China

Xu Wang, Kui Sun, Wanchao Ma, Jie Peng, Ruiping Liu, Jianping Chen, Kun Zhang, Shuai Gao, Cheng Li and Penghua Zhang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1913; DOI: 10.3390/w16131913

 

Article: Exploring Methane Capture Potential in Alkaline Coal Mine Drainage: Insight from the Microbial Community Structure and Function Analysis

Yuan Li, Zhan Su, Wei Xiu, Lin Huang, Taiyu Huang and Jieming Zheng

Water 2024, 16(13), 1915; DOI: 10.3390/w16131915

 

Article: Flash Flood Potential Analysis and Hazard Mapping of Wadi Mujib Using GIS and Hydrological Modelling Approach

Moayyad Shawaqfah, Yazan Ababneh, Alhaj-Saleh A. Odat, Fares AlMomani, Alaa Alomush, Fayez Abdullah and Hatem H. Almasaeid

Water 2024, 16(13), 1918; DOI: 10.3390/w16131918

 

Article: Subsurface Hydrodynamics of the Southeastern Taoudéni Basin (West Africa) through Hydrogeochemistry and Isotopy

Succès Malundama Kutangila, Moussa Bruno Kafando, Amadou Keita, Lawani Adjadi Mounirou, Roland Yonaba, Mahamadi Ouedraogo and Mahamadou Koita

Water 2024, 16(13), 1922; DOI: 10.3390/w16131922

Soil and Water

Review: Agricultural and Technology-Based Strategies to Improve Water-Use Efficiency in Arid and Semiarid Areas

Saif Alharbi, Abrar Felemban, Ahmed Abdelrahim and Mohammed Al-Dakhil

Water 2024, 16(13), 1842; DOI: 10.3390/w16131842

 

Review: Water Dams: From Ancient to Present Times and into the Future

Andreas N. Angelakis, Alper Baba, Mohammad Valipour, Jörg Dietrich, Elahe Fallah-Mehdipour, Jens Krasilnikoff, Esra Bilgic, Cees Passchier, Vasileios A. Tzanakakis, Rohitashw Kumar, Zhang Min, Nicholas Dercas and Abdelkader T. Ahmed

Water 2024, 16(13), 1889; DOI: 10.3390/w16131889

 

Article: Changing Soil Water Content: Main Trigger of the Multi-Phase Mobilization and Transformation of Petroleum Pollution Components—Insights from the Batch Experiments

Mingxing Yang, Bing Wang, Yubo Xia, Yan Qiu, Chunling Li and Zhendong Cao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1775; DOI: 10.3390/w16131775

 

Article: Seepage and Stability Analysis of Earth Dams’ Downstream Slopes, Considering Hysteresis in Soil–Water Characteristic Curves under Reservoir Water Level Fluctuations

Guodong Liu, Zhijun Zhou, Jiarong Zhang, Guan Jiang and Wenjing Mi

Water 2024, 16(13), 1811; DOI: 10.3390/w16131811

 

Article: The Recycling Characteristics of Different Silicon Forms and Biogenic Silicon in the Surface Sediments of Dianchi Lake, Southwest China

Yong Liu, Jv Liu, Guoli Xu, Jingfu Wang, Kai Xu, Zuxue Jin and Guojia Huang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1824; DOI: 10.3390/w16131824

 

Article: Preliminary Experiences in Determining the Soil–Water Characteristic Curve of a Sandy Soil Using Physical Slope Modeling

Josip Peranić, Martina Vivoda Prodan, Rea Škuflić and Željko Arbanas

Water 2024, 16(13), 1859; DOI: 10.3390/w16131859

 

Article: Irrigation and Agricultural Opportunities: Evaluating Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Suitability and Productivity in Lebanon

Rhend Sleiman, Jocelyne Adjizian Gerard, Salim Fahed, Mladen Todorovic, Mohamed Houssemeddine Sellami, Rossella Albrizio and Marie Therese Abi Saab

Water 2024, 16(13), 1865; DOI: 10.3390/w16131865

 

Article: Bioremediation of Cd-Contaminated Soil around Bauxite with Stimulants and Microorganisms

Luxuan Feng, Xiaofeng Chen, Jinghua Yao, Lei Xiao, Xiujuan Feng and Shengmin Wu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1910; DOI: 10.3390/w16131910

 

Article: Assessment of Soil Wind Erosion and Population Exposure Risk in Central Asia’s Terminal Lake Basins

Wei Yu, Xiaofei Ma, Wei Yan and Yonghui Wang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1911; DOI: 10.3390/w16131911

 

Article: Distribution and Comprehensive Risk Evaluation of Cr, Cd, Fe, Zn, and Pb from Al Lith Coastal Seawater, Saudi Arabia

Talal Alharbi, Abdelbaset S. El-Sorogy and Khaled Al-Kahtany

Water 2024, 16(13), 1923; DOI: 10.3390/w16131923

 

Article: Green Infrastructure Microbial Community Response to Simulated Pulse Precipitation Events in the Semi-Arid Western United States

Yvette D. Hastings, Rose M. Smith, Kyra A. Mann, Simon Brewer, Ramesh Goel, Sarah Jack Hinners and Jennifer Follstad Shah

Water 2024, 16(13), 1931; DOI: 10.3390/w16131931

Water and Climate Change

Article: Interactive Changes in Climatic and Hydrological Droughts, Water Quality, and Land Use/Cover of Tajan Watershed, Northern Iran

Mohammadtaghi Avand, Hamid Reza Moradi and Zeinab Hazbavi

Water 2024, 16(13), 1784; DOI: 10.3390/w16131784

 

Article: Managing Agricultural Water Resources in the Southern Region: Perspectives of Crop Growers

Megan Donovan, Christina Chanes, Drew Gholson, Davie M. Kadyampakeni, Marilyn E. Swisher and Tiffany Connor

Water 2024, 16(13), 1841; DOI: 10.3390/w16131841

 

Article: Assessment of Flood Hazard Mapping Using a DEM-Based Approach and 2D Hydrodynamic Modeling

Omayma Amellah, Paolo Mignosa, Federico Prost and Francesca Aureli

Water 2024, 16(13), 1844; DOI: 10.3390/w16131844

 

Article: Improving Flood Forecasting Skill by Combining Ensemble Precipitation Forecasts and Multiple Hydrological Models in a Mountainous Basin

Yiheng Xiang, Tao Peng, Haixia Qi, Zhiyuan Yin and Tieyuan Shen

Water 2024, 16(13), 1887; DOI: 10.3390/w16131887

 

Article: Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Rainfall Forecasting: A High-Resolution Grid Analysis

Nurnabi Meherul Alam, Sabyasachi Mitra, Surendra Kumar Pandey, Chayna Jana, Mrinmoy Ray, Sourav Ghosh, Sonali Paul Mazumdar, S. Vishnu Shankar, Ritesh Saha and Gouranga Kar

Water 2024, 16(13), 1891; DOI: 10.3390/w16131891

 

Article: Projection of Changes in Rainfall and Drought Based on CMIP6 Scenarios on the Ca River Basin, Vietnam

Ju-Young Shin, Pham Van Chien, Myoung-Jin Um, Hanbeen Kim and Kyungmin Sung

Water 2024, 16(13), 1914; DOI: 10.3390/w16131914

 

Article: Assessment of Changes in Hydrometeorological Indicators and Intra-Annual River Runoff in the Ile River Basin

Rustam G. Abdrakhimov, Aigul N. Akzharkynova, Javier Rodrigo-Ilarri, Kh Md Nahiduzzaman, Makpal E. Dautaliyeva and María-Elena Rodrigo-Clavero

Water 2024, 16(13), 1921; DOI: 10.3390/w16131921

Hydrology

Article: Flood Risk Assessment Using Multi-Criteria Spatial Analysis Case Study: Gilort River between Bălcești and Bolbocești

Alexandru Giurea, Laura Comănescu, Robert Dobre, Alexandru Nedelea and Ioana Mirea

Water 2024, 16(13), 1760; DOI: 10.3390/w16131760

 

Article: Analyzing the Mitigation Effect of Urban River Channel Flood Diversion on Waterlogging Disasters Based on Deep Learning

Qingzhen Sun, Dehua Zhu, Zhaoyang Zhang and Jingbo Xu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1771; DOI: 10.3390/w16131771

 

Article: Multivariate Validation at Multistation of Distributed Watershed Hydrological Modeling Based on Multisource Data on Chinese Loess Plateau

Peiling Liu, Dengfeng Liu, Mohd Yawar Ali Khan, Xudong Zheng, Yun Hu, Guanghui Ming and Man Gao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1823; DOI: 10.3390/w16131823

 

Article: Impact of Human Development on the Phenomenon of Surface Runoff Crossing Adjacent Watershed Boundaries

WeiCheng Lo, Chang-Mien Wang, Chih-Tsung Huang and Meng-Hsuan Wu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1831; DOI: 10.3390/w16131831

 

Article: Analysis of the Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Origins of Groundwater in the Changbai Mountain Region via Inverse Hydrogeochemical Modeling and Unsupervised Machine Learning

Yi Liu, Mingqian Li, Ying Zhang, Xiaofang Wu and Chaoyu Zhang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1853; DOI: 10.3390/w16131853

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: Elimination of Residual Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) in a Low-Temperature Post-Denitrifying Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR)

Stephan Leonhard, Marc Wichern and Rita Hilliges

Water 2024, 16(13), 1829; DOI: 10.3390/w16131829

 

Review: Research Progress on the Removal of Contaminants from Wastewater by Constructed Wetland Substrate: A Review

Liyan Wang, Leihui Ma, Junke Wang, Xia Zhao, Yushu Jing, Changqing Liu, Yihua Xiao, Cang Li, Chen Jiao and Mengchen Xu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1848; DOI: 10.3390/w16131848

Review: The Status of Research on the Root Exudates of Submerged Plants and Their Effects on Aquatic Organisms

Yahan Shi, Xu Zhang, Min Zhao, Xiangyong Zheng, Jianya Gu, Zhiquan Wang, Chunzhen Fan and Wenwen Gu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1920; DOI: 10.3390/w16131920

Review: Systematic Review of Poultry Slaughterhouse Wastewater Treatment: Unveiling the Potential of Nanobubble Technology

Ephraim Kaskote, Moses Basitere, Vusi Vincent Mshayisa and Marshall Sheerene Sheldon

Water 2024, 16(13), 1933; DOI: 10.3390/w16131933

Article: Construction of Genetically Engineered Escherichia coli Cell Factory for Enhanced Cadmium Bioaccumulation in Wastewater

Lingna Tian, Daiwei Wang, Yueying Liu, Mingjie Wei, Xuexue Han, Xiaomei Sun, Liang Yin and Guanghong Luo

Water 2024, 16(13), 1759; DOI: 10.3390/w16131759

Article: Enhancing Oil–Water Separation Efficiency with WO₃/MXene Composite Membrane

Abdelfattah Amari, Haitham Osman, Mohamed Boujelbene, Maha Khalid Abdulameer, Miklas Scholz and Saad Sh. Sammen

Water 2024, 16(13), 1767; DOI: 10.3390/w16131767

Article: A Comparative Performance Assessment of the Integrated Upflow and Surface Flow-Based Constructed Wetlands Dosed with Landfill Leachate: Electrode Coupling and Input Load Variation

Tanveer Saeed

Water 2024, 16(13), 1776; DOI: 10.3390/w16131776

Article: Tequila Vinasse Treatment in Two Types of Vertical Downflow Treatment Wetlands (with Emergent Vegetation and Ligninolytic Fungi)

Anderson A. Ramírez-Ramírez, Juan A. Lozano-Álvarez, Melesio Gutiérrez-Lomelí and Florentina Zurita

Water 2024, 16(13), 1778; DOI: 10.3390/w16131778

Article: Integrated Struvite Precipitation and Fenton Oxidation for Nutrient Recovery and Refractory Organic Removal in Palm Oil Mill Effluent

Yi Fen Sea, Adeline Seak May Chua, Gek Cheng Ngoh and Mohamad Fairus Rabuni

Water 2024, 16(13), 1788; DOI: 10.3390/w16131788

Article: Impact of Gas-to-Water Ratio on Treatment Efficiency of Submerged-Macrophyte Constructed Wetland Systems

Hongming Mao, Shiwen Lu, Guiying Huang, Xianle Jia, Chenqian Bao, Xinyi Yan, Xiangyong Zheng, Min Zhao and Zhan Jin

Water 2024, 16(13), 1790; DOI: 10.3390/w16131790

Article: Structural Evolution of Mn-Substituted FeOOH and Its Adsorption Mechanism for U(VI): Effect of the Mole Ratio of Mn/(Fe + Mn)

Mengxue Li, Lanbao Zhu, Jing Wang, Li Ma, Zhengwei Pan, Wenwei Ji, Xiaoyu Sun, Ruping Li, Xia Li, Shilong Duan and Yule Tao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1795; DOI: 10.3390/w16131795

Article: Operation Status and Effective Operation Management Model for On-Site Swine Wastewater Treatment Facilities

Jae-Hong Park, Eu-Gene Chung, Eun-Hye Na and Yong-Seok Kim

Water 2024, 16(13), 1794; DOI: 10.3390/w16131794

Article: Process Energy and Material Consumption Determined by Reaction Sequence: From AAO to OHO

Xuguang He, Xiong Ke, Tuo Wei, Yao Chen, Zhi Qin, Acong Chen, Heng Zhang, Hua Huang, Yudi Yang, Guanglei Qiu, Haizhen Wu and Chaohai Wei

Water 2024, 16(13), 1796; DOI: 10.3390/w16131796

Article: Efficient Degradation of Untreated Complex Cellulosic Substrates by Newly Isolated Aerobic Paenibacillus Species

Ravi Shankar Yadav, Pragati, Weihua He, Chao Li, Juhi Mishra and Yujie Feng

Water 2024, 16(13), 1800; DOI: 10.3390/w16131800

Article: Characteristics of Nitrogen Removal and Functional Gene Transcription of Heterotrophic Nitrification-Aerobic Denitrification Strain, Acinetobacter sp. JQ1004

Liangang Hou, Feng Huang, Zhengwei Pan, Wei Chen and Xiujie Wang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1799; DOI: 10.3390/w16131799

Article: Degradation of Azo Dye Orange II Using BiOI/HKUST-1 Activated Persulfate under Visible Light Irradiation

Shumeng Zhang, Rui Wang, Xianxiong Cheng, Junfeng Lian, Xin Liu and Jiahua Tang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1805; DOI: 10.3390/w16131805

Article: Synthesis of Fe-Loaded Biochar Obtained from Rape Straw for Enhanced Degradation of Emerging Contaminant Antibiotic Metronidazole

Dongyuan Zhang, Lin Shi, Edwin Hena Dawolo, Bingfa Chen, Ning Ding and Hong Liu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1822; DOI: 10.3390/w16131822

Article: A CFD Study on Optimization of Mass Transfer and Light Distribution in a Photocatalytic Reactor with Immobilized Photocatalyst on Spheres

Qasim Jamil, Khush Bakhat Rana and Lev Matoh

Water 2024, 16(13), 1828; DOI: 10.3390/w16131828

Article: Producing Efficient Adsorbents from Kraft Lignin for the Removal of Contaminants from Water—A Full Factorial Design

Tayra R. Brazil, Érika M. L. Sousa, Erick G. R. dos Anjos, Nayara K. Moura, Luciana S. Rocha, Vânia Calisto, Maraísa Gonçalves and Mirabel C. Rezende

Water 2024, 16(13), 1838; DOI: 10.3390/w16131838

Article: Removal of Glyphosate with Nanocellulose for Decontamination Purposes in Aquatic Systems

Suzan da Silva Lessa, Blenda Lopes Orsi, Luciana Camargo de Oliveira, Wander Gustavo Botero, Paulo Sergio Tonello and Danielle Goveia

Water 2024, 16(13), 1843; DOI: 10.3390/w16131843

Article: Effective Removal of Malachite Green Dye from Water Using Low-Cost Porous Organic Polymers: Adsorption Kinetics, Isotherms, and Reusability Studies

Saad Melhi, Ayoub Abdullah Alqadami, Eid H. Alosaimi, Gehan M. Ibrahim, Belal El-Gammal, Mahmoud A. Bedair and Elsayed M. Elnaggar

Water 2024, 16(13), 1869; DOI: 10.3390/w16131869

Article: Enhanced Adsorption of Aqueous Pb(II) by Acidic Group-Modified Biochar Derived from Peanut Shells

Yumeng Wu, Ci Li, Zhimiao Wang, Fang Li, Jing Li, Wei Xue and Xinqiang Zhao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1871; DOI: 10.3390/w16131871

Article: Assessing the Efficiency of Microalgae in the Removal of Salicylic Acid from Contaminated Water: Insights from Zebrafish Embryo Toxicity Tests

Carla Escapa, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Moonis Ali Khan, Teresa Neuparth, Miguel Machado Santos and Marta Otero

Water 2024, 16(13), 1874; DOI: 10.3390/w16131874

Article: Performance Assessment of Rural Decentralized Domestic Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Foshan, China

Minru Liu, Zhenrong Lin, Jiajie Li, Mingtian Zhu, Zhihua Tang and Kai Li

Water 2024, 16(13), 1901; DOI: 10.3390/w16131901

Article: Cadmium Removal by Adsorption on Biochars Derived from Wood Industry and Craft Beer Production Wastes

Daiana Simón, Cristina Palet and Adrián Cristóbal

Water 2024, 16(13), 1905; DOI: 10.3390/w16131905

Article: Mechanism of Biological Transport and Transformation of Copper, Cadmium, and Zinc in Water by Chlorella

Shaomin Liu, Mengyu Jiang, Jiating Wu, Xiaofeng Li and Jinglin Zhu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1906; DOI: 10.3390/w16131906

Article: Enhanced Remediation of Lead and Cadmium by the Co-System of Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria Immobilized on Goethite-Modified Biochar

Gongduan Fan, Junhou Zhou, Xingfeng Cao, Wu You, Chen Lin, Jing Luo, Jianyong Zou, Kai-Qin Xu and Quanda Luo

Water 2024, 16(13), 1917; DOI: 10.3390/w16131917

Article: An Integrated Process of Struvite Precipitation/Membrane Filtration Using Flat Ceramic Membranes Is an Effective Method for the Treatment of Liquid Fraction Digestate from a Municipal Biogas Plant

Agnieszka Urbanowska and Izabela Polowczyk

Water 2024, 16(13), 1928; DOI: 10.3390/w16131928

Editorial: Water, Wastewater, Waste Management in Agriculture and Agri-Food Industry

Wojciech Czekała and Jakub Pulka

Water 2024, 16(13), 1817; DOI: 10.3390/w16131817

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Review: Review of the Water–Land–Food–Carbon Nexus Focused on Regional Low-Carbon and High-Quality Agricultural Development

Caiyun Deng, Tianhe Xu, Li Zhang, Siqi Yang, Huiying Yin, Jian Guo, Lulu Si, Ran Kang and Hermann Josef Kaufmann

Water 2024, 16(13), 1770; DOI: 10.3390/w16131770

Article: Investigate the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Drought and Its Interaction with Atmospheric Circulation in the Yellow River Middle Basin

Yuanxin Dai, Jinlong Dong, Yingnan Wei, Mengyuan Xu, Tehseen Javed, Olusola Olaitan Ayantobo, Ning Yao and Bao Hu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1786; DOI: 10.3390/w16131786

Article: Innovative Adaptive Multiscale 3D Simulation Platform for the Yellow River Using Sphere Geodesic Octree Grid Techniques

Bingxuan Li, Jinxin Wang, Yan Zhang and Yongkang Sun

Water 2024, 16(13), 1791; DOI: 10.3390/w16131791

Article: La Marina Baja Water Consortium (1950–1978): Hydro-Economic Model of Water Governance behind Tourism Development in Benidorm (Spain)

César Sánchez-Pérez, María-Inmaculada López-Ortiz and Patricia Fernández-Aracil

Water 2024, 16(13), 1832; DOI: 10.3390/w16131832

Article: The Factors Affecting Stability and Durability of Flow Diversion Simple Weirs in Muchinga Province of Zambia

Alex Lushikanda Kabwe, Masahiro Hyodo, Hidehiko Ogata, Yoshihiro Sagawa, Yoshinao Adachi and Masayuki Ishii

Water 2024, 16(13), 1852; DOI: 10.3390/w16131852

Article: Modelling Current-State N- and P-Fluxes into Surface Waters in Germany

Björn Tetzlaff, Ralf Kunkel, Max Eysholdt, Hong Hanh Nguyen, Markus Venohr, Tim Wolters, Maximilian Zinnbauer and Frank Wendland

Water 2024, 16(13), 1872; DOI: 10.3390/w16131872

Article: Development of a Constructed Wetland for Greywater Treatment for Reuse in Arid Regions: Case Study in Rural Burkina Faso

Ynoussa Maiga, Cheik Omar Tidiane Compaoré, Martine Diallo/Koné, Seyram Kossi Sossou, Hermann YempalaSomé, Mamady Sawadogo, Issa Nagalo, James R. Mihelcic and Aboubakar Sidiki Ouattara

Water 2024, 16(13), 1927; DOI: 10.3390/w16131927

 

Water Quality and Contamination

Review: Bibliometric Analysis of Trends and Research Progress in Acid Mine Drainage Remediation from 1990 to 2023

Zhonghong Li, Fei Sun, Weilong Jiang, Xiaoguang Li, Jingqiu Jiang, Fangyuan Jin, Jinxia Lu and Fang Yang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1826; DOI: 10.3390/w16131826

Review: Influencing Factors for the Growth of Cladophora and Its Cell Damage and Destruction Mechanism: Implication for Prevention and Treatment

Yuyao Wang, Kuo Wang, Xiaojie Bing, Yidan Tan, Qihao Zhou, Juan Jiang and Yuanrong Zhu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1890; DOI: 10.3390/w16131890

Article: Molecular Fingerprinting of the Biodegradation of Petroleum Organic Pollutants in Groundwater and under Site-Specific Environmental Impacts

Mingxing Yang, Yuesuo Yang, Xinyao Yang, Xiaoming Song, Xinqiang Du and Ying Lu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1773; DOI: 10.3390/w16131773

Article: Drinking Water Quality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ali A. Al-Hamzah and Christopher M. Fellows

Water 2024, 16(13), 1810; DOI: 10.3390/w16131810

Article: Vertical Distribution Patterns of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Soil Solution: Insights from a Wetland Trial Site in the Li River Basin

Chunjin Gong, Junlei Han, Junfeng Dai, Rui Xia, Zupeng Wan, Shuaipu Zhang and Jingxuan Xu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1830; DOI: 10.3390/w16131830

Article: Iron Contamination in Groundwater: Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques in Egypt’s New Valley

Ehdaa A. M. Abed, Khalid A. N. Alaboudi, Mohamed H. H. Abbas, Tamer M. S. Attia and Ahmed A. Abdelhafez

Water 2024, 16(13), 1834; DOI: 10.3390/w16131834

Article: Ecological and Health Risk Assessment of Nitrates and Heavy Metals in the Groundwater of the Alluvial Area of the Danube River near Kostolac Basin, Serbia

Gordana Devic, Marija Pergal and Miodrag Pergal

Water 2024, 16(13), 1839; DOI: 10.3390/w16131839

Article: Bacterioplankton Community Diversity of a Portuguese Aquifer System (Maciço Calcário Estremenho)

Daniela R. de Figueiredo, Maria T. Condesso de Melo, Pedro P. Saraiva, Joana Oliveira, Ana M. M. Gonçalves, Ana Sofia P. S. Reboleira, Ana R. M. Polónia, Nelson Abrantes and Daniel F. R. Cleary

Water 2024, 16(13), 1858; DOI: 10.3390/w16131858

Article: Spatial–Temporal and Risk Assessment of Microplastics in the Surface Water of the Qinhuai River during Different Rainfall Seasons in Nanjing City, China

Luming Wang, Juan Huang, Yufeng Wu, Xuan Chen, Ming Chen, Hui Jin, Jiawei Yao and Xinyue Wang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1857; DOI: 10.3390/w16131857

Article: Dual Domain Decomposition Method for High-Resolution 3D Simulation of Groundwater Flow and Transport

Hao Deng, Jiaxin Li, Jixian Huang, Yanhong Zou, Yu Liu, Yuxiang Chen, Yang Zheng and Xiancheng Mao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1864; DOI: 10.3390/w16131864

Article: Under the Strong Influence of Human Activities: The Patterns and Controlling Factors of River Water Chemistry Changes—A Case Study of the Lower Yellow River

Chaobin Ren and Lu Liu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1886; DOI: 10.3390/w16131886

Article: Mesocosm Experiment to Evaluate Relations between Chlorophyll-a Concentration and Water Surface Reflectance in an Anthropogenic Reservoir

Łukasz Pierzchała

Water 2024, 16(13), 1926; DOI: 10.3390/w16131926

Urban Water Management

Review: Evolution of Flood Prediction and Forecasting Models for Flood Early Warning Systems: A Scoping Review

Nicholas Byaruhanga, Daniel Kibirige, Shaeden Gokool and Glen Mkhonta

Water 2024, 16(13), 1763; DOI: 10.3390/w16131763

Review: Sustainable Management of Water Resources for Drinking Water Supply by Exploring Nanotechnology

Tri Partono Adhi, Giovanni Arneldi Sumampouw, Daniel Pramudita, Arti Munandari, Irwan Kurnia, Wan Hanna Melini Wan Mohtar and Antonius Indarto

Water 2024, 16(13), 1896; DOI: 10.3390/w16131896

Article: Novel Implications of the PARAFAC Model for Characterizing and Distributing DOM in Groundwater Networks by Using Spectroscopic Techniques

Yousef Alhaj Hamoud, Abdullah Maqsood, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Hiba Shaghaleh, Amna Sahar, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan, Hesham F. Alharby, Refaat A. Abohassan and Awatif M. Abdulmajeed

Water 2024, 16(13), 1768; DOI: 10.3390/w16131768

Article: Rainwater Harvesting Site Selection for Drought-Prone Areas in Somali and Borena Zones, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia: A Geospatial and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Amanuel Kumsa Bojer, Desta Jula Bekalo, Taye Girma Debelee, Saralees Nadarajah and Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

Water 2024, 16(13), 1789; DOI: 10.3390/w16131789

Article: Predicting Urban Water Consumption and Health Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Tanganyika Lake, East Africa

Alain Niyongabo, Danrong Zhang, Yiqing Guan, Ziyuan Wang, Muhammad Imran, Bertrand Nicayenzi, Alemayehu Kabeta Guyasa and Pascal Hatungimana

Water 2024, 16(13), 1793; DOI: 10.3390/w16131793

Article: Behaviour and Peculiarities of Oil Hydrocarbon Removal from Rain Garden Structures

Maryna Kravchenko, Yuliia Trach, Roman Trach, Tetiana Tkachenko and Viktor Mileikovskyi

Water 2024, 16(13), 1802; DOI: 10.3390/w16131802

Article: Designing Effective Low-Impact Developments for a Changing Climate: A HYDRUS-Based Vadose Zone Modeling Approach

Satbir Guram and Rashid Bashir

Water 2024, 16(13), 1803; DOI: 10.3390/w16131803

Article: Water Supply Security—Risk Management Instruments in Water Supply Companies

Felix Heumer, Thomas Grischek and Jens Tränckner

Water 2024, 16(13), 1814; DOI: 10.3390/w16131814

Article: Sustainable Water Service Tariff Model for Integrated Watershed Management: A Case Study in the Ecuadorian Andes

Fernando Granda-Aguilar, Holger Manuel Benavides-Muñoz, Juan Arteaga-Marín, Priscilla Massa-Sánchez and Pablo Ochoa-Cueva

Water 2024, 16(13), 1816; DOI: 10.3390/w16131816

Article: Multi-Stage Optimization of Drainage Systems for Integrated Grey–Green Infrastructure under Backward Planning

Chuanhao Sun, Qiuyi Rao, Mo Wang, Yulu Liu, Ziheng Xiong, Jiayu Zhao, Chengliang Fan, Muhammad Adnan Ikram Rana, Jianjun Li and Menghan Zhang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1825; DOI: 10.3390/w16131825

Article: Residents’ Perception of Urban Water System-Based Environmental Issues

Zerrin Kenanoğlu, Emine Malkoç True, Çiğdem Kılıçaslan Deniz, Bülent Deniz and Merve Özeren Alkan

Water 2024, 16(13), 1846; DOI: 10.3390/w16131846

Article: Release Characteristics of Small-Sized Microplastics in Bottled Drinks Using Flow Cytometry Sorting and Nile Red Staining

Peixuan Zhou, Kejia Zhang, Tuqiao Zhang, Cheng Cen, Yingying Zheng and Youwen Shuai

Water 2024, 16(13), 1898; DOI: 10.3390/w16131898

Article: Sanitary Sewer Overflow Discharges: Estimation Based on Flow Rate Measurement in Pumping Mains

Luís Mesquita David, António Martins, Marta Rodrigues, Anabela Oliveira, André B. Fortunato, Osvaldo Silva, Alexandre Ataíde and Ana Mendes

Water 2024, 16(13), 1916; DOI: 10.3390/w16131916

 

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Review: A Review of Stability of Dam Structures in Coal Mine Underground Reservoirs

Yan Wang, Fei Liu, Miaomiao Kou and Mingfei Li

Water 2024, 16(13), 1856; DOI: 10.3390/w16131856

Review: Research Progress of Advanced Design Method, Numerical Simulation, and Experimental Technology of Pumps in Deep-Sea Resource Exploitation

Leilei Ji, Xinrui He, Wei Li, Fei Tian, Weidong Shi, Ling Zhou, Zhenbo Liu, Yang Yang, Cui Xiao and Ramesh Agarwal

Water 2024, 16(13), 1881; DOI: 10.3390/w16131881

Article: Dam Deformation Prediction Model Based on Multi-Scale Adaptive Kernel Ensemble

Bin Zhou, Zixuan Wang, Shuyan Fu, Dehui Chen, Tao Yin, Lanlan Gao, Dingzhu Zhao and Bin Ou

Water 2024, 16(13), 1766; DOI: 10.3390/w16131766

Article: Numerical Study of Low-Specific-Speed Centrifugal Pump Based on Principal Component Analysis

Yangyang Wei, Han Zhu, Quanwang Fan, Ning Qiu, Jie Wu and Weibin Zhang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1785; DOI: 10.3390/w16131785

Article: Graph Neural Networks for Sensor Placement: A Proof of Concept towards a Digital Twin of Water Distribution Systems

Andrea Menapace, Ariele Zanfei, Manuel Herrera and Bruno Brentan

Water 2024, 16(13), 1835; DOI: 10.3390/w16131835

Article: Field Investigations and Service Life Assessment of Geosynthetic Filters in Tidally Influenced Revetments in Cases of Ochre Clogging

Lukas Tophoff, Holger Schüttrumpf, Frank Heimbecher, Christian Vollmer, Bodo Philipp and Yulduzkhon Abdullaeva

Water 2024, 16(13), 1840; DOI: 10.3390/w16131840

Article: Research on Internal Flow and Pressure Fluctuation Characteristics of Centrifugal Pumps as Turbines with Different Blade Wrap Angles

Haibo Xu, Weizheng An, Erqinhu Ke, Yingyi Ma, Linlin Geng, Gang Yang and Desheng Zhang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1861; DOI: 10.3390/w16131861

Article: A Novel Artificial Intelligence Prediction Process of Concrete Dam Deformation Based on a Stacking Model Fusion Method

Wenyuan Wu, Huaizhi Su, Yanming Feng, Shuai Zhang, Sen Zheng, Wenhan Cao and Hongchen Liu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1868; DOI: 10.3390/w16131868

Article: Simulation of Flow and Pressure Loss in the Example of the Elbow

Emil Smyk, Michał Stopel and Mikołaj Szyca

Water 2024, 16(13), 1875; DOI: 10.3390/w16131875

Article: Study on the Transient Flow Characteristics of Multistage Centrifugal Pumps during the Startup Process before System Operation

Chao Chen, Hu Xu, Fanjie Deng, Kaipeng Wu, Zhen Zhang and Qiaorui Si

Water 2024, 16(13), 1876; DOI: 10.3390/w16131876

Article: A Hybrid Prediction Model for Rock Reservoir Bank Slope Deformation Considering Fractured Rock Mass Parameters

Jiachen Liang, Jian Chen and Chuan Lin

Water 2024, 16(13), 1880; DOI: 10.3390/w16131880

Article: Numerical Simulation of River Channel Change in the Suspended Sediment-Dominated Downstream Reach of the Sangu River

Md. Majadur Rahman, Daisuke Harada and Shinji Egashira

Water 2024, 16(13), 1934; DOI: 10.3390/w16131934

Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems

Article: Assessment of the Divergent Influence of Natural and Non-Seasonal Hydrological Fluctuations on Functional Traits and Niche Characteristics of Plant Guilds along the Xiangxi River, China

Xiaoling Li, Wenxiong Yi, Shaoting Xu, Di He, Qifeng Min, Gong Chen, Jin Yang, Danli Deng, Zhengjian Yang, Guiyun Huang, Meixiang Hu and Chen Ye

Water 2024, 16(13), 1808; DOI: 10.3390/w16131808

Article: Eco-Engineering Improves Water Quality and Mediates Plankton–Nutrient Interactions in a Restored Wetland

Xue Tian, Lei Qin, Yuanchun Zou, Han Yu, Yu Li, Yuxiang Yuan and Ming Jiang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1821; DOI: 10.3390/w16131821

Article: Enhancing Ecological Security in Ili River Valley: Comprehensive Approach

Ruyi Pan, Junjie Yan, Qianqian Xia and Xufan Jin

Water 2024, 16(13), 1867; DOI: 10.3390/w16131867

Article: Reach-Scale Mapping of Surface Flow Velocities from Thermal Images Acquired by an Uncrewed Aircraft System along the Sacramento River, California, USA

Paul J. Kinzel, Carl J. Legleiter and Christopher L. Gazoorian

Water 2024, 16(13), 1870; DOI: 10.3390/w16131870

Article: Evaluating the Effect of Common Carp Control on Restoration of a Coastal Wetland in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Daniel J. Moore and Nicholas E. Mandrak

Water 2024, 16(13), 1929; DOI: 10.3390/w16131929

Correction: Correction: Peng et al. A Comparison of Greenhouse Gas Emission Patterns in Different Water Levels in Peatlands. Water 2024, 16, 985

Chengcheng Peng, Hengfei Li, Nan Yang and Mingzhi Lu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1801; DOI: 10.3390/w16131801

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Article: Enhancing Hydrodynamic Performance of Floating Breakwaters Using Wing Plates

Fares Ali Al-Sairafi, Jisheng Zhang, Chaohua Jiang, Abdullah I. Almansour and Bassiouny Saleh

Water 2024, 16(13), 1779; DOI: 10.3390/w16131779

Article: Tracking the Dynamics of Spartina alterniflora with WorldView-2/3 and Sentinel-1/2 Imagery in Zhangjiang Estuary, China

Di Dong, Huamei Huang and Qing Gao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1780; DOI: 10.3390/w16131780

Article: Spatio-Temporal Variation in Suspended Sediment during Typhoon Ampil under Wave–Current Interactions in the Yangtze River Estuary

Jie Wang, Cuiping Kuang, Daidu Fan, Wei Xing, Rufu Qin and Qingping Zou

Water 2024, 16(13), 1783; DOI: 10.3390/w16131783

Article: Future Wave Climate-Driven Longshore Sediment Transport and Shoreline Evolution along the Southwestern Black Sea

Büşra Başaran and H. Anıl Arı Güner

Water 2024, 16(13), 1787; DOI: 10.3390/w16131787

Article: Carbon Reduction Associated with Sediment Reworking through Burrows of the Thalassinid Mud Shrimp Laomedia sp. (Crustacea: Laomediidae) from Korean Intertidal Sediments

Jaehwan Seo and Bon Joo Koo

Water 2024, 16(13), 1806; DOI: 10.3390/w16131806

Article: Hydrological Response of Bamboo Plantations on Soil–Water Dynamics in Humid and Semi-Arid Coastal Region of Kenya

Stanley Nadir, Rajesh Kaushal, Ambrish Kumar, Jayaraman Durai, Selim Reza, James Ndufa, Ernest Ronoh, Mohammed Elema, John Thiga and Manish Kumar

Water 2024, 16(13), 1894; DOI: 10.3390/w16131894

Article: Homogeneity Detection and Adjustment of Sea Surface Salinity along the Coast of the Northern South China Sea

Jingyi Huang, Dawei You and Yan Li

Water 2024, 16(13), 1895; DOI: 10.3390/w16131895

Article: Observations of Tide- and Wave-Driven Groundwater Dynamics in Meso-Tidal Sandy Beach

Emilie Woussen, Damien Sous and Nadia Sénéchal

Water 2024, 16(13), 1924; DOI: 10.3390/w16131924

Article: Sampling and Analysis of Microplastics in the Coastal Environments of Sri Lanka: Estuaries of the Kelani River to Mahaoya

P. G. Y. W. Weerasekara, D. S. M. De Silva, R. C. L. De Silva, A. A. D. Amarathunga, A. Bakir, A. R. McGoran, D. B. Sivyer and C. Reeve

Water 2024, 16(13), 1932; DOI: 10.3390/w16131932

Correction: Correction: Harenda et al. Spatio-Temporal Morphodynamics of a Nourished Sandy Shore Based on LiDAR Measurements. Water 2024, 16, 1055

Marek Harenda, Aleksandra Dudkowska and Piotr Szmytkiewicz

Water 2024, 16(13), 1893; DOI: 10.3390/w16131893

 

Water Use and Scarcity

Review: Innovations in Solar-Powered Desalination: A Comprehensive Review of Sustainable Solutions for Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Mohammad Al-Addous, Mathhar Bdour, Shatha Rabaiah, Ali Boubakri, Norman Schweimanns, Nesrine Barbana and Johannes Wellmann

Water 2024, 16(13), 1877; DOI: 10.3390/w16131877

Review: A Systematic Review on Drivers of Water-Use Behaviour among Agricultural Water Users

Markus A. Monteiro, Yonas T. Bahta and Henry Jordaan

Water 2024, 16(13), 1899; DOI: 10.3390/w16131899

Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture

Review: Irrigation Performance Assessment, Opportunities with Wireless Sensors and Satellites

Brian Carthy, Ben Somers and Guido Wyseure

Water 2024, 16(13), 1762; DOI: 10.3390/w16131762

General

Review: Recent Advances in Biofiltration for PPCP Removal from Water

Pinyi Lin, Zhuwei Liao, Gequan Wu, Liwei Yang, Jie Fu and Yin Luo

Water 2024, 16(13), 1888; DOI: 10.3390/w16131888

Article: Genesis of Geothermal Waters in Zhongshan City, China: Hydrochemical and H-O-C Isotopic Implications

Yanan Li, Ximin Bai, Changsheng Huang, Wei Chen, Chuanming Ma, Wei Huang, Gao Deng, Xiangrong Qiu, Shengnan Chen, Yongjun Yang, Ying Huang, Xuefeng Wu and Hailong Ye

Water 2024, 16(13), 1765; DOI: 10.3390/w16131765

Article: Using MODFLOW to Model Riparian Wetland Shallow Groundwater and Nutrient Dynamics in an Appalachian Watershed

Bidisha Faruque Abesh, James T. Anderson and Jason A. Hubbart

Water 2024, 16(13), 1772; DOI: 10.3390/w16131772

Article: Effect of Median Soil–Particle Size Ratio on Water Storage Capacity of Capillary Barrier

Honghua Liu, Jie Dong, Qiang Liu, Lin Geng, Zhongsheng Wang and Chong Sun

Water 2024, 16(13), 1774; DOI: 10.3390/w16131774

Article: Water Level Prediction and Forecasting Using a Long Short-Term Memory Model for Nam Ngum River Basin in Lao PDR

Choong-Soo Kim, Cho-Rong Kim, Kah-Hoong Kok and Jeong-Min Lee

Water 2024, 16(13), 1777; DOI: 10.3390/w16131777

Article: Overflow Simulation and Optimization of a Drainage System in an Urban Area in the Northern Anhui Plain

Yun Wan, Mingjun Li, Nan Zhang, Yuxuan Li, Peiqing Huang, Houkuan Zhang, Hao Huang, Wei Wei and Shuguang Zhu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1781; DOI: 10.3390/w16131781

Article: Retention, Degradation, and Runoff of Plastic-Coated Fertilizer Capsules in Paddy Fields in Fukushima and Miyagi Prefectures, Japan: Consistency of Capsule Degradation Behavior and Variations in Carbon Weight and Stable Carbon Isotope Abundance

Shigeki Harada, Itsuki Yajima, Keitaro Fukushima and Youji Nitta

Water 2024, 16(13), 1782; DOI: 10.3390/w16131782

Article: Upgrading Maize Cultivation in Bosnia and Herzegovina from Rainfed to Irrigated Systems: Use of Remote Sensing Data and the Dual Crop Coefficient Approach to Estimate Evapotranspiration

Sabrija Čadro, Zuhdija Omerović, Daniela Soares, Benjamin Crljenković, Wilk S. Almeida, Milan Šipka, Merima Makaš, Mladen Todorović and Teresa A. Paço

Water 2024, 16(13), 1797; DOI: 10.3390/w16131797

Article: Brackish Water Phytodesalination by the Euhalophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum

Abdulaziz Alharbi, Mokded Rabhi and Ahmed Alzoheiry

Water 2024, 16(13), 1798; DOI: 10.3390/w16131798

Article: Attribution Analysis of Climate Change and Human Activities on Runoff and Vegetation Changes in the Min River Basin

Shuyuan Liu, Yicheng Gu, Huan Wang, Jin Lin, Peng Zhuo and Tianqi Ao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1804; DOI: 10.3390/w16131804

Article: Research on Failure Modes and Causes of 100-m-High Core Wall Rockfill Dams

Yanan Li, Han Zhang, Yanling Yuan, Ling Lan and Yongqi Su

Water 2024, 16(13), 1809; DOI: 10.3390/w16131809

Article: UV/Advanced Oxidation Process for Removing Humic Acid from Natural Water: Comparison of Different Methods and Effect of External Factors

Qingchao Shen, Xiaosan Song, Jishuo Fan, Cheng Chen and Zhuohao Li

Water 2024, 16(13), 1815; DOI: 10.3390/w16131815

Article: A Pathway Analysis of Evapotranspiration Variation Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Summer Maize in the Haihe Plain

Wenzhe Guo, Jundong Xu, Xuetong Liu, Hongkai Dang, Shibo Fang and Yueying Li

Water 2024, 16(13), 1819; DOI: 10.3390/w16131819

Article: Preparation of Bimetallic CoFe@CSC-700 Carbonated Microspheres and Activated Peroxymonosulfate for Degradation of Levofloxacin

Tongke Hu, Yazhen Chen, Xiaolan Guo, Yongjun Peng and Jianhua Cheng

Water 2024, 16(13), 1818; DOI: 10.3390/w16131818

Article: Characteristics and Significance of Natural Nanoparticles in the Groundwater of the Baotu Spring Area in Jinan, Shandong Province, Eastern China

Caiping Hu, Rui Liu, Peng Zhang, Yaqin Wang, Lei Zuo, Xiaoheng Zhang and Changsuo Li

Water 2024, 16(13), 1820; DOI: 10.3390/w16131820

Article: Enhancing Water Management: A Comparative Analysis of Time Series Prediction Models for Distributed Water Flow in Supply Networks

Carlos Pires and Mónica V. Martins

Water 2024, 16(13), 1827; DOI: 10.3390/w16131827

Article: Game Theory Applications in Equilibrium Water Pricing of Multiple Regional Sources and Users

Shiwu Wang, Shangbin Liu, Shuiping Yao, Xi Guo, Shan-e-hyder Soomro, Chaojie Niu, Liyu Quan and Caihong Hu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1845; DOI: 10.3390/w16131845

Article: Multi-Objective Ecological Long-Term Operation of Cascade Reservoirs Considering Hydrological Regime Alteration

Changjiang Xu, Di Zhu, Wei Guo, Shuo Ouyang, Liping Li, Hui Bu, Lin Wang, Jian Zuo and Junhong Chen

Water 2024, 16(13), 1849; DOI: 10.3390/w16131849

Article: Prediction of Settling Velocity of Microplastics by Multiple Machine-Learning Methods

Zequan Leng, Lu Cao, Yun Gao, Yadong Hou, Di Wu, Zhongyan Huo and Xizeng Zhao

Water 2024, 16(13), 1850; DOI: 10.3390/w16131850

Article: Monitoring of the Icing Process and Simulation of Its Formation Mechanism in the Cut Slope of Beihei Highway

Wei Shan, Peijie Hou, Guangchao Xu, Helong Du, Ying Guo and Chengcheng Zhang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1851; DOI: 10.3390/w16131851

Article: Modeling the Hydraulic Fracturing Processes in Shale Formations Using a Meshless Method

Ziru Xiang, Shuyang Yu and Xiangyu Wang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1855; DOI: 10.3390/w16131855

Article: Characteristics and Mechanism of Downflow in Front of a Cylindrical Pier with Clear-Water Local Scour

Weizheng Wang, Song Wei, Dayong Zhu, Jun Wang and Haipeng Duan

Water 2024, 16(13), 1863; DOI: 10.3390/w16131863

Article: CTAB Surfactant Promotes Rapid, Efficient, and Simultaneous Removal of Cationic and Anionic Dyes through Adsorption on Glycerol/Citrate Polyester

Andrés F. Chamorro, Tulio A. Lerma and Manuel Palencia

Water 2024, 16(13), 1860; DOI: 10.3390/w16131860

Article: Rate Transient Analysis for Multi-Fractured Wells in Tight Gas Reservoirs Considering Multiple Nonlinear Flow Mechanisms

Yonghui Wu, Lidong Mi, Liqiang Ma, Rongchen Zheng and Xiujuan Feng

Water 2024, 16(13), 1866; DOI: 10.3390/w16131866

Article: Hydrological Drought Risk Assessment and Its Spatial Transmission Based on the Three-Dimensional Copula Function in the Yellow River Basin

Hui Li, Jiamei Guo, Dengming Yan, Huiliang Wang and Xiujuan Jiang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1873; DOI: 10.3390/w16131873

Article: Case of Vibrio vulnificus Infection in Orechromis niloticus during Suspension of Recirculating Aquaculture System

Yan Cai, Liu Jiang, Shaoqun Wang, Zhangding Zhao, Yongcan Zhou and Shifeng Wang

Water 2024, 16(13), 1878; DOI: 10.3390/w16131878

Article: Development of an Ecosystem Model Considering Sediment Redox Processes in Enclosed Water Bodies

Jinichi Koue

Water 2024, 16(13), 1879; DOI: 10.3390/w16131879

Article: Behavioral and Biochemical Effects of Glyphosate-Based Herbicide Roundup on Unionid Mussels: Are Mussels Good Indicators of Water Pollution with Glyphosate-Based Pesticides?

Agnieszka Drewek, Jan Lubawy, Piotr Domek, Jan Polak, Małgorzata Słocińska, Aleksandra Dzięgelewska and Piotr Klimaszyk

Water 2024, 16(13), 1882; DOI: 10.3390/w16131882

Article: Long-Term Performance Evaluation and Fouling Characterization of a Full-Scale Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant

Sabrine Chebil, A. Ruiz-García, Soumaya Farhat and Mahmoud Bali

Water 2024, 16(13), 1892; DOI: 10.3390/w16131892

Article: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Center Pivot Irrigation Systems in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna (1985–2020)

Edson Eyji Sano, Ivo Augusto Lopes Magalhães, Lineu Neiva Rodrigues and Édson Luis Bolfe

Water 2024, 16(13), 1897; DOI: 10.3390/w16131897

Article: Assessing the Impacts of Land Use on Water Quality in the Acacias River Basin, Colombia

Jose Ismael Rojas-Peña, Yair Leandro Zapata-Muñoz, Geraldine Jhafet Huerfano-Moreno, Juan Manuel Trujillo-González, Marlon Serrano-Gómez, Edgar Fernando Castillo-Monroy, Marco Aurelio Torres-Mora, Francisco J. García-Navarro and Raimundo Jiménez-Ballesta

Water 2024, 16(13), 1903; DOI: 10.3390/w16131903

Article: The Influence of Snow Cover Variability on the Runoff in Syr Darya Headwater Catchments between 2000 and 2022 Based on the Analysis of Remote Sensing Time Series

Clara Vydra, Andreas J. Dietz, Sebastian Roessler and Christopher Conrad

Water 2024, 16(13), 1902; DOI: 10.3390/w16131902

Article: A Statistical Approach for the Assessment of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Values of Unsaturated Urban Soils Obtained by Field Infiltration Tests

Traian Ghibus and Dragos Gaitanaru

Water 2024, 16(13), 1908; DOI: 10.3390/w16131908

Article: Managing the Santa Cruz River: Prospects for a Future Binational Minute

Stephen Mumme and Christopher Brown

Water 2024, 16(13), 1909; DOI: 10.3390/w16131909

Article: Comprehensive Safety Analysis of Ultimate Bearing Capacity Considering Hydraulic Fracture for Guxian High RCC Gravity Dam

Mohamed Ramadan, Jinsheng Jia, Lei Zhao, Xu Li and Yangfeng Wu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1912; DOI: 10.3390/w16131912

Article: Inversion Method for Monitoring Daily Variations in Terrestrial Water Storage Changes in the Yellow River Basin Based on GNSS

Wenqing Zhang and Xiaoping Lu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1919; DOI: 10.3390/w16131919

Article: Numerical Study on the Influence of Installation Height and Operating Frequency of Biomimetic Pumps on the Incipient Motion of Riverbed Sediment

Ertian Hua, Yabo Song, Caiju Lu, Mingwang Xiang, Tao Wang and Qizong Sun

Water 2024, 16(13), 1925; DOI: 10.3390/w16131925

Article: Benchmarking Physical Model Experiments with Numerical Simulations for the Wangjiashan Landslide-Induced Surge Waves in the Baihetan Reservoir Area

Anchi Shi, Jie Lei, Lei Tian, Changhao Lyu, Pengchao Mao and Weiya Xu

Water 2024, 16(13), 1930; DOI: 10.3390/w16131930

Essay: Toward a Sociology of Water: Reconstructing the Missing “Big Picture” of Social Water Research

Peter Schulz and Alexis Gros

Water 2024, 16(13), 1792; DOI: 10.3390/w16131792

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It's Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 11 (June-1 2024) 176 Articles

It's Water, Volume 16, Issue 11 (June-1 2024) 176 Articles

 

Cover Story

Article: The Transformation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Aquatic Environment of a Fluorochemical Industrial Park

Jingqi Huang, Zhen Zhao, Jing Liu and Shiyue Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1513; DOI: 10.3390/w16111513

Featured Paper

Article: Stream Algal Biomass Associations with Environmental Variables in a Temperate Rainforest

Elsa K. Toskey, Stephen M. Bollens, Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, Peter M. Kiffney, Kyle D. Martens and Bernard T. Bormann

Water 2024, 16(11), 1533; DOI: 10.3390/w16111533

Water-Energy Nexus

Article: Optimization of the Coupling between Water and Energy Consumption in a Smart Integrated Photovoltaic Pumping Station System

Zuping Xu and Xing Chen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1493; DOI: 10.3390/w16111493

 

Article: Water–Energy–Milk Nexus: Empirical Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Raga M. Elzaki, Mohammed Al-Mahish and Fahad Alzahrani

Water 2024, 16(11), 1538; DOI: 10.3390/w16111538

 

Article: Priority Setting and Resource Allocation in Coastal Local Government Marine Regulatory Reform: Application of Machine Learning in Resource Optimization

Yingying Tian and Qi Wang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1544; DOI: 10.3390/w16111544

 

Article: Groundwater Potential for the Utilisation of Shallow Geothermal Energy from a Closed Coal Mine

Željko Vukelić and Jurij Šporin

Water 2024, 16(11), 1572; DOI: 10.3390/w16111572

 

Article: Operating Energy Needed for Desalination Systems in Cogeneration Plants

Obida Zeitoun

Water 2024, 16(11), 1629; DOI: 10.3390/w16111629

New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences

Review: Elements and Processes Required for the Development of a Spring-Breakup Ice-Jam Flood Forecasting System (Churchill River, Atlantic Canada)

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Robert Briggs, Amir Ali Khan and Thomas Puestow

Water 2024, 16(11), 1557; DOI: 10.3390/w16111557

 

Article: Monitoring of Extreme Drought in the Yangtze River Basin in 2022 Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

Mingxiao Yu, Qisheng He, Rong Jin, Shuqi Miao, Rong Wang and Liangliang Ke

Water 2024, 16(11), 1502; DOI: 10.3390/w16111502

 

Article: Identification of Environmental Damage Process of a Chromium-Contaminated Site in China

Xiaoyuan Cao, Bin Wang, Litang Hu, Jin Wu, Dan Zhao, Yuanzheng Zhai, Kexue Han and Mingming Wang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1578; DOI: 10.3390/w16111578

 

Article: Application of the Data-Driven Method and Hydrochemistry Analysis to Predict Groundwater Level Change Induced by the Mining Activities: A Case Study of Yili Coalfield in Xinjiang, Norwest China

Ankun Luo, Shuning Dong, Hao Wang, Haidong Cao, Tiantian Wang, Xiaoyu Hu, Chenyu Wang, Shouchuan Zhang and Shen Qu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1611; DOI: 10.3390/w16111611

 

Technical Note: Reach-Based Extrapolation to Assess the Ice-Jam Flood Hazard of an Ungauged River Reach along the Mackenzie River, Canada

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Anna Coles and Jad Saade

Water 2024, 16(11), 1535; DOI: 10.3390/w16111535

Hydrogeology

Article: Stable Isotope Hydrology of Karst Groundwaters in Romania

Renata Feher, Carmen-Andreea Bădăluță, Traian Brad, Călin Drăgan, Virgil Drăgușin, Dragoș Ștefan Măntoiu, Aurel Perșoiu and Maria-Laura Tîrlă

Water 2024, 16(11), 1489; DOI: 10.3390/w16111489

 

Article: Research and Application of the Mine 3D DC Resistivity Method for Detecting Grouting in the Floor of an Ultrawide Working Face, Taking the Yongmei Xinqiao Coal Mine in Henan Province as an Example

Ning Li, Maofei Li, Xuhong Wang, Xuerui Tong and Ruosong Sun

Water 2024, 16(11), 1491; DOI: 10.3390/w16111491

 

Article: SLEM (Shallow Landslide Express Model): A Simplified Geo-Hydrological Model for Powerlines Geo-Hazard Assessment

Andrea Abbate and Leonardo Mancusi

Water 2024, 16(11), 1507; DOI: 10.3390/w16111507

 

Article: Low-Permeability Layered Clay Soil Hinders Organic Macromolecular Pollutant Migration in the Transition Zone of the Jianghan Plain–Dabie Mountain Area

Tingting Shi, Wenyan Liu, Yulin Yang, Yongyi Liu, Mengru Li, Tianwen Liu, Zhichen Wu and Qing Wang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1522; DOI: 10.3390/w16111522

 

Article: Modelling Approach for Assessment of Groundwater Potential of the Moghra Aquifer, Egypt, for Extensive Rural Development

Ahmed Shalby, Bakenaz A. Zeidan, Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik, Abdelazim M. Negm and Asaad M. Armanuos

Water 2024, 16(11), 1562; DOI: 10.3390/w16111562

 

Article: Rainfall-Triggered Landslides and Numerical Modeling of Subsequent Debris Flows at Kalli Village of Suntar Formation in the Lesser Himalayas in Nepal

Diwakar KC, Mohammad Wasif Naqvi, Harish Dangi and Liangbo Hu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1594; DOI: 10.3390/w16111594

 

Article: Conceptual Model Based on Groundwater Dynamics in the Northern Croatian Dinaric Region at the Transition from the Deep Karst and Fluviokarst

Ivana Boljat, Josip Terzić, Željko Duić, Jasmina Lukač Reberski and Ana Selak

Water 2024, 16(11), 1630; DOI: 10.3390/w16111630

 

Article: Study on the Impact of Closed Coal Mines on Groundwater in the Panlong River Basin (Shangdong Province, China) Based on Sulfur and Oxygen Isotopes

Hao Chen, Hongnian Chen, Feng Zhang, Zhantao Han, Huijian Shi, Jia Meng, Qiyan Feng and Di Chen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1634; DOI: 10.3390/w16111634

 

Editorial: Recent Advances in Modern Hydrogeology: Promoting Harmony between Nature and Humanity

Peiyue Li, Jianhua Wu and Vetrimurugan Elumalai

Water 2024, 16(11), 1501; DOI: 10.3390/w16111501

 

Correction: Correction: Simon et al. Wetland Management in Recharge Regions of Regional Groundwater Flow Systems with Water Shortage, Nyírség Region, Hungary. Water 2023, 15, 3589

Szilvia Simon, Judit Déri-Takács, Márk Szijártó, László Szél and Judit Mádl-Szőnyi

Water 2024, 16(11), 1609; DOI: 10.3390/w16111609

Soil and Water

Article: Study on the Characteristics and Evolution Laws of Seepage Damage in Red Mud Tailings Dams

Shiqi Chang, Xiaoqiang Dong, Xiaofeng Liu, Xin Xu, Haoru Zhang and Yinhao Huang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1487; DOI: 10.3390/w16111487

 

Article: Development and Application of the Snow, Soil Water and Water Balance Model (SNOSWAB), an Online Model for Daily Estimation of Snowpack Processes, Soil Water Content and Soil Water Balance

Serban Danielescu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1503; DOI: 10.3390/w16111503

 

Article: Estimating Increased Transient Water Storage with Increases in Beaver Dam Activity

Konrad C. Hafen, Joseph M. Wheaton, Brett B. Roper, Philip Bailey, William W. Macfarlane, Bethany T. Neilson and Christopher J. Tennant

Water 2024, 16(11), 1515; DOI: 10.3390/w16111515

 

Article: Numerical Simulation of Rainfall-Induced Erosion on Infiltration and Slope Stability

Qunzhi Cheng, Kepeng Hou, Huafen Sun and Xiangdong Niu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1517; DOI: 10.3390/w16111517

 

Article: The Mechanism of the Influence of Different Irrigation Methods on Groundwater Recharge

Hongyuan Li, Guizhang Zhao, Simin Xie, Lingying Kong, Hongliang Li and Hepeng Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1565; DOI: 10.3390/w16111565

 

Article: Electromagnetic Water Treatment and Soil Compost Incorporation to Alleviate the Impact of Soil Salinization

Subanky Suvendran, David Johnson, Miguel Acevedo, Breana Smithers and Pei Xu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1577; DOI: 10.3390/w16111577

 

Article: Using the AIEM and Radarsat-2 SAR to Retrieve Bare Surface Soil Moisture

Chengshen Yin, Quanming Liu and Yin Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1617; DOI: 10.3390/w16111617

Water and Climate Change

Article: Space-Time Variability of Drought Characteristics in Pernambuco, Brazil

Ivanildo Batista da Silva Júnior, Lidiane da Silva Araújo, Tatijana Stosic, Rômulo Simões Cezar Menezes and Antonio Samuel Alves da Silva

Water 2024, 16(11), 1490; DOI: 10.3390/w16111490

 

Article: Spring Meteorological Drought over East Asia and Its Associations with Large-Scale Climate Variations

Meng Gao, Ruijun Ge and Yueqi Wang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1508; DOI: 10.3390/w16111508

Article: Water Quality from Natural Sources for Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategies: Galapagos, Ecuador

Paúl Carrión-Mero, Fernando Morante-Carballo, Josué Briones-Bitar, María Jaya-Montalvo, Emily Sánchez-Zambrano, Joselyne Solórzano, Jenifer Malavé-Hernández, Francisco Javier Montalván Toala, Jaime Proaño, Ángel Flor-Pineda and Ramón Espinel

Water 2024, 16(11), 1516; DOI: 10.3390/w16111516

Article: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Coastal Resilience: A Stakeholder Surveys

Charalampos Nikolaos Roukounis and Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis

Water 2024, 16(11), 1519; DOI: 10.3390/w16111519

Article: Study on the Annual Runoff Change and Its Relationship with Fractional Vegetation Cover and Climate Change in the Chinese Yellow River Basin

Lin Xu, Hongxu Mu, Shengqi Jian and Xinan Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1537; DOI: 10.3390/w16111537

Article: Assessment of Groundwater Quality through Hydrochemistry Using Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Water Quality Index (WQI) in Kızılırmak Delta, Turkey

Sema Arıman, Nazire Göksu Soydan-Oksal, Neslihan Beden and Hayatullah Ahmadzai

Water 2024, 16(11), 1570; DOI: 10.3390/w16111570

Ecohydrology

Article: Evaluation of Algal Control Measures in Eutrophic Reservoirs Based on Aquatic Ecosystem Models

Zhen Zheng, Tingting Liao, Yafeng Lin, Xueyi Zhu and Haobin Meng

Water 2024, 16(11), 1494; DOI: 10.3390/w16111494

Article: Comparing Four Evapotranspiration Partitioning Methods from Eddy Covariance Considering Turbulent Mixing in a Poplar Plantation

Xin Wang, Yu Zhou, Hui Huang, Xiang Gao, Shoujia Sun, Ping Meng and Jinsong Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1548; DOI: 10.3390/w16111548

Hydrology

Article: Developing Regional Hydrological Drought Risk Models through Ordinary and Principal Component Regression Using Low-Flow Indexes in Susurluk Basin, Turkey

Çiğdem Gürler, Alper Serdar Anli and Havva Eylem Polat

Water 2024, 16(11), 1473; DOI: 10.3390/w16111473

Article: Application of RNN-LSTM in Predicting Drought Patterns in Pakistan: A Pathway to Sustainable Water Resource Management

Wilayat Shah, Junfei Chen, Irfan Ullah, Muhammad Haroon Shah and Irfan Ullah

Water 2024, 16(11), 1492;

 

Article: Combining InSAR Technology to Uncover the Deformation Factors and Mechanisms of Landslides in the Baihetan Hydropower Station Reservoir Area

Shuang Zhang, Jie Meng and Guobin Fu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1511; DOI: 10.3390/w16111511

Article: Development and Application of a New Open-Source Integrated Surface–Subsurface Flow Model in Plain Farmland

Hai Yang, Quanping Zhou, Yuehua Jiang, Lili Hou, Hui Yang and Qiuju Qi

Water 2024, 16(11), 1528; DOI: 10.3390/w16111528

Article: Optimizing the Numerical Simulation of Debris Flows: A New Exploration of the Hexagonal Cellular Automaton Method

Zheng Han, Qiang Fu, Nan Jiang, Yangfan Ma, Xiulin Zhang and Yange Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1536; DOI: 10.3390/w16111536

Article: Monthly Runoff Prediction for Xijiang River via Gated Recurrent Unit, Discrete Wavelet Transform, and Variational Modal Decomposition

Yuanyuan Yang, Weiyan Li and Dengfeng Liu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1552; DOI: 10.3390/w16111552

Article: Runoff Prediction in Different Forecast Periods via a Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Ganjiang River Basin, China

Wei Wang, Shinan Tang, Jiacheng Zou, Dong Li, Xiaobin Ge, Jianchu Huang and Xin Yin

Water 2024, 16(11), 1589; DOI: 10.3390/w16111589

Article: An Index Used to Evaluate the Applicability of Mid-to-Long-Term Runoff Prediction in a Basin Based on Mutual Information

Shuai Xie, Zhilong Xiang, Yongqiang Wang, Biqiong Wu, Keyan Shen and Jin Wang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1619; DOI: 10.3390/w16111619

Editorial: Role of Snow in the High-Mountain Hydrologic Cycle

Hongyi Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1525; DOI: 10.3390/w16111525

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: Advances in Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites for Water and Wastewater Treatment: A Review

Jasaswini Tripathy, Akanshya Mishra, Mayank Pandey, Rakesh Ranjan Thakur, Sasmita Chand, Prangya Ranjan Rout and Muhammad Kashif Shahid

Water 2024, 16(11), 1481; DOI: 10.3390/w16111481

Review: Post-Removal of Phosphorus from Biologically Treated Wastewater and Recovering It as Fertilizer: Pilot-Scale Attempt—Project PhoReSe

Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Manassis Mitrakas and Anastasios Zouboulis

Water 2024, 16(11), 1527; DOI: 10.3390/w16111527

Review: Clarifying the Role of Phosphorus Management Strategies in Enhancing the Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Plants

Huanlun Zhang, Qiangqiang Li, Dingrong Han and Ranbin Liu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1539; DOI: 10.3390/w16111539

Review: Nutrient Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Biosorbents Derived from Rice and Corn Husk Residues: A Systematic Review from the Environmental Management Perspective

José Lugo-Arias, Sandra Bibiana Vargas, Aymer Maturana, Julia González-Álvarez, Elkyn Lugo-Arias and Heidy Rico

Water 2024, 16(11), 1543; DOI: 10.3390/w16111543

Review: Comprehensive Review of Global Perspectives on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Compounds: Occurrence, Fate, and Remediation in Groundwater Systems

Mohammed Benaafi and Abdullah Bafaqeer

Water 2024, 16(11), 1583; DOI: 10.3390/w16111583

Review: In-Depth Photocatalytic Degradation Mechanism of the Extensively Used Dyes Malachite Green, Methylene Blue, Congo Red, and Rhodamine B via Covalent Organic Framework-Based Photocatalysts

Abdul Haleem, Mohib Ullah, Saif ur Rehman, Afzal Shah, Muhammad Farooq, Tooba Saeed, Ishan Ullah and Hao Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1588; DOI: 10.3390/w16111588

Review: A Critical Review on the Advancement of the Development of Low-Cost Membranes to Be Utilized in Microbial Fuel Cells

Alok Tiwari, Niraj Yadav, Dipak A. Jadhav, Diksha Saxena, Kirtan Anghan, Vishal Kumar Sandhwar and Shivendu Saxena

Water 2024, 16(11), 1597; DOI: 10.3390/w16111597

Review: Use of Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles (nZVIs) from Environmentally Friendly Synthesis for the Removal of Dyes from Water—A Review

Cristina Rodríguez-Rasero, Vicente Montes-Jimenez, María F. Alexandre-Franco, Carmen Fernández-González, Jesús Píriz-Tercero and Eduardo Manuel Cuerda-Correa

Water 2024, 16(11), 1607; DOI: 10.3390/w16111607

Review: Critical Review on Two-Stage Anaerobic Digestion with H₂ and CH₄ Production from Various Wastes

Xinyi Zheng and Ruying Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1608; DOI: 10.3390/w16111608

Review: A Mini-Review on Safe Treatment and Valorization of Salt Waste in Chemical Production Processes in China

Yang Lv, Yi Wang, Dapeng Zhang, Chaoyue Wu, Jun Zhang, Zehua Zhao, Mohammad Nabi, Xuan Luo and Keke Xiao

Water 2024, 16(11), 1620; DOI: 10.3390/w16111620

Article: Oilfield Brine as a Source of Water and Valuable Raw Materials—Proof of Concept on a Laboratory Scale

Grzegorz Rotko, Ewa Knapik, Marcin Piotrowski and Marta Marszałek

Water 2024, 16(11), 1461; DOI: 10.3390/w16111461

Article: Preparation of 2D/2D CoAl-LDH/BiO(OH)_XI_1−X Heterojunction Catalyst with Enhanced Visible–Light Photocatalytic Activity for Organic Pollutants Degradation in Water

Liying Che and Huanhuan Ji

Water 2024, 16(11), 1467; DOI: 10.3390/w16111467

Article: Response Surface Methodology Approach to Optimize Parameters for Coagulation Process Using Polyaluminum Chloride (PAC)

Xuemei Ji, Zhihua Li, Mingsen Wang, Zhigang Yuan and Li Jin

Water 2024, 16(11), 1470; DOI: 10.3390/w16111470

Article: Enhanced Simultaneous Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal in a Continuous-Flow Granular Sludge System under Gradient-Controlled Hydraulic Loading

Yaguang Zhao, Pengkun An, Junfeng Wan and Xuehui Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1510; DOI: 10.3390/w16111510

Article: Effect of Fermentation Time, pH, and Their Interaction on the Production of Volatile Fatty Acids from Cassava Wastewater

Lina Marcela Sanchez-Ledesma, Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Victoria and Howard Ramírez-Malule

Water 2024, 16(11), 1514; DOI: 10.3390/w16111514

Article: Progress on the Use of Hydroponics to Remediate Hog Farm Wastewater after Vermifiltration Treatment

Kirill Ispolnov, Tomás M. R. Luz, Luis M. I. Aires and Judite S. Vieira

Water 2024, 16(11), 1524; DOI: 10.3390/w16111524

Article: The Aging Behavior of Polyvinyl Chloride Microplastics by UV/Sodium Percarbonate Oxidation: Efficiency and Mechanism

Luhan Su, Zhongwen Liu, Jia He, Yan Wu and Qingguo Wang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1529; DOI: 10.3390/w16111529

Article: Valorization of Cherry By-Products as Coagulant/Flocculants Combined with Bentonite Clay for Olive Mill Wastewater Treatment

Ana R. Teixeira, Sílvia Afonso, Nuno Jorge, Ivo V. Oliveira, Berta Gonçalves, José A. Peres and Marco S. Lucas

Water 2024, 16(11), 1530; DOI: 10.3390/w16111530

Article: Behavior of PCDD/Fs and PCBs from Wastewater Treatment Plants during Sewage Sludge Composting: Study of Semi-Anaerobic Conditions and Different Stages of the Process

Maria Francisca Gomez-Rico, Teresa Hernandez, Maria Angeles Garrido and Rafael Font

Water 2024, 16(11), 1545; DOI: 10.3390/w16111545

Article: Novel Ensemble Learning Approach for Predicting COD and TN: Model Development and Implementation

Qiangqiang Cheng, Ji-Yeon Kim, Yu Wang, Xianghao Ren, Yingjie Guo, Jeong-Hyun Park, Sung-Gwan Park, Sang-Youp Lee, Guili Zheng, Yawei Wang, Young-Jae Lee and Moon-Hyun Hwang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1561; DOI: 10.3390/w16111561

Article: Degradation of Sulfamethoxazole in Secondary Wastewater Based on Persulfate Activated by Citric-Acid-Complexed Ferrous Ion under Sunlight

Xinyang Chen, Yan Zhu, Yuhao Zhou, Guoxin Tang, Jiangang Han and Wei Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1564; DOI: 10.3390/w16111564

Article: Reuse of Treated Slaughterhouse Wastewater from Immediate One-Step Lime Precipitation and Atmospheric Carbonation to Produce Aromatic Plants in Hydroponics

Luís Madeira, Margarida Ribau Teixeira, Sérgio Nunes, Adelaide Almeida and Fátima Carvalho

Water 2024, 16(11), 1566; DOI: 10.3390/w16111566

Article: Identification and Distribution of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria in the Feces Treatment Process: A Case Study in a Dairy Farm, China

Hailun Wang, Yongchao Gao, Liwen Zheng, Lei Ji, Xue Kong, Jianhua Du, Hui Wang, Luchun Duan, Tian Niu, Jianhui Liu and Ming Shang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1575; DOI: 10.3390/w16111575

Article: Optimizing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal from Wastewater in the Context of a Sustainable Economy

Oana Irimia, Eniko Gaspar, Mirela Stanciu, Emilian Moșneguțu and Narcis Bârsan

Water 2024, 16(11), 1585; DOI: 10.3390/w16111585

Article: Eco-Friendly Superhydrophobic Modification of Low-Cost Multi-Layer Composite Mullite Base Tubular Ceramic Membrane for Water Desalination

Javad Zare, Mohsen Abbasi, Seyed Abdollatif Hashemifard, Nadir Dizge, Mahdieh Dibaj and Mohammad Akrami

Water 2024, 16(11), 1593; DOI: 10.3390/w16111593

Article: Direct Electrooxidation of Ammonia-Enriched Wastewater Using a Bipolar Membrane-Integrated Electrolytic Cell

Jeong-Hee Kang, Gyung-Geun Oh, Bong-Jae Lee, Seongwon Im, Weonjae Kim, Sungwon Kang and Ji-Hyung Han

Water 2024, 16(11), 1599; DOI: 10.3390/w16111599

Article: Photocatalytic Degradation of Algal Organic Matter Using TiO₂/UV and Persulfate/UV

Luan de Souza Leite, Maria Teresa Hoffmann, Danilo Vitorino dos Santos and Luiz Antonio Daniel

Water 2024, 16(11), 1626; DOI: 10.3390/w16111626

Article: Denitrification Mechanism of Heterotrophic Aerobic Denitrifying Pseudomonas hunanensisStrain DC-2 and Its Application in Aquaculture Wastewater

Xinya Sui, Xingqiang Wu, Bangding Xiao, Chunbo Wang and Cuicui Tian

Water 2024, 16(11), 1625; DOI: 10.3390/w16111625

 

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Review: A Systematic Review of the Vertical Green System for Balancing Ecology and Urbanity

Jiayu Zhao, Qiuyi Rao, Chuanhao Sun, Rana Muhammad Adnan Ikram, Chengliang Fan, Jianjun Li, Mo Wang and Dongqing Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1472; DOI: 10.3390/w16111472

Review: Review of the Mechanism and Methodology of Water Demand Forecasting in the Socio-Economic System

Xudong Fang, Jinhua Liu, Min Zhou, Hui Zhang and Jing Zhao

Water 2024, 16(11), 1631; DOI: 10.3390/w16111631

Article: An Improved DeNSE Methodology for Optimal Sectorization of Water Distribution Networks

Zeljko Vasilic, Branislav Babic, Damjan Ivetic, Zoran Kapelan and Milos Stanic

Water 2024, 16(11), 1463; DOI: 10.3390/w16111463

Article: Assessment of Hydrological and Meteorological Composite Drought Characteristics Based on Baseflow and Precipitation

Saihua Huang, Heshun Zhang, Yao Liu, Wenlong Liu, Fusen Wei, Chenggang Yang, Feiyue Ding, Jiandong Ye, Hui Nie, Yanlei Du and Yuting Chen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1466; DOI: 10.3390/w16111466

Article: A Biotic Strategy for Enhanced Hexavalent Chromium Removal by Zero-Valent Iron under the Interference of Humic Acid

Mingxi Li, Yuhang Yang, Weiquan Li, Zhiyi Deng and Jinhua Wu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1475; DOI: 10.3390/w16111475

Article: Socio-Spatial Analysis of Water Affordability at Small Scales: A Needs-Based Approach

Gustavo Romero-Gomez, Elena Domene, Xavier Garcia, Hyerim Yoon and David Saurí

Water 2024, 16(11), 1496; DOI: 10.3390/w16111496

Article: Assessing the Effects of Environmental Flows on Water Quality for Urban Supply

Syrine Ghannem, Javier Paredes-Arquiola, Rafael J. Bergillos, Abel Solera and Joaquín Andreu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1509; DOI: 10.3390/w16111509

Article: Groundwater Depletion. Are Environmentally Friendly Energy Recharge Dams a Solution?

Nerantzis Kazakis, Diamantis Karakatsanis, Maria Margarita Ntona, Konstantinos Polydoropoulos, Efthymia Zavridou, Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri, Gianluigi Busico, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Thomas Patsialis, Martha Perdikaki, Panagiotis Tsourlos, Andreas Kallioras, Nicolaos Theodossiou, Fotios-Konstantinos Pliakas, Panagiotis Angelidis, Theodoros Mavromatis, Olga Patrikaki and Konstantinos Voudouris

Water 2024, 16(11), 1541; DOI: 10.3390/w16111541

Article: An Environmental History of the First Attempts to Straighten the River Inn in Tyrol (1745–1792)

Reinhard Ferdinand Nießner

Water 2024, 16(11), 1568; DOI: 10.3390/w16111568

Article: Supporting Multi-Stakeholder Participation Processes: A Serious Game Application for Watershed Management in Colombia

Camilo Gonzalez, Angelica Moncada, Tania Fernanda Santos, Wilford Rincón, Cláudia Coleoni and Biljana Macura

Water 2024, 16(11), 1581; DOI: 10.3390/w16111581

Water Quality and Contamination

Article: Occurrence, Fate, and Mass Balance Analysis of Organophosphate Flame Retardants in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant in Hunan Province, China

Yang Liu, Yang Song, Haipu Li and Zhaoguang Yang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1462; DOI: 10.3390/w16111462

Article: Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-Based Water Quality Index (WQI) for Assessing Spatiotemporal Trends in Surface Water Quality—A Case Study of South African River Basins

Talent Diotrefe Banda and Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy

Water 2024, 16(11), 1485; DOI: 10.3390/w16111485

Article: Optimizing Sampling Strategies for Estimating Riverine Nutrient Loads in the Yiluo River Watershed, China

Guoshuai Zhang, Yanxue Xu, Min Xu, Zhonghua Li and Shunxing Qin

Water 2024, 16(11), 1506; DOI: 10.3390/w16111506

Article: Evaluation of Water and Sediment Quality in Lake Mogan, Türkiye

Kagan Ozdemir, Mirac Nur Ciner, Huseyin Kurtulus Ozcan and Serdar Aydın

Water 2024, 16(11), 1546; DOI: 10.3390/w16111546

Article: Geochemical Assessment of Heavy Metal Distribution in Bug River Sediments, Poland: The Impacts of Urbanization and Agricultural Practices

Elżbieta Skorbiłowicz, Piotr Ofman, Mirosław Skorbiłowicz, Marcin Sidoruk and Urszula Tarasiuk

Water 2024, 16(11), 1573; DOI: 10.3390/w16111573

Article: Water Intrusion: An Analysis of Water Sources, Categories, and the Degradation Science of Building Materials

Charles R. Norman, Kaysea L. Kelley, Colton Sanner, Sam Lueck, Jon Norman and Chuck Norrow

Water 2024, 16(11), 1576; DOI: 10.3390/w16111576

Article: Low-Flow Similarities between the Transboundary Lauter River and Rhine River at Maxau from 1956 to 2022 (France/Germany)

Xiaowei Liu and Carmen de Jong

Water 2024, 16(11), 1584; DOI: 10.3390/w16111584

Article: Estimation of Pollution Export Coefficients of Tea Farms and Its Application in Watershed Management

Chia-Chun Ho, Yu-Qian Su, Chi-Feng Chen, Yi-Xuan Lin and Hsiu-Feng Liu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1603; DOI: 10.3390/w16111603

Article: Application of a Bayesian-Based Integrated Approach for Groundwater Contamination Sources Parameter Identification Considering Observation Error

Xueman Yan and Yongkai An

Water 2024, 16(11), 1618; DOI: 10.3390/w16111618

Article: Research on Intelligent Chemical Dosing System for Phosphorus Removal in Wastewater Treatment Plants

Xi Lu, Song Huang, Haichen Liu, Fengwei Yang, Ting Zhang and Xinyu Wan

Water 2024, 16(11), 1623; DOI: 10.3390/w16111623

Editorial: Sources, Risks, and Remediation Technologies of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments

Jing Liu, Weiying Feng and Fang Yang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1532; DOI: 10.3390/w16111532

Urban Water Management

Review: Leakages in Water Distribution Networks: Estimation Methods, Influential Factors, and Mitigation Strategies—A Comprehensive Review

Athanasios V. Serafeim, Nikolaos Th. Fourniotis, Roberto Deidda, George Kokosalakis and Andreas Langousis

Water 2024, 16(11), 1534; DOI: 10.3390/w16111534

Review: How Scale Influences the Resilience of Urban Water Systems: A Literature Review of Trade-Offs and Recommendations

Nicole Arnaud, Manel Poch, Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Lluis Corominas and Marta Verdaguer

Water 2024, 16(11), 1571; DOI: 10.3390/w16111571

Review: Exploring Herbaceous Plant Biodiversity Design in Chinese Rain Gardens: A Literature Review

Lin Shi, Sreetheran Maruthaveeran, Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof, Jing Zhao and Ruosha Liu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1586; DOI: 10.3390/w16111586

Article: A Novel GIS-SWMM-ABM Approach for Flood Risk Assessment in Data-Scarce Urban Drainage Systems

Shakeel Ahmad, Haifeng Jia, Anam Ashraf, Dingkun Yin, Zhengxia Chen, Rasheed Ahmed and Muhammad Israr

Water 2024, 16(11), 1464; DOI: 10.3390/w16111464

Article: Hydraulic Connectiveness Metric for the Analysis of Criticality in Water Distribution Networks

Malvin S. Marlim and Doosun Kang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1498; DOI: 10.3390/w16111498

Article: CuFeS₂/MXene-Modified Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membrane for Antibiotics Removal through Peroxymonosulfate Activation

Dongyang Zhang, Kunfu Li, Lei Fang and Huishan Chen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1504; DOI: 10.3390/w16111504

Article: Analysis of Calcium Carbonate Scales in Water Distribution Systems and Influence of the Electromagnetic Treatment

Nuria Boluda-Botella, María Dolores Saquete, Sergio Martínez-Moya, Carlos Augusto Morales-Paredes and Joan Manuel Rodríguez-Díaz

Water 2024, 16(11), 1554; DOI: 10.3390/w16111554

Article: Risk Identification of Mountain Torrent Hazard Using Machine Learning and Bayesian Model Averaging Techniques

Ya Chu, Weifeng Song and Dongbin Chen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1556; DOI: 10.3390/w16111556

Article: Microplastic Transportation in a Typical Drinking Water Supply: From Raw Water to Household Water

Xiangying Sun, Yunjie Zhu, Lihui An, Yan Liu, Yin Zhuang, Yubang Wang, Mingdong Sun and Qiujin Xu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1567; DOI: 10.3390/w16111567

Article: Economic Feasibility of Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Reuse in a Multifamily Building

Enedir Ghisi and Douglas Ancelmo Freitas

Water 2024, 16(11), 1580; DOI: 10.3390/w16111580

Article: Research on the Method of Determining Rainfall Thresholds for Waterlogging Risk in Subway Stations

Xinxin Xu, Zhuolun Li, Mengge Wang, Haozheng Wang and Yongwei Gong

Water 2024, 16(11), 1596; DOI: 10.3390/w16111596

Article: A Modified Manning’s Equation for Estimating Flow Rate in Grass Swales under Low Inflow Rate Conditions

Jianlong Wang, Rongting Qiu, Xu Xia, Xiaoning Li, Changhe Zhang and Wenhai Wang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1613; DOI: 10.3390/w16111613

Article: Effect of Green Infrastructure with Different Woody Plant Root Systems on the Reduction of Runoff Nitrogen

Bei Zhang, Liang Chen and Taolve Gao

Water 2024, 16(11), 1628; DOI: 10.3390/w16111628

Editorial: New Advances in Rainwater Harvesting and Treatment

Anita Raimondi, Ruth Quinn, Ilaria Gnecco and Avi Ostfeld

Water 2024, 16(11), 1591; DOI: 10.3390/w16111591

 

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Article: Structural Analysis and Optimization of Ultra-High-Speed Centrifugal Pump Rotor System Considering Fluid–Structure Interaction

Shebin Yan, Zhifeng Ye, Dezhao Wang, Ji Ma and Wenjie Zhou

Water 2024, 16(11), 1471; DOI: 10.3390/w16111471

Article: Bankline Abutment Scour in Compound Channels

Ahmed A. Abdelaziz, Siow Y. Lim and Jong R. Kim

Water 2024, 16(11), 1479; DOI: 10.3390/w16111479

Article: Optimization of Hydraulic Efficiency and Internal Flow Characteristics of a Multi-Stage Pump Using RBF Neural Network

Lei Zhang, Dayong Wang, Gang Yang, Qiang Pan, Weidong Shi and Ruijie Zhao

Water 2024, 16(11), 1488; DOI: 10.3390/w16111488

Article: Research on the Flow Characteristics of Power-Law Fluids in Self-Priming Sewage Pumps

Xukan Li, Shuihua Zheng, Zhenghao Shao, Mingjie Xu, Yiliang Li, Qing Huang, Min Chai and Zenan Sun

Water 2024, 16(11), 1526; DOI: 10.3390/w16111526

Article: Physical and Numerical Modeling of Flow in a Meandering Channel

Cem Yılmazer and H. Anıl Arı Güner

Water 2024, 16(11), 1547; DOI: 10.3390/w16111547

Article: Experimental Study on the Sloshing of a Rectangular Tank under Pitch Excitations

Kun Liu, Xianshu Li, Peng Peng, Zefeng Zhou and Zhenguo Gao

Water 2024, 16(11), 1551; DOI: 10.3390/w16111551

Article: Hydrodynamic Simulation of Urban Waterlogging Based on an Improved Vertical Flow Exchange Method

Xi Jin and Yan Mu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1563; DOI: 10.3390/w16111563

Article: Improvements to the Hydraulic Performance of Culverts under Inlet Control Conditions by Optimisation of Inlet Characteristics

Leon de Jager and Marco van Dijk

Water 2024, 16(11), 1569; DOI: 10.3390/w16111569

Article: A Study on the Shape of Parabolic Aeration Facilities with Local Steepness in Slow Slope Chutes

Yuping Dong, Guodong Li, Shaobin Liu, Shanshan Li, Pengfeng Li and Yong Wei

Water 2024, 16(11), 1574; DOI: 10.3390/w16111574

Article: Analysis of the Effectiveness of Water Hammer Protection Programs for Complex Long-Distance and High-Head Water Supply Projects

Yuan Tang, Yixiong Cheng, Lixia Shen, Jianhua Wu, Yusheng Zhang, Qianxi Li and Lixian Yuan

Water 2024, 16(11), 1582; DOI: 10.3390/w16111582

Article: Durability Analysis of Concrete Cutoff Wall of Earth-Rock Dams Considering Seepage and Dissolution Coupling Effect

Chunhui Guo, Jun Lu, Zhiyu Song, Han Li, Wenbing Zhang and Yingyu Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1590; DOI: 10.3390/w16111590

Article: Influence of Impeller Structure Parameters on the Hydraulic Performance and Casting Molding of Spiral Centrifugal Pumps

Chao Wang, Yin Luo, Zihan Li, Zhenhua Shen and Daoxing Ye

Water 2024, 16(11), 1598; DOI: 10.3390/w16111598

Article: The Influence of Different Working Fluid Temperatures on the Hydraulic Performance of Magnetic Vortex Pumps

Yijia Cheng, Wei Li, Sizhuo Ma, Leilei Ji, Cui Xiao and Yongkang Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1601; DOI: 10.3390/w16111601

Article: Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Vortex Pump with Various Axial Clearances

Ling Zhou, Chuan Zhou, Ling Bai and Ramesh Agarwal

Water 2024, 16(11), 1602; DOI: 10.3390/w16111602

Article: MOC-Z Model of Transient Cavitating Flow in Viscoelastic Pipe

Giuseppe Pezzinga

Water 2024, 16(11), 1610; DOI: 10.3390/w16111610

Article: Seepage–Deformation Coupling Analysis of a Core Wall Rockfill Dam Subject to Rapid Fluctuations in the Reservoir Water Level

Xueqin Zheng, Bin Yan, Wei Wang, Kenan Du and Yixiang Fang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1621; DOI: 10.3390/w16111621

Article: Numerical Investigation of Different Stepped Spillway Geometries over a Mild Slope for Safe Operation Using Multi-Phase Model

Binaya Raj Pandey, Megh Raj K C, Brian Crookston and Gerald Zenz

Water 2024, 16(11), 1635; DOI: 10.3390/w16111635

Technical Note: Estimating Effective Light Exposure by Property-Tracking Tracers

Edward Gross, Rusty Holleman, Eric Deleersnijder and Eric J. M. Delhez

Water 2024, 16(11), 1469; DOI: 10.3390/w16111469

Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems

Review: Natural Factors of Microplastics Distribution and Migration in Water: A Review

Xianjin An, Yanling Wang, Muhammad Adnan, Wei Li and Yaqin Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1595; DOI: 10.3390/w16111595

Article: Assessing the Impacts of Changing Connectivity of Hydropower Dams on the Distribution of Fish Species in the 3S Rivers, a Tributary of the Lower Mekong

Peter-John Meynell, Marc J. Metzger and Neil Stuart

Water 2024, 16(11), 1505; DOI: 10.3390/w16111505

Article: Temperature-Dependent Mixotrophy in Natural Populations of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis

So Hyun Ahn and Patricia M. Glibert

Water 2024, 16(11), 1555; DOI: 10.3390/w16111555

Article: Accumulation Patterns of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins, Dibenzofurans and Dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Sediments of the South-Eastern Baltic Sea

Grażyna Dembska, Grażyna Pazikowska-Sapota, Katarzyna Galer-Tatarowicz, Agnieszka Flasińska, Sergej Suzdalev, Aleksandra Bojke, Maria Kubacka and Adam Grochowalski

Water 2024, 16(11), 1605; DOI: 10.3390/w16111605

Article: Antibiotics in Wastewater Treatment Plants in Tangshan: Perspectives on Temporal Variation, Residents’ Use and Ecological Risk Assessment

Zhuo Dong, Jian Hu, Pengjie Wang, Gengtao Han and Zheng Jia

Water 2024, 16(11), 1627; DOI: 10.3390/w16111627

Editorial: Ecological Monitoring and Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems: New Trends and Future Challenges

Konstantinos Stefanidis and Eva Papastergiadou

Water 2024, 16(11), 1460; DOI: 10.3390/w16111460

Brief Report: Study on Ferritin Gene Expression to Evaluate the Health of White Leg Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Postlarvae Due to Changes in Water Temperature, Salinity, and pH

Chul-Won Kim, Ju-Wook Lee, Seung-Won Kang and Han-Seung Kang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1477; DOI: 10.3390/w16111477

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Article: Measuring the Gains and Losses of Virtual Water Flows in China’s Coastal Areas

Liangshi Zhao and Shuang Yang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1518; DOI: 10.3390/w16111518

Article: Predictability of Hurricane Storm Surge: An Ensemble Forecasting Approach Using Global Atmospheric Model Data

Rebecca E. Morss, David Ahijevych, Kathryn R. Fossell, Alex M. Kowaleski and Christopher A. Davis

Water 2024, 16(11), 1523; DOI: 10.3390/w16111523

Article: Occurrence and Mitigation of Bacterial Regrowth in Stored Household Water in Eastern Coastal Madagascar

Lauren A. Judah, Cathy Andriambololonirina, Lova Rakotoarisoa, Luke John Paul Barrett, Mahmooda Khaliq, James R. Mihelcic and Jeffrey A. Cunningham

Water 2024, 16(11), 1592; DOI: 10.3390/w16111592

Article: Factors Controlling the Formation and Evolution of a Beach Zone in Front of a Coastal Cliff: The Case of the East Coast of Evia Island in the Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean

Serafeim Poulos, Stamatina Lesioti, Aikaterini Karditsa and Christos Angelopoulos

Water 2024, 16(11), 1622; DOI: 10.3390/w16111622

Water Use and Scarcity

Article: A Water Shortage Risk Assessment Model Based on Kernel Density Estimation and Copulas

Tanghui Qian, Zhengtao Shi, Shixiang Gu, Wenfei Xi, Jing Chen, Jinming Chen, Shihan Bai and Lei Wu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1465; DOI: 10.3390/w16111465

Article: Wastewater and Grey Water Footprint Assessment of the Olive Oil Production Process in Northwest Argentina

Evelyn Vuksinic, Roberto Esteban Miguel, Maite M. Aldaya and Corina Iris Rodriguez

Water 2024, 16(11), 1612; DOI: 10.3390/w16111612

Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture

Article: Evaluation of the Effect of Agricultural Return Flow on Water Quality, Water Quantity and Aquatic Ecology in Downstream Rivers

Taeseong Kang, Yongchul Shin, Minhwan Shin, Dongjun Lee, Kyoung Jae Lim and Jonggun Kim

Water 2024, 16(11), 1604; DOI: 10.3390/w16111604

General

Review: Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century

Doru Bănăduc, Angela Curtean-Bănăduc, Sophia Barinova, Verónica L. Lozano, Sergey Afanasyev, Tamara Leite, Paulo Branco, Daniel F. Gomez Isaza, Juergen Geist, Aristoteles Tegos, Horea Olosutean and Kevin Cianfanglione

Water 2024, 16(11), 1483; DOI: 10.3390/w16111483

Article: Dynamic Behavior and Mechanism of Transient Fluid–Structure Interaction in Viscoelastic Pipes Based on Energy Analysis

Ying Xu, Shuang Zhang, Linfeng Zhou, Haoran Ning and Kai Wu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1468; DOI: 10.3390/w16111468

Article: On the Optimized Management of Activated Distributed Storage Systems: A Novel Approach to Flood Mitigation

Riley Post, Felipe Quintero and Witold F. Krajewski

Water 2024, 16(11), 1476; DOI: 10.3390/w16111476

Article: Combination of Precipitation-Adsorption-Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis for Mine Water Treatment

Xiujuan Feng, Du Cen and Yonghui Wu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1474; DOI: 10.3390/w16111474

Article: Validation and Application of the Diffusive Gradients in Thin-Films Technique for In Situ Measurement of β-Blocker Drugs in Waters and Sediments

Yanying Li, Mingzhe Wu, Mengnan Fu, Dongqin Tan, Peng Zhang, Zhimin Zhou and Xiaoyan Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1478; DOI: 10.3390/w16111478

Article: Explicit Scheme for a Hydrological Channel Routing: Mathematical Model and Practical Application

Alfonso Arrieta-Pastrana, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández and Jairo R. Coronado-Hernández

Water 2024, 16(11), 1480; DOI: 10.3390/w16111480

Article: Characteristics of Anthropogenic Pollution in the Atmospheric Air of South-Western Svalbard (Hornsund, Spring 2019)

Filip Pawlak, Krystyna Koziol, Wanda Wilczyńska-Michalik, Mikołaj Worosz, Marek Michalik, Sara Lehmann-Konera and Żaneta Polkowska

Water 2024, 16(11), 1486; DOI: 10.3390/w16111486

Article: Landscape Pattern Changes of Aquatic Vegetation Communities and Their Response to Hydrological Processes in Poyang Lake, China

Zhengtao Zhu, Huilin Wang, Zhonghua Yang, Wenxin Huai, Dong Huang and Xiaohong Chen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1482; DOI: 10.3390/w16111482

Article: Mapping of Groundwater Recharge Zones in Hard Rock Aquifer through Analytic Hierarchy Process in Geospatial Platform

Deepa Subramani, Pradeep Kamaraj, Umayadoss Saravana Kumar and Chidambaram Sabarathinam

Water 2024, 16(11), 1484; DOI: 10.3390/w16111484

Article: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Phytoplankton and Their Relationship with Environmental Factors in the Jinjiang River, China

Yanping Zhong, Mingjiang Cai, Jin Cui, Xinping Chen, Shuhua Wang, Zhenguo Chen and Shanshan Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1497; DOI: 10.3390/w16111497

Article: Soil Hydrothermal Dynamics in the Hengduan Mountains of Southeast Tibet and Associated Influencing Factors

Lingling Meng, Zhaofeng Li, Qiang Zhang and Xinpeng Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1495; DOI: 10.3390/w16111495

Article: Investigation of Kinetic, Equilibrium, and Thermodynamic Modeling of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Adsorption in the Presence of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) by Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma-Modified Granular Activated Carbon (GAC)

Thera Sahara, Doonyapong Wongsawaeng, Kanokwan Ngaosuwan, Worapon Kiatkittipong, Peter Hosemann and Suttichai Assabumrungrat

Water 2024, 16(11), 1499; DOI: 10.3390/w16111499

Article: Utilizing Data-Driven Approaches to Forecast Fluctuations in Groundwater Table

Majid Mirzaei and Adel Shirmohammadi

Water 2024, 16(11), 1500; DOI: 10.3390/w16111500

Article: The Relationship between Reference Crop Evapotranspiration Change Characteristics and Meteorological Factors in Typical Areas of the Middle of the Dry-Hot Valley of Jinsha River

Zhifeng Luo, Yongyu Sun, Guoyong Tang, Zhenmin He, Lingxiao Peng, Danhui Qi and Zhaorong Ou

Water 2024, 16(11), 1512; DOI: 10.3390/w16111512

Article: Multispectral Inversion of Citrus Multi-Slope Evapotranspiration by UAV Based on Modified RSEB Model

Shijiang Zhu, Zhiwei Zhang, Chenfei Duan, Zhen Lin, Kun Hao, Hu Li and Yun Zhong

Water 2024, 16(11), 1520; DOI: 10.3390/w16111520

Article: Hydrochemical Characteristics, Mechanisms of Formation, and Sources of Different Water Bodies in the Northwest Coal–Electricity Agglomeration Area

Xuan Han, Lei Huang, Junli Gan, Mengfan Yang, Guangyan Zhu, Yanna Li and Jiang Xu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1521; DOI: 10.3390/w16111521

Article: Exploring Groundwater Quality Trends in Valliyar Sub-Basin, Kanniyakumari District, India through Advanced Machine Learning Techniques

Bhagavathi Krishnan Ramesh and Sankararajan Vanitha

Water 2024, 16(11), 1531; DOI: 10.3390/w16111531

Article: Investigation of the Influence of Reed Vegetation on the Hydraulic Characteristics of the Huai River Inflow Channel

Jin Zhang, Li Cheng, Bowen Zhang, Mingbin Yuan, Shuo Jia, Deyin Miao and Caian Huang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1540; DOI: 10.3390/w16111540

Article: Do Submerged Macrophytes Influence the Response of Zooplankton and Benthic Ostracoda to NaCl Salinity Gradients in Shallow Tropical Lakes?

Tao Chen, Liyan Yin, Wei Li, Jiaquan Huang, Xiaohang Zhang and Yu Cao

Water 2024, 16(11), 1542; DOI: 10.3390/w16111542

Article: Investigating the Hydrological Relationship between the North Taihang Tunnel and Tianshengqiao Nine Falls

Xinfeng Wang, Lei Gong, Yuanqing Liu, Yan Wang, Qingang Wang, Mian Song, Pan Xiao and Zheming Shi

Water 2024, 16(11), 1549; DOI: 10.3390/w16111549

Article: Microorganisms Directly Affected Sediment Carbon–Nitrogen Coupling in Two Constructed Wetlands

Yan Wang, Jiaohui Fang, Xin Li, Changchao Li, Yongkang Zhao and Jian Liu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1550; DOI: 10.3390/w16111550

Article: Inter-Comparison of Multiple Gridded Precipitation Datasets over Different Climates at Global Scale

Wenyan Qi, Shuhong Wang and Jianlong Chen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1553; DOI: 10.3390/w16111553

Article: Kinetics of Obtaining Microalgal Biomass and Removal of Organic Contaminants in Photobioreactors Operated with Microalgae—Study Case: Treatment of Wastewater from a Poultry Slaughterhouse

Solmaría Mandi Pérez-Guzmán, Eduardo Hernández-Aguilar, Alejandro Alvarado-Lassman and Juan Manuel Méndez-Contreras

Water 2024, 16(11), 1558; DOI: 10.3390/w16111558

Article: An Evaluation and Reduction Approach for the Ground Vibration Induced by High Dam Flood Discharge

Jijian Lian, Yan Zheng, Chao Liang, Yutong Li, Bin Ma, Fang Liu and Ye Yao

Water 2024, 16(11), 1559; DOI: 10.3390/w16111559

Article: Copula-Probabilistic Flood Risk Analysis with an Hourly Flood Monitoring Index

Ravinesh Chand, Thong Nguyen-Huy, Ravinesh C. Deo, Sujan Ghimire, Mumtaz Ali and Afshin Ghahramani

Water 2024, 16(11), 1560; DOI: 10.3390/w16111560

Article: Hydrochemical Characteristics and Origin Analysis of Groundwater in Nanling County, Anhui Province

Mingjiang Yan, Lu Wang, Qian Wang and Zhongpei Liu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1579; DOI: 10.3390/w16111579

Article: Isotope Hydrology and Hydrogeochemical Signatures in the Lake Malawi Basin: A Multi-Tracer Approach for Groundwater Resource Conceptualisation

Limbikani C. Banda, Robert M. Kalin and Vernon Phoenix

Water 2024, 16(11), 1587; DOI: 10.3390/w16111587

Article: Water Flow Prediction Based on Improved Spatiotemporal Attention Mechanism of Long Short-Term Memory Network

Wenwen Hu, Yongchuan Yu, Jianzhuo Yan, Zhe Zhao, Wenxue Sun and Xumeng Shen

Water 2024, 16(11), 1600; DOI: 10.3390/w16111600

Article: Synergic Origin and Evolution of TDS, Mg and Fluoride in Groundwater as Relative to Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka

K. S. G. S. Priyadarshanee, Zhonghe Pang, E. A. N. V. Edirisinghe, H. M. T. G. A. Pitawala, J. D. C. Gunasekara, W. M. G. S. Wijesooriya, Yinlei Hao, Yifan Bao and Jiao Tian

Water 2024, 16(11), 1606; DOI: 10.3390/w16111606

Article: Modelling Trends in Urban Flood Resilience towards Improving the Adaptability of Cities

Wenping Xu, Xinyan Cai, Qimeng Yu, David Proverbs and Ting Xia

Water 2024, 16(11), 1614; DOI: 10.3390/w16111614

Article: Integrated Assessment of Ecological Quality Combining Biological and Environmental Data in the Yellow River Estuary

Xin Gao, Wen Li, Yunlei Zhang, Hongjun Song, Ying Li and Hongjun Li

Water 2024, 16(11), 1615; DOI: 10.3390/w16111615

Article: Spatiotemporal Assessment of Water Pollution for Beira Lake, Sri Lanka

Sangeeth Prasad, Yuansong Wei, Tushara Chaminda, Tharindu Ritigala, Lijun Yu, K. B. S. N. Jinadasa, H. M. S. Wasana, Suresh Indika, Isuru Yapabandara, Dazhou Hu, Madhubhashini Makehelwala, Sujithra K. Weragoda, Jianfeng Zhu and Zongke Zhang

Water 2024, 16(11), 1616; DOI: 10.3390/w16111616

Article: Demonstration of Proactive Algaecide Treatments Targeting Overwintering Cyanobacteria in Sediments of an Urban Pond

Alyssa Calomeni-Eck, Andrew McQueen, Ciera Kinley-Baird, Elizabeth Smith, Benjamin Growcock, Katlynn Decker, Schad Hampton, Anthony Stahl, Marvin Boyer and Gerard Clyde

Water 2024, 16(11), 1624; DOI: 10.3390/w16111624

Article: Development of a Lightweight Floating Object Detection Algorithm

Rundong Xian, Lijun Tang and Shenbo Liu

Water 2024, 16(11), 1633; DOI: 10.3390/w16111633

Article: Reflection of Daily, Seasonal and Interannual Variations in Run-Off of a Small River in the Water Isotopic Composition (δ²H, δ¹⁸O): A Case of the Ala-Archa Mountain River Basin with Glaciation (Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia)

Igor Tokarev, Evgeny Yakovlev, Sergey Erokhin, Tamara Tuzova, Sergey Druzhinin and Andrey Puchkov

Water 2024, 16(11), 1632; D

 

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Water - MDPI: Most Notable Articles (March–May 2024)

Water Quality and Contamination Transport of Floating Plastics through the Fluvial Vector: The Impact of Riparian Zones Manousos Valyrakis et al.		Water and Climate Change Enhancing Peak Runoff Forecasting through Feature Engineering Applied to X-Band Radar Data Julio Álvarez-Estrella et al.
Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance Adapting Water Resources Management to Climate Change in Water-Stressed River Basins—Júcar River Basin Case Clara Estrela-Segrelles et al.		General In a Good Way: Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems to Understand and Restore Freshwater Systems Samantha Mehltretter et al.
Water Quality and Contamination Water Quality of Roof-Harvested Drinking Water Tanks in a Rural Area near a Gold and Copper Mine: Potential Health Risk from a Layer of Metal-Enriched Water and Sediment Ian A. Wright et al.		Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance Decolonizing Indigenous Drinking Water Challenges and Implications: Focusing on Indigenous Water Governance and Sovereignty Margot Hurlbert et al.
Water Use and Scarcity Are Non-conventional Water Resources the Solution for the Structural Water Deficit in Mediterranean Agriculture? The Case of the Segura River Basin in Spain Almudena Gómez-Ramos et al.		Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance Enhancing Transboundary Freshwater Security: From Online Learning to Global Knowledge Exchange Platform Yumiko Yasuda et al.
General Water Colour Changes in High-Elevation Alpine Lakes during 2017–2022: A Case Study of the Upper Orco Valley Catchment Erica Matta et al.		Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Using Bacteriophages to Treat Resilient Bacteria Found in Produced Water Ramon Sanchez-Rosario et al.

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The items below are posted by Elaine J. Hanford: 

Geoscience Bulletin Board – 10 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

McDermitt Caldera – one of the oldest complexes in the Yellowstone series

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/mcdermitt-caldera-early-caldera-yellowstone-hotspot-track 

Modern intertidal stromatolites on Sheybarah Island on the NE shelf of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia

• https://phys.org/news/2024-05-vestiges-life-earth-saudi-arabia.html 
• https://thedebrief.org/new-study-says-life-on-earth-may-have-originated-in-saudi-arabia-3-48-billion-years-ago/ 
• Paper:  https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/52/5/347/634859/Discovery-of-modern-living-intertidal 

Greece was part of lost continent “Greater Adria” more than 200 myo

• https://greekreporter.com/2024/05/31/greece-part-lost-continent-greater-adria/ 

World Meteorological Organization predicts 50/50 chance of neutral or La Niña conditions this year

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-la-nia-year.html 

Toward improved understanding of the process of snow sublimation in alpine regions

• https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-gains-mystery.html 
• Paper:  https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-23-0191.1/BAMS-D-23-0191.1.xml?tab_body=pdf 

Mud at Unbound Gravel 2024 in Lyon County presents dangers for cyclists – “north mud is different than south mud”

• https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/why-is-unbound-gravel-mud-so-bad-how-can-racers-cope-and-can-we-predict-where-the-worst-sections-will-be-in-2024/  

A model of significant drop in CO2 levels and continental erosion caused Snowball Earth during Sturtian Ice Age

• https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/02/08/geoscientists-discover-what-turned-snowball-earth-sturtian-ice-age-earthbyte.html 
• Paper:  https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/52/4/292/633748/Duration-of-Sturtian-Snowball-Earth-glaciation 

Climate divisions now defined in Hawaii by temperature & precipitation

• https://eos.org/articles/finally-hawaii-gets-its-own-climate-divisions 
• Paper:  https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-23-0236.1/BAMS-D-23-0236.1.xml?tab_body=pdf 

Reduced dust in parts of Asia may be linked to rising Arctic temperatures impacting wind & precipitation patterns

• https://eos.org/articles/dust-declines-in-parts-of-asia-may-be-caused-by-the-warming-arctic 
• Paper:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317444121

Sediment core samples from West Antarctica of likely river delta or estuary during the Eocene

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-core-sediment-samples-west-antarctica.html
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn6056 

Swiss Seismological Service using seismic events to detect suspected landslides

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/switzerland-seismic-1 

Satellite imagery of 2024 tailings failure at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/siana-3 

Assessment of potential for undiscovered conventional O&G resources in layers stratigraphically younger than late Aptian salt in West-Central Coastal Province of Africa

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/assessment-undiscovered-conventional-oil-and-gas-resources-postsalt-reservoirs-west
• USGS Fact Sheet 2024-3011:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2024/3011/fs20243011.pdf 

Pineapple-sized hail stone in Texas will likely be new state record

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-hail-stone-size-pineapple-texas.html 

Seismic upgrading early-warning system in California & Pacific Northwest in advance of the Big One

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-faster-california-megaquakes-early-major.html 

Evidence of conditions on Earth found in 4 byo zircon crystals from Jack Hills in Western Australia

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/freshwater-earth-ancient-crystal-years

Juvenile T. rex fossil was discovered in Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota by kids

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/kids-discover-tyrannosaurus-rex-fossil-in-north-dakota-180984470/ 

NASA creates interactive global map of sea surface temperatures – short-term view of long-term cycles

• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps/MYD28M 

Improved understanding of impact of ocean basin geometry on climate

• https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-unexpected-impact-of-ocean-floor-geometry-on-climate/ 

“History of Carbon Dioxide Emissions” – just look at the data and realize why the whole “man-made global warming” concept is just myth – if CO2 emissions were causing “global warming” then the temperature graph would also reflect that 182X increase

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/06/the-history-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions/ 

Latest hype on “man-made global warming” 

• https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-rate-of-human-caused-global-warming-at-all-time-high/ 
• https://www.earth-system-science-data.net/about/news_and_press/2024-06-05_indicators-of-global-climate-change-2023-annual-update-of-large-scale-indicators-of-the-state-of-the-climate-system-and-human-influence.html 

Visualizing acres burned by US wildfires since 1983 – acreage does not correlate with number of wildfires

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/four-decades-of-u-s-wildfires-1983-2024/ 
• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/40-years-of-u-s-wildfires-in-one-chart/ 

Pachystropheus rhaeticus – enigmatic Late Triassic sea lizard behaved like an otter and moved on land

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/pachystropheus-rhaeticus-12995.html 
• Paper:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2350408 

Parvodus ominechonensis – new Late Triassic hybodontiform freshwater shark in Momonoki Formation in Japan

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/parvodus-ominechonensis-12990.html 
• Paper:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2322749 

Jurassic pterodactyl fossil found in Kimmeridge Clay Formation near Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England, had wingspan up to 12.3 feet - one of the largest known 

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/abingdon-pterosaur-12989.html 

British Geological Survey releases 8,000 technical reports from 1950-2000 on its website

• https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/8000-technical-reports-released-by-bgs/ 

Landslide forces closure of highway to Teton Pass

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/catastrophic-landslide-closes-critical-mountain-highway-between-wyoming-and-idaho/ar-BB1nSDxk
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/massive-chunk-of-wyoming-s-teton-pass-crumbles-unclear-how-quickly-the-road-can-be-rebuilt/ar-BB1nSHip 

British Geological Survey issues UK Minerals Yearbook 2023 (with link to download)

• https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/uk-minerals-yearbook-2023-now-available-to-download/ 

Largest dinosaur track site in America along Picketwire Canyon Trail in SW Colorado

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/explore-the-largest-known-dinosaur-track-site-in-america-on-this-historic-colorado-hike/ar-BB1mFmZu

“The Geological Story of the Corps of Discovery in Montana” in the ‘footsteps’ of Lewis & Clark

• https://mtech.edu/news/2024/06/new-montana-bureau-of-mines-and-geology-video-follows-corps-of-discovery-journey-with-attention-to-geologic-history.html 
• Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rLKfufpT-Q&t=26s 

Geology of the San Jacinto Mountains above Coachella Valley, California

• https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2024/06/08/san-jacinto-mountains-palm-springs-area/74014880007/ 

Geological survey for East Kellogg expansion project in Kansas

• https://www.kake.com/story/50876007/east-kellogg-expansion-project-undergoes-geological-survey

Perspective:  “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice” – value of geosciences

• https://www.idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/opinion-geology-and-civilization/article_db58ec16-2468-11ef-a112-b7c2eaeae4d1.html 

Geological character of the Denali Fault in Alaska

• https://studyfinds.org/alaska-denali-fault/ 

Geological history and formations of Florida

• https://floridadep.gov/fgs/geologic-topics/content/floridas-geologic-history-and-formations 

Water in the crust of the Earth

• https://www.worldatlas.com/geology/how-much-water-is-in-earth-s-crust.html 

Alarming versus catastrophic – Cascadia mega-fault section

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-difference-between-alarming-and-catastrophic-cascadia-megafault-has-1-especially-deadly-section-new-map-reveals
• https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/06/08/cascadia-subduction-zone-one-of-earths-top-hazards-comes-into-sharper-focus/ 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198 
• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1046895 

Washington Office of National Forest System now oversees lands, minerals & geology

• https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/leadership/lands-minerals-geology-now-under-one-umbrella 

Perspective:  Carbon sequestration – green windfall or hot air?

• https://www.geologyforinvestors.com/carbon-sequestration-green-windfall-or-hot-air/

“Visible Geology” – free gaming-style web application to teach earth science

• https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/05062024/science-meets-gaming-seequent-launches-app-to-combat-global-shortage-of-earth-scientists/ 

The Anthropocene did not get approved but the Meghalayan did and represents that last 4,250 years since start of mega-drought - Holocene now includes Greenlandian (Early), Northgrippian (Middle) and Meghalayan (Late) Ages

• https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/news/apos-living-geologic-age-meghalayan-194806105.html 

Traces of the first rain on Earth

• https://universemagazine.com/en/scientists-find-traces-of-the-first-rain-on-earth/ 

Top 10 mining schools in the World

• https://miningdigital.com/top10/top-10-mining-schools-in-the-world 

How feasible is it to convert Rough gas storage facility to hydrogen storage?

• https://geoexpro.com/hydrogen-storage-in-a-depleted-gas-reservoir-how-easy-is-that/ 

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 10 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

What if humans created no waste? (6-minute video)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbL7Mv2MFw 

Proposed legislation presents counterpoint to 2022 Rosemont decision regarding mining on federal lands

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31052024/congress-bill-federal-land-mining-rights/ 

Santee Sioux Nation in northeast Nebraska has been under no-drink order since 2019 – manganese exceeding EPA health advisory levels by about 10X – federal government has not responded with help

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26052024/santee-nebraska-manganese-drinking-water/ 

System Conservation Pilot Program is just another federal subsidy – when will politicians understand that subsidies do not work?  For Colorado River costs & “sacrifices” outweigh the “savings”

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02062024/colorado-river-upper-basin-conservation-program/ 

Self-imposed consequences for decision to “stroll” along Natisone River during dangerous flood levels also put rescue service personnel at grave risk

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/three-friends-filmed-final-embrace-122646229.html 

Tire pollution from EVs needs to be recognized – a significant threat (at least 26% more than gasoline-powered vehicles) to health & the ecosystem

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/the-hidden-environmental-price-of-going-electric/ar-BB1jU2xA

Congressional hearing trying to get some truth from Fauci – Fauci is not a hero

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fauci-set-for-fiery-hearing-with-house-gop/ar-BB1ntLp4 
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/anthony-fauci-is-not-a-hero/ar-BB1nKZcu 

Contrary to politically driven moves against fossil fuels, report found methane emissions from natural gas decreased by 37% while production increased by 40% from 2015 to 2022 – used EPA data

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/green-orgs-new-study-challenges-rationale-behind-one-of-biden-s-biggest-crackdowns-on-major-energy-sector/ar-BB1nHoEd 
• Report:  https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/31103518/oil-gas-benchmarking-2024.pdf 

NASA updates estimates of methane emissions from US landfills

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/nasa-says-official-us-methane-estimate-is-wrong/ar-BB1nH8Sm 

Largest floating solar plant at Omkareshwar Dam in India damaged by storm

• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/storm-damages-worlds-biggest-floating-solar-plant/articleshow/109231119.cms

Duck Curve for power production & use in South Africa – most (78.5+ %) power still produced from fossil fuels while solar contributes just 4.3%

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/05/south-africa-gets-a-duck-curve/

How to deceive with statistics on EV sales – sell 5 more EVs than 10 sold last quarter is a 50% increase!!  OMG!!!

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/02/good-graph-for-people-misinformed-about-us-ev-sales-growth/

Skyscrapers in Mumbai Metropolitan Region to increase by 34% over next 6 years – already has population of 21+M with more than half of population living in slums

• https://www.deccanherald.com/business/mumbais-vertical-boom-mmr-to-see-34-growth-in-skyscrapers-with-40-floors-over-next-six-years-3046103 

EPA plan for long-term health & water monitoring at East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment site may not be enough – US District Court likely to approve settlement – indoor air quality testing program “inadequate”

• https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2024/06/03/epa-settlement-norfolk-southern-east-palestine-train-derailment/stories/202406010059
• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062024/east-palestine-train-derailment-settlements/ 

Be careful what you wish for – significant drop in CO2 levels led to Snowball Earth

• https://earthsky.org/earth/what-caused-snowball-earth-drop-in-greenhouse-gas/ 
• https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/02/08/geoscientists-discover-what-turned-snowball-earth-sturtian-ice-age-earthbyte.html 

Over-use and abuse of antibiotics created antibiotic resistance – now looking to famous Roman Baths for the next “panacea”

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1046556
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950194624000426 

Despite massive cost over-runs (2+ X original budget) & years of schedule delays Georga Governor calls for another expansion of Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant 

• https://thecurrentga.org/2024/05/31/kemp-calls-for-another-vogtle-expansion/ 
• True Cost Report:  https://thecurrentga.org/2024/05/31/kemp-calls-for-another-vogtle-expansion/ 

Biden finally issues executive order on illegal immigrants and limits to “asylum” seekers – too little, too late

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-reality-for-migrants-at-u-s-mexico-border-as-biden-asylum-ban-takes-effect/ar-BB1nHmVA 

What will new lawsuits targeting plastic pollution do?  Just like the climate lawsuits they will keep lots of attorneys employed! – but will likely not even begin to solve the real problem

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062024/lawsuits-targeting-plastic-pollution-pile-up-as-frustrated-citizens-and-states-seek-accountability/ 

How to influence human behavior – science communication that backfires despite “best intentions”

• https://theconversation.com/messages-can-trigger-the-opposite-of-their-desired-effect-but-you-can-avoid-communication-that-backfires-230844 

Consequences of Biden having sold off (and not replaced) nearly 50% of Strategic Petroleum Reserve

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-sold-off-nearly-50-of-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-is-that-a-problem/ar-BB1nJGzD 

Sounding the alarm on pharmaceutical pollution – long overdue

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-scientists-alarm-pharmaceutical-pollution-crisis.html 

The impacts of toilet paper on the environment – can demand for wood pulp and chemical contamination be reduced? - $107B annual sales

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/toilet-paper-takes-a-surprising-toll-on-the-environment-but-eco-friendly-alternatives-are-rolling-out/ar-BB1nctuB 
• https://aidenvironment.org/publications/tissue-paper-report/ 
• Report:  https://aidenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-08-04-Final-Less-than-15-MB-version-Worlds-Tissue-Paper-Companies.pdf 

Some species are more tolerant of urbanization

• https://theconversation.com/cities-contain-pockets-of-nature-our-study-shows-which-species-are-most-tolerant-of-urbanization-231042

Understanding the heat index – humans are acclimated to air conditioning & not the real world

• https://theconversation.com/heat-index-warnings-can-save-lives-on-dangerously-hot-days-if-people-understand-what-they-mean-229174 

Why cocaine was taken out of Coca-Cola

• https://daily.jstor.org/who-took-the-cocaine-out-of-coca-cola/ 

Assessing potential environmental impacts of mining uranium & other elements in Grand Canyon region

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/balancing-natural-resource-use-and-extraction-uranium-and-other-elements-grand-canyon
• USGS Fact Sheet 2024-3003:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2024/3003/fs20243003.pdf 

Irrigation with treated wastewater & sewage sludge introduces tire chemical additives into food supply

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-irrigation-wastewater-sewage-sludge-additives.html 
• Paper:  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1384506/full 

UN predicts surpassing 1.5 Celsius-degree Paris Accord climate target in next 5 years – Guess what?  It has already happened and the Earth has not ‘boiled’

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-agency-degree-celsius-limit-surpassed.html 

Can economic growth & protecting the environment be merged in Africa?

• https://theconversation.com/africa-doesnt-have-a-choice-between-economic-growth-and-protecting-the-environment-how-they-can-go-hand-in-hand-228529 

Yolo County Superior Court issued ruling on environmental challenges to siting new largest water reservoir in California – appeals likely to follow 

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-california-largest-reservoir-decades-environmental.html 

Habitat loss in migration zone “ruled out” as cause of monarch butterfly population decline

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/monarch-butterfly-decline-mystery-scientists-rule-out-habitat-loss 

First diagnosis of sexually transmitted fungal ringworm in the US

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/sexually-transmitted-fungal-infection-detected-185018109.html 

SCOTUS agrees with Native American tribes with regard to cost of health care

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/supreme-court-sides-with-native-american-tribes-in-health-care-funding-dispute-with-government/ar-BB1nKoBk 

Temperatures warming up in ski fields in Australia – will change tourism economy

• https://www.snowsbest.com/australia-climate-change-ski-season/ 
• Report:  https://protectourwinters.org.au/our-changing-snowscapes/ 

“Environmentally friendly” termite control uses naturally occurring pinene to draw insects to insecticide-treated areas as opposed to old fumigation techniques

• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/06/eco-friendly-termite-control-harnessing-natures-attractants/ 

Visualizing declining birth rates in 6 most populous countries over last 7 decades

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-declining-birth-rates-in-the-most-populous-countries-1950-today/ 

Visualizing top 10 deadliest animals for humans - other humans cause more deaths than next 8 animals

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-top-10-deadliest-animals-for-humans/ 

Rules changed at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Texas after giraffe lifted toddler from bed of pickup truck – people not allowed to ride through park in truck beds

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/drive-thru-wildlife-park-changing-rules-after-giraffe-incident/ar-BB1nOuG2

Rattlesnake roundups and slaughters are “barbaric, misguided events” – thousands slaughtered for entertainment

• https://e360.yale.edu/features/rattlesnake-roundups 
• https://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/rattlesnake-roundups/

 Do carbon offsets really work? – the simple answer is NO - they are just a scheme to make beaucoup money – millions of offsets were “worthless” which explains why federal government is now involved

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/06/do-carbon-offsets-really-work/

Nepal clean-up drives to save the Himalayas – total of 119 tonnes of waste (including human excrement), 14 human corpses and skeletal remains – average 5 tonnes per year

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nepal-removes-tonnes-of-rubbish-corpses-and-a-skeleton-from-mount-everest/ar-BB1nRjVj 

Celebrating 100 years of the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-celebrates-100-years-of-gila-wilderness-preservation/ar-BB1nw1er 

Recycling rate for glass varies from state to state ranging from 24% up to 63% and averaging only 33%

• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/06/only-33-of-glass-containers-are-recycled-in-the-u-s/ 
• Fact Sheet:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/627984b2cdcbb67e97f838e7/t/663cfce6fdd7b72abcd4c6e3/1715272937675/2023+GRF+Impact+Report+vfinal.pdf

“History of Carbon Dioxide Emissions” – just look at the data and realize why the whole “man-made global warming” concept is just myth – if CO2 emissions were causing “global warming” then the temperature graph would also reflect that 182X increase

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/06/the-history-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions/ 

Latest hype on “man-made global warming” 

• https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-rate-of-human-caused-global-warming-at-all-time-high/ 
• https://www.earth-system-science-data.net/about/news_and_press/2024-06-05_indicators-of-global-climate-change-2023-annual-update-of-large-scale-indicators-of-the-state-of-the-climate-system-and-human-influence.html 

Texas 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants list results in first arrest within hours – part of broader initiative to enhance public safety – criminals wanted for aggravated sexual assault, smuggling & burglary

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/greg-abbott-s-10-most-wanted-illegal-immigrants-list-finds-first-target/ar-BB1nP7LK 

1.26M acres per year of irrigated cropland abandoned in US – Ogallala Aquifer drying out due to over-pumping – about 53% reverted to grassland & pasture, 8.4% reverted to wetlands – less than 20% enrolled in USDA Conservation Reserve Program

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tens-of-millions-of-acres-of-cropland-lie-abandoned-study-shows/ar-BB1nRkYI 
• Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad2d12/pdf 

Proposed lithium mine in Nevada poses threat of extinction to unique endangered Tiehm’s buckwheat

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07062024/nevada-lithium-mine-threatens-endangered-wildflower/ 

“Net Zero carbon is highly unlikely outcome” and will be very expensive in trying to achieve 2050 goal

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-green-energy-transition-is-simply-not-happening-nor-will-it-happen-soon-or-cheaply/ar-BB1nQoIQ 
• Report:  https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/halfway-between-kyoto-and-2050.pdf 

“Fossil fuels industry isn’t the enemy.  The emissions are” if one believes the myth of man-made CO2 global warming

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-the-world-may-be-identifying-the-wrong-enemy/ar-BB1nQbYl 

Celebrity doctors promoted vaxxing on primetime UK television shows without disclosing they had been paid by AstraZeneca

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/celebrity-doctors-promoted-covid-vaccine-without-declaring-payments/ar-BB1nRGcG 

Louisville, Kentucky, takes first public step toward cleaning up “Gully of the Drums”

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07062024/louisville-kentucky-gully-of-the-drums-cleanup/ 

WHO Pandemic Treaty draft versus International Health Regulations – NO Treaty without Senate Approval Acts – States opposing Treaty proposals to give sovereignty to WHO

• https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/global-pandemic-treaty-be-concluded-by-2025-who-says-2024-06-01/ 
• https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/05/24/g-s1-882/negotiators-for-the-global-pandemic-treaty-couldnt-meet-their-deadline 
• https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/444
• https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425 
• https://governor.nebraska.gov/press/gov-pillen-joins-23-states-opposing-who-pandemic-treaty-proposals 
• Letter to Biden:  https://governor.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/press/5-22-24-Final-Joint-Letter-WHO-Pandemic-Treaty.pdf 

A “sacrifice zone” created by chemical plants in Alabama

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09062024/alabama-town-living-and-dying-in-shadow-of-chemical-plants/ 

9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules mRNA vaxx is not a vaccine – therefore cannot be forced upon people – lawsuits over workers’ rights may proceed

• https://mustreadalaska.com/linda-boyle-ninth-circuit-appeals-court-rules-the-covid-19-shot-is-not-actually-a-vaccine/ 

Micro-plastics in blood linked to human blood clots

• https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-found-in-blood-clots-in-heart-brain-and-legs
• Paper:  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(24)00153-1/fulltext 

Importing “workers” and printing money is terrible policy – makes conditions worse

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/i-employed-huge-numbers-of-migrants-and-i-now-realise-the-damage-terrible-mass-migration-has-done/ar-BB1nTauA 

Still hyping man-made global warming – temperatures in Pakistan approach 120 degrees Fahrenheit – but that is not unusual

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08062024/pakistan-heat-wave-emergency/
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pakistan-temperatures-cross-52-degree-celsius-amid-severe-heatwave/articleshow/110487704.cms 
• 2018:  https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/scorching-heat-in-pakistan-may-have-set-world-record.htm 
• Records:  https://www.plantmaps.com/en/pk/climate/extremes/c/pakistan-record-high-low-temperatures 

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 10 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

New law in Florida requires disclosure of certain aspects of flood history of property as part of real estate transaction – addressing growth & development in areas of risk

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01062024/florida-homebuyers-flood-history-law/ 

Systematic analysis of 50 representative estuarine cities in search of the elusive concept of “sustainability”

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tidal-coastal-urban-sustainability.html 

Ndayane Port to be constructed in Senegal will be largest in West Africa – estimated cost $1B for new shipping channel, 300-hectare container termina, new 840-meter quay

• https://constructionreviewonline.com/construction-projects/construction-of-the-mega-1-billion-ndayane-port-in-senegal-enters-its-implementation-phase-west-africas-largest-port/ 

Design for offshore wind turbines intended to survive severe storms

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/04/how-do-wind-turbines-survive-severe-storms/ 
• Design risks:  https://www.abs-group.com/Knowledge-Center/Insights/Hurricane-Force-5-Natural-Hazards-Risks-Affecting-Offshore-Wind-Structure-Design/ 

British Broadcaster missing after departing on lone coastal walk on Greek island of Symi

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/british-broadcaster-missing-greece-after-lone-coastal-walk-2024-06-06/ 

Rubio’s Coastal Grill closes 48 California locations after filing for bankruptcy due to state wage policy

• https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-06-03/rubios-coastal-grill-citing-rising-business-costs-abruptly-shuts-down-48-restaurants-in-california 

Ogeechee Riverkeeper filed letter of intent to sue US Army COE over deficiencies in permits for Hyundai Metaplant in Bryan County, Georgia, to fill or disturb wetlands

• https://thecurrentga.org/2024/06/04/ogeechee-riverkeeper-to-sue-over-hyundai-site-permits/ 
• Permit Decision:  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24732664-usace-404-permit-decision-document-hyundai-megasite 

Impacts of terrorist attacks in coastal region of Kenya 

• https://theconversation.com/between-witchcraft-and-terrorism-how-social-fears-in-coastal-kenya-impact-religious-expression-229190 

White sand beaches in the Caribbean are “choking” with Sargassum fueling ‘economic & public health crisis’

• https://theconversation.com/sargassum-is-choking-the-caribbeans-white-sand-beaches-fueling-an-economic-and-public-health-crisis-230954 

Billion Clam Initiative in Indian River Lagoon – using drones to deploy clams

• https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/coastal-conservation-association-florida-duke-energy-and-others-continue-indian-river-lagoon-billion-clam-initiative

Coastal Gateway Park in Gulf Shores, Alabama, facing long delay – no funding to begin construction

• https://mynbc15.com/news/local/coastal-gateway-community-park-facing-years-of-delay 

Coastal habitat conservation in the Mekong Delta – with link to download report

• https://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/mekong-delta-coastal-habitat-conservation-envi 

Constructing illegal lodges on the sea that damage ecosystem in coastal areas of Turkey

• https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/coastal-lodges-spark-legal-environmental-debate-197099 

Collapse of a 6th house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 4 years constitutes a coastal erosion crisis – should assume the risk of building along the coast

• https://www.axios.com/2024/06/03/beach-house-collapse-erosion-sea-level-rise-climate-change 

Federal protection given to habitat of threatened coastal martens on 1.2M acres in northern California & southern Oregon

• https://www.opb.org/article/2024/06/02/oregon-california-coastal-marten-gains-federal-protection-threatened-species/ 

Projected sea-level change and high-tide flooding at Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve in Florida

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/projected-sea-level-rise-and-high-tide-flooding-timucuan-ecological-and-historic 
• USGS Fact Sheet 2024-3008:  pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2024/3008/fs20243008.pdf 

Understanding wetland science was critical to success of Operation Overlord Normandy Landings on D-Day

• https://theconversation.com/d-days-secret-weapon-how-wetland-science-stopped-the-normandy-landings-from-getting-bogged-down-230743 
• Paper:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13157-024-01820-9 

Overview of expected significant environmental impacts from global expansion of LNG infrastructure

• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/06/lng-expansion-sparks-debate-on-environmental-costs/ 
• Report:  https://assets.takeshape.io/17e2848c-4275-4761-9bf5-62611d9650ae/dev/f28f429c-3c56-40da-a246-20044dcf32bd/Anything%20But%20Natural%20Liquefied%20Natural%20Gas%20(LNG)%20Infrastructure%20Expansion%20Threats%20to%20Coastal%20and%20Marine%20Ecosystems.pdf 

North Korean ship transporting troops capsized & sank in river due to overloading – 90 of 130 onboard died

• https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/overloaded-north-korean-vessel-carrying-troops-capsizes-killing-90-of-130-personnel-onboard/ 

Back-to-back shark bites force closure of waters off Walton County, Florida

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/back-back-shark-bite-incidents-021514353.html 

“Eco-friendly” off-shore wind power being considered for Mack Point Terminal

https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/06/eco-friendly-off-shore-wind-for-mack-point-terminal-under-consideration/

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice” - Will Durant

It's Water-MDPI Most Notable Articles March - May 2024

Most Notable Articles (March–May 2024)

Water Quality and Contamination Transport of Floating Plastics through the Fluvial Vector: The Impact of Riparian Zones Manousos Valyrakis et al.		Water and Climate Change Enhancing Peak Runoff Forecasting through Feature Engineering Applied to X-Band Radar Data Julio Álvarez-Estrella et al.
Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance Adapting Water Resources Management to Climate Change in Water-Stressed River Basins—Júcar River Basin Case Clara Estrela-Segrelles et al.		General In a Good Way: Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems to Understand and Restore Freshwater Systems Samantha Mehltretter et al.
Water Quality and Contamination Water Quality of Roof-Harvested Drinking Water Tanks in a Rural Area near a Gold and Copper Mine: Potential Health Risk from a Layer of Metal-Enriched Water and Sediment Ian A. Wright et al.		Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance Decolonizing Indigenous Drinking Water Challenges and Implications: Focusing on Indigenous Water Governance and Sovereignty Margot Hurlbert et al.
Water Use and Scarcity Are Non-conventional Water Resources the Solution for the Structural Water Deficit in Mediterranean Agriculture? The Case of the Segura River Basin in Spain Almudena Gómez-Ramos et al.		Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance Enhancing Transboundary Freshwater Security: From Online Learning to Global Knowledge Exchange Platform Yumiko Yasuda et al.
General Water Colour Changes in High-Elevation Alpine Lakes during 2017–2022: A Case Study of the Upper Orco Valley Catchment Erica Matta et al.		Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Using Bacteriophages to Treat Resilient Bacteria Found in Produced Water Ramon Sanchez-Rosario et al.

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			Modeling and Measurement of Cold Regions Hydrosystems and Their Evolution under Climate Change edited by Oleg S. Pokrovsky and Liudmila S. Shirokova submission deadline 15 August 2024

 

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Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 3 June 2024

Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 10 (May-2 2024) 144 Articles 31 May 2024

Geoscience Bulletin Board – 3 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Radium and the hydrothermal system of Yellowstone

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/using-radioactive-radium-better-understand-yellowstones-hydrothermal-system 

Visiting the habitat of the Kraken

• https://hakaimagazine.com/news/visiting-the-kraken-at-home/ 

Blue Dragon geologic map of the Grand Canyon is back on exhibit at the Museum of Northern Arizona

• https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1881177/iconic-blue-dragon-map-grand-canyon-back-museum-northern-arizona 
• Exhibit:  https://musnaz.org/on-view/dragonmap/ 

Geological view of Adam’s Inlet which drains into East Arm of Glacier Bay in Alaska

• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152864/a-geological-wonderland-in-alaska 

Change as a more accurate measure of time – 12 photographs from El Camino del Diablo

• https://www.wwnytv.com/2024/05/23/change-is-more-accurate-measure-time/ 

New type of volcanic eruption happened during 2018 explosions of Kilauea – like a stomp-rocket toy

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2024/05/29/analyzing-kilaueas-2018-explosions-geologists-discover-new-type-of-volcanic-eruption/?sh=4c3379f36f6a 
• https://www.sciencealert.com/devastating-outburst-could-be-a-whole-new-kind-of-volcanic-eruption 

Geologic history of Swatara Creek – tributary of the Susquehanna River

• https://lebtown.com/2024/05/30/unraveling-age-old-mysteries-of-swatara-creek-a-journey-into-geologic-time/ 

“Heavenly pits” – giant sinkholes in China that house ancient forests

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/chinas-heavenly-pits-the-giant-sinkholes-that-have-ancient-forests-growing-within 

“Fairy Chimneys” – stone spires in Cappadocia, Turkey

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/fairy-chimneys-the-stone-spires-in-turkey-that-form-the-worlds-most-unusual-high-rise-neighborhood 

Architecture meant to “echo the geological character of the Tetons”

• https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/28/wyoming-house-lever-architecture/ 

Variation in rate and style of lava flow from volcanic system near Grindavik, Iceland

• https://phys.org/news/2024-05-lava-iceland-volcano-powerful-eruption.html 
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-volcanic-eruption-hits-iceland-launching-lava-more-than-160-feet-into-the-air-180984442/ 

Gamma tomography of spent nuclear fuel for geological repository safeguards in Finland

• https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-gamma-tomography-spent-nuclear-fuel.html 

British Ordnance Survey adding geological data to Data Hub

• https://geographical.co.uk/news/ordnance-survey-adds-geological-data-to-its-data-hub 
• Hub:  https://osdatahub.os.uk/ 

The art of restoring fossils

• https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202405/27/WS6653e20fa31082fc043c941c.html 

The “Anthropocene” is not a recognized geologic age but it reflects the damage humans have wrought upon Earth 

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/photos-show-what-humans-have-done-to-the-planet-in-the-anthropocene-age/ar-BB1kPITD 

Haiyang Dizhi-26 commissioned as first integrated island and reef geological survey vessel in China

• https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/3855787-chinas-first-integrated-island-reef-geological-survey-vessel-commissioned-in-hainan 

Tsunami sand in sediment cores being used to assess models for Cascadia earthquake of 1700

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/tsunami-sands-help-scientists-assess-cascadia-earthquake-models 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JF007444 

Predicting significant groundwater depletion in South Korea over next 6 decades by 2080

• https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-high-groundwater-depletion-south.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724023647 

Microscopic deformations in glacial ice may influence glacier flow

• https://phys.org/news/2024-05-microscopic-defects-ice-massive-glaciers.html 

Visualizing the locations of the largest landfills in the US – two of the top 10 are in Nevada

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-where-are-americas-largest-landfills/

Visualizing the wettest & driest counties of the world – no surprise they are all in the tropics

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-worlds-wettest-and-driest-countries/ 

Visualizing the top lithium producing countries in the world in 2023 – most from just 5 counties

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-largest-lithium-producers-in-2023/

USGS focuses on strategic monitoring of wildfire impacts on water resources

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-research-brings-new-focus-strategic-monitoring-wildfire-impacts-water 

USFS warning system predicts post-wildfire debris flows in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/ashes-alerts-science-helps-protect-colorado-travelers 

Two climbers remain stranded on Denali – hunkered down in snow cave – third climber rescued

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/05/two-climbers-stranded-denali-frostbite-hypothermia-third-airlifted 
• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/05/stranded-denali-climbers-hunkered-down-snow-cave-awaiting-rescue 

Musankwa sanyatiensis - Late Triassic Sauropodomorph dinosaur on shoreline of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/musanwka-sanyantiensis-12979.html 

3 new species of Cretaceous monotremes found in Lightning Ridge opal fields of New South Wales, Australia

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/lightning-ridge-monotremes-12964.html 
• Paper:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2024.2348753 

ESA will fund project to study effects of earthquakes on occurrences of other natural hazards

• https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/studying-multi-hazards-from-space/ 

The Harrat Khaybar major volcanic field in Saudi Arabia

• https://scitechdaily.com/white-and-black-unveiling-the-secrets-of-saudi-arabias-volcanic-giants/ 

The end of the world is a Hollywood movie – not necessarily reality

• https://theconversation.com/is-collapse-of-the-atlantic-ocean-circulation-really-imminent-icebergs-history-reveals-some-clues-230534 

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 3 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

For all those who let the media damage their psyche – 20 end of humanity scenarios

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/20-scenarios-that-could-spell-the-end-for-humanity/ss-AA1nlqBF  

17 major fails by humans in manipulating nature (slide show) – includes Grey squirrels in UK, Mississippi Levees, rabbits in AUS, Operation Cat Drop, Aral Sea, kudzu, Colorado River Catastrophe, Love Canal

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/17-major-fails-when-humans-overreached-against-nature/ss-BB1jOO1C 

Rating reports on “green” hydrogen pipelines

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/26/another-day-another-bad-bought-paid-for-hydrogen-pipeline-report-this-one-from-arup/

Confronting Transportation Secretary on the reality of EVs – massive subsidies & very low market share

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/cbs-anchor-tells-buttigieg-trump-230055165.html 

Questions regarding incineration of medical waste & public health implications in Maryland

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052024/maryland-medical-waste-incineration-environmental-violations/ 

Book Review:  “Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question” – should not be a “climate” question but should be a question addressing the over-populated world and desecration of limited resources

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052024/jade-sasser-eco-anxiety-and-reproduction-decisions/ 

Falling debris is hazardous beneath $1.4B Loop 1604 construction zone in San Antonio

• https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/loop-1604-safety-19472851.php 

Final Environmental Review released for 38-mil Palmdale-Burbank segment of California High-Speed Rail Project - $144M spent on developing plans which are not yet completed – more approvals & $$$ needed

• https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-24/final-environmental-review-of-high-speed-rails-burbank-palmdale-portion-released 

Claim that nuclear power is more mining-intensive is false – renewables require 70% to 80% more mining of rock and metal verified by new report

• https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/its-settled-more-nuclear-energy-means-less-mining
• Report:  https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/updated-mining-footprints-and-raw-material-needs-for-clean-energy 

80-year border dispute with Mexico over 1944 water treaty for the Rio Grande – Mexico not meeting treaty requirements

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052024/south-texas-mexico-water-treaty-dispute/ 

Update:   FOIA scandal – “conspiracy at highest levels of NIA and NIAID to avoid public transparency”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/at-the-nih-a-scandal-grows-around-an-official-s-evasion-of-public-records-law/ar-BB1nbOwn 

WHO Pandemic Treaty “crashed and burned” – that is a very good thing despite WHO DG saying “this is not a failure” – “threat to Constitutional rights and freedoms” – would negate national sovereignty 

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/28/who-pandemic-treaty-fizzles-amid-disagreements-between-member-states/ 
• https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/whos-pandemic-treaty-dead-in-the-water-for-now/ 

Romancing the River:  Win-winning the West & our Unimaginable Future – First People water rights

• https://sibleysrivers.com/romancing-the-river-win-winning-the-west-and-our-unimaginable-future/ 

Lightning strike kills Colorado cattle rancher & 34 of his cattle in Jackson County

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/lightning-strike-kills-colorado-cattle-203716545.html 

EVs need 5X as much copper as gas-powered vehicles – an impending environmental crisis

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/new-study-suggests-evs-are-supercharging-an-impending-environmental-crisis/ar-BB1ndL5Q
• Report Summary & Link to download:  https://www.ief.org/focus/ief-reports/copper-mining-and-vehicle-electrification#:%7e:text=To%20electrify%20the%20global%20vehicle,require%20negligible%20extra%20copper%20mining. 

Another $900M in federal subsidies for EVs – this time for 3.200 school bus rebates

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/29/usa-nearly-900-million-for-3400-clean-electric-school-buses/ 

Perspective on plastic packaging – plastic recycling is a sham

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/29/interview-with-jenny-wassenaar-chief-sustainability-officer-about-plastic-packaging-waste/ 

The “Anthropocene” is not a recognized geologic age but it reflects the damage humans have wrought upon Earth in just a few hundred years

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/photos-show-what-humans-have-done-to-the-planet-in-the-anthropocene-age/ar-BB1kPITD 

Urbanization in Africa is accelerating quickly & threats food systems & biodiversity

• https://phys.org/news/2024-05-rapid-urbanization-africa-local-food.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01362-2 

Illinois State Fire Marshal has begun investigating massive fire at poultry farm in Farina

• https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/05/30/large-fire-breaks-out-poultry-farm-illinois/ 
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/30/fire-illinois-poultry-farm/73908555007/ 

USDA implementing Phase VII of Lacey At provisions for plant & wood products

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-announcements/aphis-extends-protections-worlds-plants-through-implementation-revised 

Do not emulate these dumb tourons!!!

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heres-demonstration-not-photograph-bison-135742258.html
  

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/05/scotts-bluff-national-monument-summit-closure-herbicide-application 

White-nose syndrome found at Carlsbad Cavern National Park in Myotis bats

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/05/white-nose-syndrome-turns-carlsbad-cavern-national-park 

UN warns of risk of disease outbreak in Papua New Guinea following landslide

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/UN_warns_of_disease_risk_after_Papua_New_Guinea_landslide_999.html 

Technological hazard – large language models like ChatCPT guzzle enormous amounts of energy with proclivity for tax avoidance, invasion of private & exploitation of attention spans as they gobble up mineral resources

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-ugly-truth-behind-chatgpt-ai-is-guzzling-resources-at-planet-eating-rates/ar-BB1niVbN 

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 3 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

2007 Wind-Mit Program in Mississippi finally gets some limited funding – only $5M for grants in 6 Counties closest to the gulf coast

• https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/05/28/775843.htm 

Pioneer Square Habitat Beach project creates habitat in Seattle

• https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2024/05/seattle-waterfront-project-restores-beach-habitat 

Beachgoers let their dogs run loose posing a very real threat to nesting shorebirds in Georgia

• https://thecurrentga.org/2024/05/28/beachgoers-and-their-dogs-threaten-nesting-shorebirds/ 

Increased flood risk along North Carolina coast – it is result of coastal subsidence (not man-made global warming) and decisions to build in risk prone coastal zones – more media hype

• https://abc11.com/post/coastal-flooding-rise-north-carolina-new-climate-data/14887926/ 

• https://myfox8.com/news/map-shows-which-coastal-u-s-cities-are-sinking-face-greater-flood-risk/ 

• https://coastalreview.org/2024/03/sinking-land-could-exacerbate-coastal-flooding-study/ 

• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07038-3

3,000 acres added to Gull Rock Game Lands in Hyde County in North Carolina

• https://coastalreview.org/2024/05/coastal-land-trust-deal-adds-3000-acres-to-state-game-land/ 

Rhode Island CRMC approves plan to reconstruct 2 East Bag Bike Path bridges

• https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2024/05/28/r-i-coastal-regulators-ok-east-bay-bike-path-replacement-bridges/

Proposed temporary mandatory harvest reporting rules draw 3,700+ public comments in North Carolina

• https://coastalreview.org/2024/05/harvest-reporting-rules-draw-expletive-laden-comments/ 

• Reporting:  https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/marine-fisheries/licenses-permits-and-leases/mandatory-harvest-reporting 

Point Reyes National Seashore plan to continue coastal dune restoration

• https://www.nps.gov/pore/getinvolved/planning_dunerestoration.ht 

Poorly built thatched roof shanty villages in coastal areas hit by cyclone winds & floods in Bangladesh & India

• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/in-bangladesh-and-india-cyclone-floods-coastal-villages-blows-away-thatched-roofs-and-cuts-power 

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Deadly_Bangladesh_cyclone_one_of_longest_seen_999.html 

New legislation would increase housing density in California coastal neighborhoods but not coastal zones?

• https://fox5sandiego.com/news/california-news/bill-to-increase-housing-density-in-californias-coastal-areas-moves-forward/ 

Plan to radically transform Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority in Louisiana?

• https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/05/129249-louisiana-coastal-protection-agency-under-threat 

Another round of dredging and beach nourishment “completed” at Cape Lookout National Seashore – cost for this round = $6.9M using about 30,000 cubic yards of dredge sand

• https://coastalreview.org/2024/05/cape-lookout-dredging-beach-nourishment-work-complete/ 

Development threatens to transform Baja Ppeninsula coast – would dry up aquifers & damage fragile ecosystem

• https://hakaimagazine.com/features/buying-baja/ 

Modeling projected groundwater flow and water level declines in confined aquifers in the New Jersey Coastal Plain 2014 to 2040

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/simulated-effects-projected-2014-40-withdrawals-groundwater-flow-and-water-levels-new 

• USGS SIR 2024-5028:  pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2024/5028/sir20245028.pdf 

“Green tourism” adversely impacting fishing communities in Benin

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Green_tourism_project_uproots_Benin_fishing_communities_999.html 

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 10 (May-2 2024) 144 Articles 31 May 2024

Water, Volume 16, Issue 10 (May-2 2024) 144 Articles

Cover Story

Article: Water Quality and the First-Flush Effect in Roof-Based Rainwater Harvesting, Part I: Water Quality and Soil Accumulation

Jessica J. Lay, Jason R. Vogel, Jason B. Belden, Glenn O. Brown and Daniel E. Storm

Water 2024, 16(10), 1402; DOI: 10.3390/w16101402

Water and One Health

Article: Using Methods to Assess the Structure of Water and Water-Containing Systems to Improve the Properties of Living and Non-Living Systems

Galina Sidorenko, Mitja Brilly, Boris Laptev, Nikolay Gorlenko, Leonid Antoshkin, Andrej Vidmar and Andrej Kryžanowski

Water 2024, 16(10), 1381; DOI: 10.3390/w16101381

Water-Energy Nexus

Review: Representative High-Temperature Hydrothermal Activities in the Himalaya Geothermal Belt (HGB): A Review and Future Perspectives

Qing Li, Yanchun Hao, Chuanxin Liu, Jinhang Huang and Xingcheng Yuan

Water 2024, 16(10), 1378; DOI: 10.3390/w16101378

 

Article: Optimization of Elbow Draft Tubes for Variable Speed Propeller Turbine

Jiří Souček and Petr Nowak

Water 2024, 16(10), 1457; DOI: 10.3390/w16101457

New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences

Article: Ice-Jam Investigations along the Oder River Based on Satellite and UAV Data

Fabian Möldner, Bernd Hentschel and Dirk Carstensen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1323; DOI: 10.3390/w16101323

 

Article: An Image Analysis of River-Floating Waste Materials by Using Deep Learning Techniques

Maiyatat Nunkhaw and Hitoshi Miyamoto

Water 2024, 16(10), 1373; DOI: 10.3390/w16101373

 

Article: A Variational Mode Decomposition Analysis and Prediction Simulation of DO in the Water Environment of the Chengdu Area, China

Mei Li, Deke Wang, Rui Xu and Kexing Chen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1405; DOI: 10.3390/w16101405

Hydrogeology

Article: Groundwater Recharge Assessment in Central Benin: The Case of the Collines Region (West Africa)

Kodjo Apelete Raoul Kpegli, Firmin Adandedji, Cintia Ahouandogbo, Metogbe Belfrid Djihouessi, Jean Hounkpe, Yèkambèssoun N’Tcha M’Po, Aymar Yaovi Bossa, Abdoukarim Alassane, Luc Olivier Sintondji, Daouda Mama and Moussa Boukari

Water 2024, 16(10), 1330; DOI: 10.3390/w16101330

 

Article: Hydrogeochemical Characteristics of the Geothermal System in the Woka-Cuona Rift Zone, Tibet

Wen Zhang, Jiansong Peng and Yong Liu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1395; DOI: 10.3390/w16101395

 

Essay: New Insights into Turbulent and Laminar Flow Relationships Using Darcy–Weisbach and Poiseuille Laws

Francesco Fiorillo, Libera Esposito, Michele Ginolfi and Guido Leone

Water 2024, 16(10), 1452; DOI: 10.3390/w16101452

Soil and Water

Article: Study of Steroid Estrogen Loss in Soil after the Application of Composted Manure as a Fertilizer

Jimeng Feng, Jian Shen, Yani Li, Lina Chi, Xinze Wang and Jiangping Qiu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1374; DOI: 10.3390/w16101374

 

Article: Effect of Irrigation Water Quality and Soil Compost Treatment on Salinity Management to Improve Soil Health and Plant Yield

Subanky Suvendran, David Johnson, Miguel Acevedo, Breana Smithers and Pei Xu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1391; DOI: 10.3390/w16101391

 

Article: An Efficient Seepage Element Containing Drainage Pipe

Xiaozhou Xia, Xinxiang Xu, Xin Gu and Qing Zhang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1440; DOI: 10.3390/w16101440

 

Article: Optimizing Bioethanol (C₂H₅OH) Yield of Sweet Sorghum Varieties in a Semi-Arid Environment: The Impact of Deheading and Deficit Irrigation

Mohammed A. Alsanad and Eman I. R. Emara

Water 2024, 16(10), 1456; DOI: 10.3390/w16101456

Water and Climate Change

Article: Assessing Climate-Change-Driven Impacts on Water Scarcity: A Case Study of Low-Flow Dynamics in the Lower Kalu River Basin, Sri Lanka

Rangika Fernando, Harsha Ratnasooriya, Janaka Bamunawala, Jeewanthi Sirisena, Merenchi Galappaththige Nipuni Odara, Luminda Gunawardhana and Lalith Rajapakse

Water 2024, 16(10), 1317; DOI: 10.3390/w16101317

 

Article: Response of Streamflow to Future Land Use and Cover Change and Climate Change in the Source Region of the Yellow River

Hao Zhan, Jiang Zhang, Le Wang, Dongxue Yu, Min Xu and Qiuan Zhu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1332; DOI: 10.3390/w16101332

 

Article: Development and Applicability Evaluation of Damage Scale Analysis Techniques for Agricultural Drought

Youngseok Song, Jingul Joo, Hayong Kim and Moojong Park

Water 2024, 16(10), 1342; DOI: 10.3390/w16101342

 

Article: Projected Changes in Extreme Precipitation Patterns across Algerian Sub-Regions

Yasmine Hamitouche, Ayoub Zeroual, Mohamed Meddi, Ali A. Assani, Ramdane Alkama, Zekâi Şen and Xinhua Zhang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1353; DOI: 10.3390/w16101353

 

Article: Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources for Vegetation Covers in Extremadura (Spain)

Javier Lozano-Parra and José Manuel Sánchez-Martín

Water 2024, 16(10), 1418; DOI: 10.3390/w16101418

 

Article: Modeling Environmental Vulnerability for 2050 Considering Different Scenarios in the Doce River Basin, Brazil

Jasmine Alves Campos, Demetrius David da Silva, Gabrielle Ferreira Pires, Elpídio Inácio Fernandes Filho, Ricardo Santos Silva Amorim, Frederico Carlos Martins de Menezes Filho, Celso Bandeira de Melo Ribeiro, Juliana Ferreira Lorentz and Uilson Ricardo Venâncio Aires

Water 2024, 16(10), 1459; DOI: 10.3390/w16101459

Hydrology

Article: Impacts of High-Concentration Turbid Water on the Groundwater Environment of the Tedori River Alluvial Fan in Japan

Yoichi Fujihara, Kento Otani, Keiji Takase, Shunsuke Chono and Eiji Ichion

Water 2024, 16(10), 1326; DOI: 10.3390/w16101326

 

Article: Spatial Differentiation and Influencing Factors Analysis of Drought Characteristics Based on the Standardized Precipitation Index: A Case Study of the Yellow River Basin

Qi Liu, Aidi Huo, Zhixin Zhao, Xuantao Zhao, Nazih Yacer Rebouh and Chenxu Luo

Water 2024, 16(10), 1337; DOI: 10.3390/w16101337

 

Article: Unveiling the Dynamics of Cryptosporidium in Urban Surface Water: A Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Insights into Climatic and Seasonal Influences

Hazrat Bilal, Xiaowen Li, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal, Roberto Xavier Supe Tulcan and Madan Thapa Chhetri

Water 2024, 16(10), 1352; DOI: 10.3390/w16101352

 

Article: Modelling of a Lake Outburst as a Result of the Development of Piping

Galina Pryakhina, Valeriia Rasputina and Stepan Svirepov

Water 2024, 16(10), 1379; DOI: 10.3390/w16101379

 

Article: Salt Drainage Efficiency and Anti-Clogging Effects of Subsurface Pipes Wrapped with Geotextiles

Xu Wang, Yonghong Zhang, Liqin Fan and Jingli Shen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1392; DOI: 10.3390/w16101392

 

Article: Modeling Forest Snow Using Relative Canopy Structure Metrics

C. David Moeser, Graham Sexstone and Jake Kurzweil

Water 2024, 16(10), 1398; DOI: 10.3390/w16101398

 

Article: A Combined Seasonal Mann–Kendall and Innovative Approach for the Trend Analysis of Streamflow Rate in Two Croatian Rivers

Mehmet Berkant Yıldız, Fabio Di Nunno, Bojan Đurin, Quoc Bao Pham, Giovanni de Marinis and Francesco Granata

Water 2024, 16(10), 1422; DOI: 10.3390/w16101422

 

Article: A Study of Precipitation Forecasting for the Pre-Summer Rainy Season in South China Based on a Back-Propagation Neural Network

Bing-Zeng Wang, Si-Jie Liu, Xin-Min Zeng, Bo Lu, Zeng-Xin Zhang, Jian Zhu and Irfan Ullah

Water 2024, 16(10), 1423; DOI: 10.3390/w16101423

 

Article: The Main Impact Factors for the Propagation from Meteorological Drought to Socio-Economic Drought from the Perspective of a Small Area, Based on a Practical Survey

Chenkai Cai, Changhuai Wu, Jing Wang, Helong Wang, Ruotong Wang, Lei Fu and Jinhua Wen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1426; DOI: 10.3390/w16101426

 

Article: Effective Stakeholder Management for Inclusive Post-Flood Management: Sri Lanka as a Case Study

Kalindu Mendis, Menaha Thayaparan, Yamuna Kaluarachchi and Bingunath Ingirige

Water 2024, 16(10), 1429; DOI: 10.3390/w16101429

 

Article: Research on Salt Drainage Efficiency and Anti-Siltation Effect of Subsurface Drainage Pipes with Different Filter Materials

Xu Wang, Jingli Shen, Liqin Fan and Yonghong Zhang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1432; DOI: 10.3390/w16101432

 

Article: Flood Propagation Characteristics in a Plain Lake: The Role of Multiple River Interactions

Qiuqin Wu, Zhichao Wang, Xinfa Xu, Zhiwen Huang, Tianfu Wen, Wensun You and Yang Xia

Water 2024, 16(10), 1447; DOI: 10.3390/w16101447

 

Editorial: River Ecological Restoration and Groundwater Artificial Recharge II

Yuanzheng Zhai and Jin Wu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1328; DOI: 10.3390/w16101328

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: Excess of Nutrients in Prefabricated or Compact Wastewater Treatment Plants: Review, Solution Alternative, and Modeling for Verification

Marco Antonio Díaz, David Blanco, Rosa Chandia-Jaure, Danny Lobos Calquin, Alejandra Decinti, Pedro Naranjo and María Belén Almendro-Candel

Water 2024, 16(10), 1354; DOI: 10.3390/w16101354

 

Review: The Occurrence, Distribution, Environmental Effects, and Interactions of Microplastics and Antibiotics in the Aquatic Environment of China

Yiping Guo, Wanfei Shao, Weigao Zhao and Hong Zhu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1435; DOI: 10.3390/w16101435

 

Article: A Comprehensive Approach to Azo Dichlorotriazine Dye Treatment: Assessing the Impact of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Treatment Methods through Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data

Gamal K. Hassan, Montaser Y. Ghaly, Ghada E. Ahmed, Rehab M. Mohamed, Heba A. El-Gawad, Przemysław Kowal, Hussein E. Al-Hazmi and Ahmed A. Afify

Water 2024, 16(10), 1327; DOI: 10.3390/w16101327

 

Article: Rapid Formation and Performance of Aerobic Granular Sludge Driven by a Sodium Alginate Nucleus under Different Organic Loading Rates and C/N Ratios

Chunjuan Gan, Qiming Cheng, Renyu Chen, Xi Chen, Ying Chen, Yizhou Wu, Cong Li, Shanchuan Xu and Yao Chen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1336; DOI: 10.3390/w16101336

 

Article: Heterojunction-Based Photocatalytic Degradation of Rose Bengal Dye via Gold-Decorated α-Fe₂O₃-CeO₂ Nanocomposites under Visible-Light Irradiation

Najah Ayad Alshammari, Samia Abdulhammed Kosa, Rajan Patel and Maqsood Ahmad Malik

Water 2024, 16(10), 1334; DOI: 10.3390/w16101334

 

Article: Mg–Fe Layered Double Hydroxides/Polyacrylonitrile Nanofibers for Solar-Light Induced Peroxymonosulfate Elimination of Tetracycline Hydrochloride

Hao Peng, Beilei Ye, Meiying Luo and Xiaogang Zheng

Water 2024, 16(10), 1345; DOI: 10.3390/w16101345

 

Article: Treatment of Dairy Farm Runoff in Vegetated Bioretention Systems Amended with Biochar

Md Yeasir A. Rahman, Nicholas Richardson, Mahmood H. Nachabe and Sarina J. Ergas

Water 2024, 16(10), 1347; DOI: 10.3390/w16101347

 

Article: Evaluating the Influence of Reverse Osmosis on Lakes Using Water Quality Indices: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed T. Aljassim, Abdulaziz A. AlMulla, Mahmoud M. Berekaa and Abdulmalik S. Alsaif

Water 2024, 16(10), 1351; DOI: 10.3390/w16101351

 

Article: Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation of Tetracycline by Magnetically Separable g-C₃N₄-Doped Magnetite@Titanium Dioxide Heterostructured Photocatalyst

Rong Liu, Mingming Li, Jie Chen, Yu Yin, Wei Zhao, Zhanghao Gong, Hua Jin and Zhigang Liu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1372; DOI: 10.3390/w16101372

 

Article: Enhanced Nitrate Nitrogen Removal from Constructed Wetland via Fe₃O₄/Granular Activated Carbon Anode Microbial Electrolysis Cell under Low C/N Ratio

Heng Yang, Shenyu Tan, Yu Huang and Xinhua Tang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1377; DOI: 10.3390/w16101377

 

Article: The Potential of AOP Pretreatment in the Biodegradation of PS and PVC Microplastics by Candida parapsilosis

Kristina Bule Možar, Martina Miloloža, Viktorija Martinjak, Magdalena Ujević Bošnjak, Marinko Markić, Tomislav Bolanča, Matija Cvetnić, Dajana Kučić Grgić and Šime Ukić

Water 2024, 16(10), 1389; DOI: 10.3390/w16101389

 

Article: Removal of Dyes from Water Using Aluminum-Based Water Treatment Sludge as a Low-Cost Coagulant: Use of Response Surface Methodology

Abderrezzaq Benalia, Kerroum Derbal, Ouiem Baatache, Cheima Lehchili, Amel Khalfaoui and Antonio Pizzi

Water 2024, 16(10), 1400; DOI: 10.3390/w16101400

 

Article: Study of the Bunsen–Roscoe Reciprocity Law in Solar Water Disinfection (Optical Effect) for E. coli, E. faecalis and C. perfringens

Julia Torres, Ana María Palacios, Manuel Fuentes and Marta Vivar

Water 2024, 16(10), 1406; DOI: 10.3390/w16101406

 

Article: The Impact of 9 Years of Swine Wastewater Application on the Mineral and Organic Quality of Soil in Various Agricultural Crops

Ana Paula Almeida Castaldelli Maciel, Gabriela Medeiros, Amanda de Souza Machado, Maria Clara Pilatti, Ralpho Rinaldo dos Reis and Silvio Cesar Sampaio

Water 2024, 16(10), 1412; DOI: 10.3390/w16101412

 

Article: Synergistic Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Constructed Wetlands Enhanced by Sponge Iron

Yiwei Shen, Meijia Hu, Yishen Xu, Mengni Tao, Lin Guan, Yu Kong, Shiwei Cao and Zhaoqian Jing

Water 2024, 16(10), 1414; DOI: 10.3390/w16101414

 

Article: Enhanced Low-Energy Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) Removal in Aeration-Free Conditions through Pulse-Rotating Bio-Contactors Enriched with Glycogen-Accumulating Organisms

Liang Cheng, Guihuan Deng, Chaoqun Zhang, Yao Yang, Abdallah Abdelfattah, Reham Eltawab and Hui Jia

Water 2024, 16(10), 1417; DOI: 10.3390/w16101417

 

Article: Evaluation of the Potential of a Biocoagulant Produced from Prickly Pear Peel Waste Valorization for Wastewater Treatment

Miguel Mauricio Aguilera Flores, Oswaldo Emmanuel Robles Miranda, Nahum Andrés Medellín Castillo, Verónica Ávila Vázquez, Omar Sánchez Mata, Rosendo Vázquez Bañuelos and Carolina Estefanía Chávez Murillo

Water 2024, 16(10), 1444; DOI: 10.3390/w16101444

 

Article: Sustainable Banana-Waste-Derived Biosorbent for Congo Red Removal from Aqueous Solutions: Kinetics, Equilibrium, and Breakthrough Studies

Samah Daffalla, Amel Taha, Enshirah Da’na and Mohamed R. El-Aassar

Water 2024, 16(10), 1449; DOI: 10.3390/w16101449

 

Article: Bibliometric Analysis of Nitrogen Removal in Constructed Wetlands: Current Trends and Future Research Directions

Jiahao Dong and Shaoping Kuang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1453; DOI: 10.3390/w16101453

 

Editorial: Advances in the Management of Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment

Carlos Costa

Water 2024, 16(10), 1404; DOI: 10.3390/w16101404

 

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Article: Water Resource Utilization Assessment in China Based on the Dynamic Relationship between Economic Growth and Water Use

Saige Wang, Ziyuan Sun,