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It's Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 12 (June-2 2024) 123 Articles

It's Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 12 (June-2 2024) – 123 articles

Cover Story

Article: Factors Governing Site and Charge Density of Dissolved Natural Organic Matter

Rolf D. Vogt, Øyvind A. Garmo, Kari Austnes, Øyvind Kaste, Ståle Haaland, James E. Sample, Jan-Erik Thrane, Liv Bente Skancke, Cathrine B. Gundersen and Heleen A. de Wit

Water 2024, 16(12), 1716; DOI: 10.3390/w16121716

 

Featured Paper

Article: Study on the Coefficient of Apparent Shear Stress along Lines Dividing a Compound Cross-Section

Yindi Zhao, Dong Chen, Jinghong Qin, Lei Wang and You Luo

Water 2024, 16(12), 1648; DOI: 10.3390/w16121648

Water and One Health

Review: Research Progress and Perspectives on Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: A Bibliometric Analysis

Fang Yang, Fangyuan Jin, Nannan Song, Weilong Jiang, Miaoxin Bai, Chenxing Fu, Jinxia Lu, Yuxin Li and Zhonghong Li

Water 2024, 16(12), 1743; DOI: 10.3390/w16121743

Article: Carcinogenic and Non-Carcinogenic Health Risk Evaluation of Heavy Metals in Water Sources of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer in the El-Farafra Oasis (Egypt)

Abdullah A. Saber, Mahmood Fayz M. Al-Mashhadany, Aadil Hamid, Jacopo Gabrieli, Klement Tockner, Sarah S. A. Alsaif, Ali A. M. Al-Marakeby, Stefano Segadelli, Marco Cantonati and Sami Ullah Bhat

Water 2024, 16(12), 1649; DOI: 10.3390/w16121649

New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences

Review: The Role of Automation in the Analysis of Manganese in Environmental Water Samples

Rogelio Rodríguez-Maese, Verónica Rodríguez-Saldaña, Laura Ferrer and Luz O. Leal

Water 2024, 16(12), 1659; DOI: 10.3390/w16121659

Article: Advanced Machine Learning and Water Quality Index (WQI) Assessment: Evaluating Groundwater Quality at the Yopurga Landfill

Hongmei Zheng, Shiwei Hou, Jing Liu, Yanna Xiong and Yuxin Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1666; DOI: 10.3390/w16121666

Article: Investigating the Mechanism of Land Subsidence Due to Water Network Integration at the Guangzhou Longgui Salt Mine and Its Impact on Adjacent Subway

Nan Zhang, Xuchao Liu, Yun Zhang, Helong Gu, Baoxu Yan, Qianjun Jia and Xinrong Gao

Water 2024, 16(12), 1723; DOI: 10.3390/w16121723

Hydrogeology

Article: Dynamic Hazard Assessment of Rainfall-Induced Landslides Using Gradient Boosting Decision Tree with Google Earth Engine in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Ke Yang, Ruiqing Niu, Yingxu Song, Jiahui Dong, Huaidan Zhang and Jie Chen

Water 2024, 16(12), 1638; DOI: 10.3390/w16121638

Article: Gallium Isotope Effect of Ga-Si Complex Solutions in Water: Theoretical Study Based on Density Functional Theory

Jixi Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1680; DOI: 10.3390/w16121680

Article: Advancing the Understanding of Complex Piezometric Information: A Methodological Approach Integrating Long-Term Piezometry, Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and Fracture Analysis Using Insights from the “Calcaires du Barrois” Series, France

Mathieu Bertrand, Catherine Bertrand, Naomi Mazzilli, Sylvain Gigleux, Sophie Denimal, Rémi Valois, Lise-Marie Girod, Guillaume Cinkus, Valentine Busquet and Konstantinos Chalikakis

Water 2024, 16(12), 1700; DOI: 10.3390/w16121700

Soil and Water

Article: Soil Modeling and Prediction Methods in Dredging Construction Areas

Qi Guo, Wangming Wang, Zihao Yuan, Zhenjie Wang, Wei Wei and Pan Jiang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1724; DOI: 10.3390/w16121724

Water and Climate Change

Article: Variations in Greenhouse Gas Fluxes at the Water–Gas Interface in the Three Gorges Reservoir Caused by Hydrologic Management: Implications for Carbon Cycling

Xing Wei, Mingliang Liu, Hongzhong Pan, Huaming Yao and Yufeng Ren

Water 2024, 16(12), 1642; DOI: 10.3390/w16121642

Article: Risk of Natural Hazards Caused by Extreme Precipitation in Poland in 1951–2020

Robert Kalbarczyk and Eliza Kalbarczyk

Water 2024, 16(12), 1705; DOI: 10.3390/w16121705

Article: Temporal and Spatial Variations in Drought and Its Impact on Agriculture in China

Wen Liu and Yuqing Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1713; DOI: 10.3390/w16121713

Article: Screening Rainwater Harvesting Potentialities in the EU Industrial Sector: A Framework for Site-Specific Assessment

Daniel F. C. Dias, Morgan Abily, João M. Ribeiro, Hussam Jouhara and Evina Katsou

Water 2024, 16(12), 1758; DOI: 10.3390/w16121758

 

Hydrology

Article: Multi-Model Comparison in the Attribution of Runoff Variation across a Humid Region of Southern China

Qiang Wang, Fang Yang, Xiaozhang Hu, Peng Hou, Yin Zhang, Pengjun Li and Kairong Lin

Water 2024, 16(12), 1729; DOI: 10.3390/w16121729

Article: Automatic Rainwater Quality Monitoring System Using Low-Cost Technology

Luis Daniel Mejía-Ferreyra, Liliana García-Romero, Sonia Tatiana Sánchez-Quispe, José Apolinar-Cortés and Julio César Orantes-Avalos

Water 2024, 16(12), 1735; DOI: 10.3390/w16121735

Article: Analyzing the Vertical Recharge Mechanism of Groundwater Using Ion Characteristics and Water Quality Indexes in Lake Hulun

Hengshuai Gao, Sheng Zhang, Wenbao Li and Yulong Tao

Water 2024, 16(12), 1756; DOI: 10.3390/w16121756

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: An Extensive Analysis of Combined Processes for Landfill Leachate Treatment

Ahmad Jamrah, Tharaa M. AL-Zghoul and Zakaria Al-Qodah

Water 2024, 16(12), 1640; DOI: 10.3390/w16121640

Review: Hydrothermal Carbonization Technology for Wastewater Treatment under the “Dual Carbon” Goals: Current Status, Trends, and Challenges

Guoqing Liu, Qing Xu, Salah F. Abou-Elwafa, Mohammed Ali Alshehri and Tao Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1749; DOI: 10.3390/w16121749

Article: Experimental Study on the Combined Effect of Electromagnetic and Electrochemical Processes on Descaling and Anticorrosion

Saiwei Zhang, Dongqiang Wang, Gangsheng Li, Xuewu Dong and Haiqin Jiang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1644; DOI: 10.3390/w16121644

Article: Effect of Carbon Source on Endogenous Partial Denitrification Process: Characteristics of Intracellular Carbon Transformation and Nitrite Accumulation

Han Xiang, Juan Li, Zhipeng You, Yanling Qiu, Juan Feng, Ji Zhao, Guangyu Chu and Xiaoxia Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1645; DOI: 10.3390/w16121645

Article: Mechanism of Crude Oil Biodegradation in Bioreactors: A Model Approach

Carlos Costa and Nicolás Millán

Water 2024, 16(12), 1653; DOI: 10.3390/w16121653

Article: Efficient H₂O₂ Production and Activation by Air Diffusion Cathode Combined with Ultraviolet for Lake Water Treatment: A Long-Term Evaluation

Hui Hong, Shiwei Xie, Aoxue Qiu, Yuming Yao, Wenzhe Jiang, Jilei Li, Zihao Wan, Shengjie Xiang, Chenyi Xi, Jingxian Xiao and Na Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1658; DOI: 10.3390/w16121658

Article: Enhanced Biological Nitrate Removal from Groundwater in Humid Tropical Regions Using Corn Cob-Based Permeable Reactive Barriers: A Case Study from Panama

Graciela Cecilia Sánchez Hidalgo, Maria De Los Ángeles Ortega and Euclides Deago

Water 2024, 16(12), 1668; DOI: 10.3390/w16121668

Article: Nutrient Recovery via Struvite Precipitation from Wastewater Treatment Plants: Influence of Operating Parameters, Coexisting Ions, and Seeding

Andreia F. Santos, Luísa S. Mendes, Paula Alvarenga, Licínio M. Gando-Ferreira and Margarida J. Quina

Water 2024, 16(12), 1675; DOI: 10.3390/w16121675

Article: Hydroxyl Radical-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes of Red Reactive Dyes by Ultrafine Bubbles Method

Dedeh Rosmaniar Sofia, Eko Sulistio Hanam, Sunardi Sunardi, Dadan Sumiarsa and I Made Joni

Water 2024, 16(12), 1678; DOI: 10.3390/w16121678

Article: New Strategy to Maximize Phosphorus Utilization of Sewage Sludge Incineration Ash for Struvite Crystallization

Nari Park, Miseon Kim, Jinhong Jung, Sanghoon Ji and Weonjae Kim

Water 2024, 16(12), 1682; DOI: 10.3390/w16121682

Article: Enhanced Electricity Generation in Solar-Driven Photo-Bioelectrochemical Cells Equipped with Co₃(PO₄)₂/Mg(OH)₂ Photoanode

Razieh Rafieenia, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mahmoud S. Abdel-Wahed, Tarek A. Gad-Allah, Anna Salvian, Daniel Farkas, Fatma El-Gohary and Claudio Avignone Rossa

Water 2024, 16(12), 1683; DOI: 10.3390/w16121683

Article: Efficient and Rapid Combined Electrocoagulation–Filtration of Arsenic in Drinking Water

Najeebullah Channa, Tanveer A. Gadhi, Rasool Bux Mahar, Imran Ali, Sana Sajjad, Francesca S. Freyria, Barbara Bonelli, Sonke Widderich and Franz-Bernd Frechen

Water 2024, 16(12), 1684; DOI: 10.3390/w16121684

Article: Recovery of Sb(Ⅲ) from Aqueous Solution as Cubic Sb₂O₃ by Fluidized-Bed Granulation Process

Jingjing Yang, Jie Zhang, Jintong Liu, Quanxin Yang, Bingdang Wu, Xiaoyi Xu and Tianyin Huang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1690; DOI: 10.3390/w16121690

Article: Degradation of Atrazine by Flow-Through UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes: Roles of Light Source and Chlorine Addition

Suona Zhang, Tao Han, Li You, Jing Zhong, Huimin Zhang, Xiaojun Hu and Wentao Li

Water 2024, 16(12), 1697; DOI: 10.3390/w16121697

Article: Enhancing Decision Fusion for Wastewater Treatment System Selection Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Gray Analytic Hierarchy Process

Tahmineh Zhian, Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared, Mohsen Rashki and Gholamreza Azizyan

Water 2024, 16(12), 1709; DOI: 10.3390/w16121709

Article: Research on Carbon Dioxide-Assisted Electrocoagulation Technology for Treatment of Divalent Cations in Water

Baoqi Chang, Guangpu Li, Fuqiang Guo, Shuang Lu, Yuhao Peng and Junwei Hou

Water 2024, 16(12), 1715; DOI: 10.3390/w16121715

Article: Performance of Treating Surfactant-Containing Wastewater by Using Algal–Bacterial Granular Sludge

Hanxiao Wang, Tongtong Liu and Xiaoshuai Hang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1717; DOI: 10.3390/w16121717

Article: Physical Model Test of Deformation Self-Adaptive Mechanism of Landslide Mass

He Yang, Minggao Tang, Xianxuan Xiao, Guojun Cai, Yong Wei, Songlin Li, Huajin Li and Jingwei Xie

Water 2024, 16(12), 1720; DOI: 10.3390/w16121720

Article: Ozonation as Pretreatment of Digested Swine Manure Prior to Microalgae Culture

César Ruiz Palomar, Alfonso García Álvaro, Daphne Hermosilla, Antonio Gascó, Raúl Muñoz and Ignacio de Godos

Water 2024, 16(12), 1740; DOI: 10.3390/w16121740

Article: Performance of Iron-Doped Titanium Dioxide-Loaded Activated Carbon Composite Synthesized by Simplified Sol–Gel Method for Ciprofloxacin Degradation under Ultraviolet Light

Ye Yuan, Jianguo Cui and Feng Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1739; DOI: 10.3390/w16121739

Article: Surface Modification of PVDF and PTFE Hollow Fiber Membranes for Enhanced Nitrogen Removal in a Membrane-Aerated Biofilm Reactor

Wenfeng Zai, Yangman Chen, Qingdong Qin, Xiangkun Li and Dezhao Liu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1747; DOI: 10.3390/w16121747

Article: Activation of Peroxymonosulfate by P-Doped Cow Manure Biochar for Enhancing Degradation of 17β-Estradiol

Wu You, Gongduan Fan, Junhou Zhou, Ruiyu Lin, Xingfeng Cao, Yiqing Song, Jing Luo, Jianyong Zou, Zhanglin Hong, Kai-Qin Xu and Quanda Luo

Water 2024, 16(12), 1754; DOI: 10.3390/w16121754

 

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Article: Employing Tank Constraints to Present Total Cost and Water Age Trade-Offs in Optimal Operation of Water Distribution Systems

Tomer Shmaya and Avi Ostfeld

Water 2024, 16(12), 1637; DOI: 10.3390/w16121637

Article: A Comparative Study of Carbon Emissions from Industrial and Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plants under the Background of Carbon Neutralization

Xiaoping Liu, Zhanbin Li, Peng Li, Weiqing Xu, Tong Liu, Shengdong Cheng, Jiajia Li, Ziyao Miao, Lin Zhang and Xing Zheng

Water 2024, 16(12), 1652; DOI: 10.3390/w16121652

Article: Decision Support Systems Based on a Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis to Promote a Whole-of-Resource Approach for Water Management, with a Case Study of Rural Bengaluru in India

Tavseef Mairaj Shah, Chidinma Onyekaozuoro Egwu, Mohammad Hammad and Ralf Otterpohl

Water 2024, 16(12), 1674; DOI: 10.3390/w16121674

Article: Economic Evaluation of Water Management Alternatives in the Upper Green River Basin of Wyoming

Spencer Blevins, Kristiana M. Hansen, Ginger B. Paige, Anne MacKinnon and Christopher T. Bastian

Water 2024, 16(12), 1685; DOI: 10.3390/w16121685

Article: Framework Model for Financing Sustainable Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Zimbabwe

Justice Mundonde and Patricia Lindelwa Makoni

Water 2024, 16(12), 1691; DOI: 10.3390/w16121691

Article: The Improved Water Resource Stress Index (WRSI) Model in Humid Regions

Yuxin Yang, Feng Yan and Hongliang Wu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1714; DOI: 10.3390/w16121714

Article: Water Footprint and Water Sustainability of Agroindustrial Avocado Production in a Warm Tropical Climate Municipality: A Case Study in the Michoacan Avocado Belt in Central México

Diana J. Fuerte-Velázquez and Alberto Gómez-Tagle

Water 2024, 16(12), 1719; DOI: 10.3390/w16121719

Article: Measuring First Nations Engagement in Water Governance in Manitoba

Warrick Baijius, Robert J. Patrick and Chris Furgal

Water 2024, 16(12), 1734; DOI: 10.3390/w16121734

Article: The Water Management Impacts of Large-Scale Mining Operations: A Social and Environmental Perspective

Katherine Arenas-Collao, Héctor Valdés-González, Lorenzo Reyes-Bozo and José Luis Salazar

Water 2024, 16(12), 1745; DOI: 10.3390/w16121745

Article: Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Water Supply to Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan

Tsung-Yu Lee, Yun-Pan Lai, Tse-Yang Teng and Chi-Cheng Chiu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1746; DOI: 10.3390/w16121746

Article: Research on Bi-Level Objective Programming Model of Water Resources Uncertainty Based on Water Rights Trading—A Case Study of the Yehe Irrigation District in Hebei Province, China

Shuoxin Li, Meiqin Suo, Leilei Fan and Dongkun Liu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1751; DOI: 10.3390/w16121751

Article: Establishing a Geo-Database for Drinking Water and Its Delivery and Storage Components with an Object-Based Approach

Yakup Emre Coruhlu and Sait Semih Altas

Water 2024, 16(12), 1753; DOI: 10.3390/w16121753

Water Quality and Contamination

Article: A Framework to Evaluate Groundwater Quality and the Relationship between Rock Weathering and Groundwater Hydrogeochemistry in the Tropical Zone: A Case Study of Coastal Aquifer Arroyo Grande, in the Caribbean Region of Colombia

Carlos Arroyo-Figueroa, Dayana Carolina Chalá, Guillermo Gutiérrez-Ribon and Edgar Quiñones-Bolaños

Water 2024, 16(12), 1650; DOI: 10.3390/w16121650

Article: Assessment of Drinking Water Quality in Northern Ethiopia Rural Area: A Case Study of Farta District, South Gondar Zone

Mesenbet Fentie, Eshetu Assefa, Dagnachew Aklog, Adugnaw Tadesse and Eshetu Janka

Water 2024, 16(12), 1651; DOI: 10.3390/w16121651

Article: Evaluation of River and Groundwater Quality in the Mzimvubu to Tsitsikamma Water Management Area (WMA7)

Lawrence Humbulani Mulangaphuma, David Odusanya and Nebo Jovanovic

Water 2024, 16(12), 1654; DOI: 10.3390/w16121654

Article: Hydrochemical Characteristics and Evolution under the Influence of Multiple Anthropogenic Activities in Karst Aquifers, Northern China

Chao Zhang, Baoxiang Zhang, Wenqing Zhang, Junyu Zou, Ruoyu Jia and Yuesuo Yang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1656; DOI: 10.3390/w16121656

Article: Modeling the Impact of Land Use Changes and Wastewater Treatment on Water Quality and Ecosystem Services in the Yongding River Basin, North China

Dan Dai and Angelos Alamanos

Water 2024, 16(12), 1701; DOI: 10.3390/w16121701

Article: Water Geochemistry and Inorganic Quality: Case of the Lower Rusizi Plain Aquifer, North-Western Burundi

Pierre Claver Ngenzebuhoro, Alain Dassargues, Tarik Bahaj and Othmane Hammani

Water 2024, 16(12), 1712; DOI: 10.3390/w16121712

Article: On-Site Chlorine: A Promising Technology in Drinking Water Treatment in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Guzmán Siomara, Quispe Wilber, Esenarro Doris and Ramiro Torrico-Irahola

Water 2024, 16(12), 1738; DOI: 10.3390/w16121738

 

Urban Water Management

Review: Literature Review: Adaptive Planning Practices

Tasneem Rangwala

Water 2024, 16(12), 1657; DOI: 10.3390/w16121657

Article: Hydrochemistry and Stable Isotopes for the Investigation of Water Movement in Bioretention Column Experiments

Yifan Yang, Xiang Zhang, Chao Wang, Lei Chen, Jinhan Cai and Jingyi Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1636; DOI: 10.3390/w16121636

Article: Knowledge Management Model for Urban Flood Emergency Response Based on Multimodal Knowledge Graphs

Mengkun Li, Chen Yuan, Kejin Li, Minzhong Gao, Yuan Zhang and Huiying Lv

Water 2024, 16(12), 1676; DOI: 10.3390/w16121676

Article: Constructing a Machine Learning Model for Rapid Urban Flooding Forecast in Sloping Cities along the Yangtze River: A Case Study in Jiujiang

Zhong Gao, Xiaoping Lu, Ruihong Chen, Minrui Guo and Xiaoxuan Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1694; DOI: 10.3390/w16121694

Article: A Structural Optimization of Urban Drainage Systems: An Optimization Approach for Mitigating Urban Floods

Yukun Zhang, Ersong Wang and Yongwei Gong

Water 2024, 16(12), 1696; DOI: 10.3390/w16121696

Article: Long-Term Stability of Low-Cost IoT System for Monitoring Water Quality in Urban Rivers

Manel Naloufi, Thiago Abreu, Sami Souihi, Claire Therial, Natália Angelotti de Ponte Rodrigues, Arthur Guillot Le Goff, Mohamed Saad, Brigitte Vinçon-Leite, Philippe Dubois, Marion Delarbre, Paul Kennouche and Françoise S. Lucas

Water 2024, 16(12), 1708; DOI: 10.3390/w16121708

Article: A Sponge Village Flood Response Method Based on GIS and RS Analysis Formation—A Case Study of Jiangou Village

Xuanshuo Liang, Ming Guo and Guoli Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1721; DOI: 10.3390/w16121721

Article: A Water Demand Forecasting Model Based on Generative Adversarial Networks and Multivariate Feature Fusion

Changchun Yang, Jiayang Meng, Banteng Liu, Zhangquan Wang and Ke Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1731; DOI: 10.3390/w16121731

Article: Carbon Emission Reduction of Reclaimed Water Use Substitution for Inter-Basin Water Transfer and Sustainability of Urban Water Supply in Valley Area

Nian Ma and Yongxin Xu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1733; DOI: 10.3390/w16121733

Article: An Optimal Upgrading Framework for Water Distribution Systems Operation

Abdulaziz H. Alsanad, Abdulrahman A. Bin Mahmoud and Saad I. Aljadhai

Water 2024, 16(12), 1737; DOI: 10.3390/w16121737

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Article: Experimental Study on the Hydraulic Performance of the Horizontal Main Drain of Building Drainage Systems Affected by Surfactants Sodium Dodecyl Benzene Sulfonate and Alkyl Ethoxylate-9

Shengjie Hu, Ping Xu and Bin Fu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1641; DOI: 10.3390/w16121641

Article: Settlement Prediction for Concrete Face Rockfill Dams Considering Major Factor Mining Based on the HHO-VMD-LSTM-SVR Model

Xueqin Zheng, Taozhe Ren, Fengying Lv, Yu Wang and Sen Zheng

Water 2024, 16(12), 1643; DOI: 10.3390/w16121643

Article: Modeling and Data Mining Analysis for Long-Term Temperature-Stress-Strain Monitoring Data of a Concrete Gravity Dam

Tao Zhou, Ning Ma, Xiaojun Su, Zhigang Wu, Wen Zhong and Ye Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1646; DOI: 10.3390/w16121646

Article: Baseflow from Snow and Rain in Mountain Watersheds

Helen Flynn, Steven R. Fassnacht, Marin S. MacDonald and Anna K. D. Pfohl

Water 2024, 16(12), 1665; DOI: 10.3390/w16121665

Article: Hydraulic Travel Time Diagnosis Using Recovery Data from Short-Term Pumping Tests for Rapid Aquifer Characterization: A Numerical Study with Monte-Carlo Simulations

Junjie Qi, Rui Hu, Linwei Hu, Quan Liu, Xiaolan Hou and Yang Song

Water 2024, 16(12), 1677; DOI: 10.3390/w16121677

Article: Analysis of Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Characteristics of Vertical-Slot, Double-Pool Fishway Based on Fluent

Shengzhe Qi, Chenghua Fu and Meiling Xie

Water 2024, 16(12), 1695; DOI: 10.3390/w16121695

Article: Developing Internal and External Proportional Integral Derivative Water Surface Controller in HEC-RAS

Kazem Shahverdi, Atefe Noorali, Hesam Ghodousi and Ronny Berndtsson

Water 2024, 16(12), 1699; DOI: 10.3390/w16121699

Article: A New Numerical Method to Evaluate the Stability of Dike Slope Considering the Influence of Backward Erosion Piping

Zhen Ma, Xiaobing Wang, Ning Shang and Qing Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1706; DOI: 10.3390/w16121706

Article: A Study on the Transient Characteristics of the Power-Off Transition Process of a Double-Volute Centrifugal Pump

Lifeng Lu, Ziwei Ren, Zhongzan Wang, Wenjie Zhou, Siwei Li, Jin Dai, Chunxia Yang and Mengfan Dang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1707; DOI: 10.3390/w16121707

Article: Investigation on the Effects of Volute Geometric Parameters on the Performance of Pico Francis Turbines Used in Water Pipes

Hequn Kang, Qilong Xin, Jiyun Du, Zhan Ge and Jinkuang Huang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1722; DOI: 10.3390/w16121722

Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems

Article: Plankton Community Changes and Nutrient Dynamics Associated with Blooms of the Pelagic Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium in the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Barrier Reef

Judith M. O’Neil, Cynthia A. Heil, Patricia M. Glibert, Caroline M. Solomon, Joan Greenwood and Jack G. Greenwood

Water 2024, 16(12), 1663; DOI: 10.3390/w16121663

Article: Assessing Zebra Mussels’ Impact on Fishway Efficiency: McNary Lock and Dam Case Study

Avery Schemmel, David L. Smith, Marcela Politano, Damian Walter and Jeremy Crossland

Water 2024, 16(12), 1671; DOI: 10.3390/w16121671

Article: Unraveling the Sea Slug Fauna from an Extremely Variable Environment, The ‘Passetto’ Rocky Tide Pools (North Adriatic Sea)

Yann Toso, Francesco Martini, Agnese Riccardi and Giulia Furfaro

Water 2024, 16(12), 1687; DOI: 10.3390/w16121687

Article: The Effect of Marine Pastures on Green Aquaculture in China

Wei Wang, Wei Mao and Renhong Wu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1730; DOI: 10.3390/w16121730

Article: Trophic Status of Lake Niesłysz (Poland) and Related Factors

Arkadiusz Nędzarek and Michał Budzyński

Water 2024, 16(12), 1736; DOI: 10.3390/w16121736

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Review: Arctic Oceanic Carbon Cycle: A Comprehensive Review of Mechanisms, Regulations, and Models

Xudong Ye, Baiyu Zhang, Justin Dawson, Christabel D. Amon, Chisom Ezechukwu, Ezinne Igwegbe, Qiao Kang, Xing Song and Bing Chen

Water 2024, 16(12), 1667; DOI: 10.3390/w16121667

Article: Exploring Integrated Ocean Management Policy in China: Evolution, Challenges, and Prospects

Hao Kong, Yuqi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yao Xu, Gang Zhou and Su Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1673; DOI: 10.3390/w16121673

Article: Characteristics and Sources of Heavy Metals Pollution in Surface Sediments: An Integrated Land–Sea Comparative Analysis in Dingzi Bay, South Yellow Sea

Xiaoyuan Gu, Yang Liu, Shixiong Yang, Jianwei Sun, Qingtong Wang, Haigen Wang, Yuhai Chen and Wei Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1692; DOI: 10.3390/w16121692

Article: Numerical Analysis of Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Submerged Structure in Irregular Waves

Ruijia Jin, Yu Zhang, Zhibo Zhou and Ming He

Water 2024, 16(12), 1693; DOI: 10.3390/w16121693

Article: The Use of Photo-Biological Parameters to Assess the Establishment Success of Posidonia oceanica Cuttings after Transplantation

Arnaud Boulenger, Stéphane Roberty, Maria Margarita Lopez Velosa, Michel Marengo and Sylvie Gobert

Water 2024, 16(12), 1702; DOI: 10.3390/w16121702

Article: Climate-Driven Wave Analysis Reveals Changes in Alongshore Sediment Transport: The Case of the Coastal Zone of a Harbor in Thermaikos Bay (NW Aegean Sea)

Christos Ntafloukas and Yiannis Savvidis

Water 2024, 16(12), 1703; DOI: 10.3390/w16121703

Article: Spatiotemporal Fusion Prediction of Sea Surface Temperatures Based on the Graph Convolutional Neural and Long Short-Term Memory Networks

Jingjing Liu, Lei Wang, Fengjun Hu, Ping Xu and Denghui Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1725; DOI: 10.3390/w16121725

Article: Changes in the Hydrological Regime of the Volga River and Their Influence on Caspian Sea Level Fluctuations

Elnur Safarov, Said Safarov and Emil Bayramov

Water 2024, 16(12), 1744; DOI: 10.3390/w16121744

Water Erosion and Sediment Transport

Article: Ship-Forced Sediment Transport: A New Model for Propeller Jet Flow

Carola Colangeli, Georgios Leftheriotis, Athanassios Dimas and Maurizio Brocchini

Water 2024, 16(12), 1647; DOI: 10.3390/w16121647

Article: Estimating Shear Strength of Marine Soft Clay Sediment: Experimental Research and Hybrid Ensemble Artificial Intelligence Modeling

Shuyu Hu, Zhikang Li, Haoyu Wang, Zhibo Xue, Peng Tan, Kun Tan, Yao Wu and Xianhui Feng

Water 2024, 16(12), 1664; DOI: 10.3390/w16121664

Water Use and Scarcity

Article: Optimal Allocation of Water Resources in Ordos City Based on the General Water Allocation and Simulation Model

Qiwei Shi, Limin Duan, Caiqi Cui, Lu Yang, Rong Hao, Ruidong Wang, Xiaoyan Lu, Ping Miao, Xuefeng Sang, Xiaomin Liu and Yanyun Luo

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Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 17 June 2024

The items/opinions compiled below are those of Elaine J. Hanford

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 17 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Underwater noise from ships getting louder and posing increasing threat to marine ecosystems

• https://hakaimagazine.com/features/quieting-the-global-growl/ 

Argon geochronology of volcanic eruption in Yellowstone and elsewhere

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/going-going-argon-determining-volcanic-eruption-ages-argon-geochronology

Texas RR Commission investigating blowout of another abandoned O&G well in Permian Basin

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062024/texas-permian-basin-oil-well-water-blowout/ 

Rock versus mineral – definitions are mostly clear-cut

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/whats-the-difference-between-a-rock-and-a-mineral 

The Great Oxidation Event was spread over 200 million years

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1047735 

Alignment of rock formations within fault zones may help explain why seismic events occur

• https://www.newsweek.com/earthquakes-study-california-sanandreas-brown-university-geology-1910508 

Landslide at Teton Pass, Wyoming

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/teton-pass-landslide-1 

JOIDES Resolution embarks on final research expedition

• https://eos.org/articles/the-joides-resolution-embarks-on-its-final-expedition 

Mechanisms & stresses triggering earthquakes along passive margins & interior of West Africa

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/ancient-crustal-weaknesses-contribute-to-modern-earthquakes-in-west-africa 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL107614 

Winchcombe meteorite records grain scale brecciation resulting from multiple collisions

• https://eos.org/articles/a-splashy-meteorite-was-forged-in-multiple-collisions 
• Paper:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.14164

Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise set ablaze by onboard bombs in 1969 fire – catalyst for safety reforms

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/navy-aircraft-carrier-uss-enterprise-was-set-ablaze-due-to-her-own-bombs/ar-BB1o6x5d 

Inner core oscillates from super-rotating (2003-2008) to sub-rotating (2008-2023) – progression & regression

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-rotation-earth-core.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07536-4

1937 aerial photos expose Antarctic anomaly & challenge modern climate narratives – revealing glacial changes over time along approximately 2,000 km coastline

• https://scitechdaily.com/challenging-modern-climate-narratives-forgotten-1937-aerial-photos-expose-antarctic-anomaly/ 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48886-x 

Pink sands composed of garnet crystals (about 590 myo) may reveal timing of subduction of Australian Plate beneath the Pacific Plate & presence of previously unknown Antarctic mountains

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-mountainous-mystery-uncovered-south-australia.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01467-8

Toward improved understanding of aerosols on weather – aerosol-cloud interaction

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-aerosols-affect-climate-previously-thought.html 
• https://new.nsf.gov/news/cloudy-chance-climate-predictions 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl5044 

Student storm chasers

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-students-crisscross-tornado-alley-storms.html 

Nature on AI – but does not recognize it as a technological hazard and generated text has already been published in peer reviewed journals – all research should begin with critical human thinking and the null hypothesis

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01475-5 

History associated with the Cumberland Gap

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/06/cumberland-gap-cleft-between-north-and-south 

Sinkhole forces closure of Generals Highway between Kings Canyon & Sequoia National Parks – cause not identified

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/06/update-sinkhole-closes-road-between-sequoia-and-kings-canyon-national-parks 

Rainfall in southern Florida identified as 1,000-year event – residents & local governments still not prepared

• https://scitechdaily.com/1000-year-deluge-floridas-rainfall-shatters-historical-records/ 
• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-miami-preview-future.html 

Haliskia peterseni – previously unknown 100 myo anhanguerian pterosaur found in Queensland, Australia

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/haliskia-peterseni-13016.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60889-8 

Epitornoceras baldisi – enigmatic Devonian ammonoid cephalopod in Argentina redescribed

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/epitornoceras-baldisi-13005.html 
• Paper:  https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/46/7 

Critical look at interpreting drill results:  lies, damn lies & highlights, cutoff grades & equivalents

• https://www.geologyforinvestors.com/lies-damn-lies-and-drill-highlights-a-critical-look-at-interpreting-drill-results/ 

Visualizing acreage burned by wildfires in the US in 2023 – California tops the list

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wildfire-area-burned-by-u-s-state-in-2023/ 

Wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton last expedition ship “Quest” to Antarctica found in the Labrador Sea at 1,280-foot depth

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/expedition-finds-wreckage-of-ship-on-which-shackleton-made-his-final-voyage/ 
• https://www.sciencealert.com/wreck-of-quest-shackletons-final-expedition-ship-discovered-at-bottom-of-atlantic 

Deposit of rare earth elements discovered in heart of Fen Carbonatite Complex in Norwegian volcano near Oslo

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/enormous-deposit-of-rare-earth-elements-discovered-in-heart-of-ancient-norwegian-volcano 
• Report:  https://rareearthsnorway.com/europes-largest-deposit-of-rare-earth-elements-discovered-at-fen-norway 

Meteo-tsunami caused flooding in Msida, Malta

• https://lovinmalta.com/lifestyle/environment/meteotsunami-causes-flooding-in-msida/ 

Lost age of egg-laying mammals evidenced by Echidnapus

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/echidnapus-newfound-species-mammal 
• Paper:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2024.2348753 

Hiker died from fall off cliff on the west side of St Mary’s Glacier in Colorado

• https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/hiker-dies-after-falling-off-cliff-on-west-side-of-st-marys-glacier 

Growing dependence on groundwater for irrigation is depleting groundwater systems – will be choice between slowing down rate of groundwater level declines and food security impacts for over-populated world

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1048230 
• Paper:  https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-3056003/v1/c4167c9c-7634-4f1d-aed2-5a6045cbc241.pdf?c=1687975294 

Potential drivers of global zinc cycle in the ocean

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-scientists-unravel-drivers-global-zinc.html 

Effects of thawing permafrost on topography & periglacial environment of China-Russia crude oil pipeline

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-exploring-effects-permafrost-topography-periglacial.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S034181622400331X 

Eleven prolonged cooling events occurred in mid- to late-Holocene – IPCC got it wrong again

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-uncovering-prolonged-cooling-events-holocene.html 

Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01380-0 

2021 monitoring of groundwater, surface water & soil at Ammonium Perchlorate Rocket Motor Destruction Facility at Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/environmental-monitoring-groundwater-surface-water-and-soil-ammonium-perchlorate 
• USGS OFR 2024-1031:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2024/1031/ofr20241031.pdf 

2020 streamflow, water quality & constituent loads and yields in Scituate Reservoir drainage area, Rhode Island

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/streamflow-water-quality-and-constituent-loads-and-yields-scituate-reservoir-15 
• USGS Data Report 1192:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/dr/1192/dr1192.pdf

Impact of short-duration, high-intensity precipitation as trigger for postfire debris flows in US Southwest

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/rainfall-intensification-amplifies-exposure-american-southwest-conditions-trigger 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s44304-024-00017-8 

Hurricane hunters go into the eye of the storm

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Hurricane_hunters_calm_science_pilots_in_eye_of_the_storm_999.html

Fuego volcano in Guatemala spewing gas & ash in “weak & moderate explosions”

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Volcano_rumblings_prompt_air_traffic_alert_in_Guatemala_999.html 

Iceland grants whaling license for 2024 to hunt and kill 128 fin whales

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Iceland_grants_whaling_license_for_2024_season_999.html 

Working on a plan to “refreeze the Arctic” – such hubris! – of course this will work – what could possibly go wrong?

• https://greekreporter.com/2024/06/10/dutch-startup-plan-refreeze-arctic/ 
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-working-desperate-plan-refreeze-143045184.html 

NOAA forecasts larger than average Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico – estimated 5,827 square miles

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-noaa-average-summer-dead-zone.html 

Virginia cuts back regulations for geologists for voluntary professional geologist certification to “eliminate redundancy”

• https://www.whro.org/environment/2024-06-13/certification-rules-for-virginia-geologists-who-help-reduce-environmental-hazards-change

7 geological features of Appalachia

• https://appvoices.org/2024/06/10/appalachian-wonders/ 

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 17 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Birth of rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills Lakota prophecy portending better times but also signals more must be done to protect Earth and animals

• https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/white-buffalo-calf-born-at-yellowstone-national-park https://time.com/6987690/reported-birth-rare-white-buffalo-calf-in-yellowstone-park-fulfills-lakota-prophecy/ 
• https://apnews.com/article/white-buffalo-calf-lakota-prophecy-yellowstone-c7c77fb2791c2ccc271222bd0174aa99 

Devastating consequences of using tranq

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/tranq-turns-more-illicit-drug-users-into-amputees/ar-BB1nTnT7

Massive reticulated python ate woman in Indonesia

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/python-swallows-woman-whole-indonesia-165250920.html

Pandemic was plagued by egregious state & federal policies that caused people to die

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cuomo-finally-forced-to-tell-whole-truth-about-covid-19-decisions-that-cost-thousands-of-lives/ar-BB1nWkPV 

Paper:  Long-lasting, biochemically modified mRNA and its frameshifted recombinant spike proteins in human tissues and circulation after vaxxing

• https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prp2.1218 

Making it sound like public drinking water supply is that much better than a private well – false assumption, just ask the people of Jackson, Mississippi, or Flint, Michigan

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062024/thousands-in-alabama-live-without-public-water/

Perspective:  human nature cannot be forever fooled - hyperinflation, spiking staple & gas prices, racial & tribal chauvinism, dangerous streets, an emasculated & politicized military, and wars abroad

• https://victorhanson.com/the-left-knows-leftism-doesnt-work/ 

Consequences and suffering are direct result of Biden open-border policies – violent crimes, murders, rapes, deadly drugs – latest Biden executive order will end these problems

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/ohio-sheriff-fed-crime-stemming-090055358.html 

Technological hazard:   Large language models such as ChatGPT are some of the most energy-guzzling technologies – “guzzling resources at planet-eating rates”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-ugly-truth-behind-chatgpt-ai-is-guzzling-resources-at-planet-eating-rates/ar-BB1niVbN 

Europeans realizing that “green” and “renewable” policies are too burdensome and expensive 

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europe-turns-its-back-on-green-policy-and-embraces-the-right/ar-BB1nYh3w

Unsanctioned DC Pride events leave piles of garbage in Dupont Circle

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dupont-circle-park-littered-with-garbage-during-pride-festivities/ar-BB1nZ9br 

BLM preferred alternative site reduces proposed large-scale Lava Ridge wind farm by 40% & moves closest turbine 7 miles further from Minidoka National Historical Site 

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/bureau-of-land-management-shrinks-proposed-size-of-controversial-idaho-wind-farm-project/ar-BB1nZoFh 
• Final Environmental Review:  https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-issues-final-environmental-review-proposed-lava-ridge-wind-project 

Construction begins on next-generation nuclear power plant in Wyoming – Bill Gates has finger on the button and his motivation really is to make lots of money – problem:  fuel is produced in China & Russia

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/bill-gates-terrapower-ventures-into-advanced-nuclear-plant-construction-aiming-to-combat-climate-crisis-i-ve-been-waiting-for-this-day-for-nearly-20-years/ar-BB1nZMNN
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/gates-backed-nuclear-plant-breaks-ground-without-guarantee-it-ll-have-fuel/ar-BB1o2Q5T 

High-speed rail:  California “wasting stupefying sums of money” & not a single mile of installed track after spending estimated $11.2B with total projected cost now at $128B – will Texas repeat that debacle?

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/12/will-texas-repeat-californias-bullet-train-debacle/

Environmental Working Group report suggests at least 2.5M North Carolinians drinking water contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals

• https://www.ewg.org/research/state-forever-chemicals-spotlight-north-carolinas-drinking-water-contamination 
• https://www.wral.com/story/new-report-shows-public-drinking-water-systems-in-nc-contaminated-with-pfas/21467917/ 

India designates Nagi Bird Sanctuary & Nakti Bird Sanctuary as wetlands of international importance

• https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/274396826/india-names-two-new-wetlands-of-international-importance-on-world-environment-day 

Call for revamping federal farming subsidies in drought-ridden Colorado River Basin

• https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4708391-colorado-river-basin-federal-farming-subsidies-drought-climate-change-report/ 
• Report Overview:  https://www.ewg.org/research/hotter-drier-colorado-river-region-usda-programs-dont-help-farmers-tackle-climate-crisis 

FarmHQ being touted as cost-effective cellular technology to manage irrigation agriculture

• https://www.futurefarming.com/crop-solutions/farmhq-building-the-internet-of-irrigation/ 

Photo project to help document history of T Plant at Hanford Nuclear Reservation where plutonium was extracted from uranium fuel rods

• https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/photo-project-help-document-hanfords-historic-t-plant 

Loss of topsoil in agricultural lands – difficulties of predicting the future

• https://eos.org/articles/agricultural-lands-are-losing-topsoil-heres-how-bad-it-could-get 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0341816224002716

Another problem for EV charging stations – theft of charging cables

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thefts-of-charging-cables-pose-yet-another-obstacle-to-appeal-of-electric-vehicles/ar-BB1o3LwG 

“Megaconstellations” composed of remnant aluminum oxide particles from old satellites (space junk) burn up in the atmosphere may pose risk to the ‘ozone hole’ by causing ozone depletion

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-megaconstellations-jeopardize-recovery-ozone.html 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280 

Meanwhile, chlorofluorocarbon chemicals (CFCs) are declining in the atmosphere as Montreal Protocol phase out continues

• https://theconversation.com/the-last-ozone-layer-damaging-chemicals-to-be-phased-out-are-finally-falling-in-the-atmosphere-232045 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02038-7  

 

Nitrous oxide emissions from human activities increased from 270 ppb in 1750 to 336 ppb in 2022 with 40% increase from 1980 to 2020 – but lets hype CO2 from fossil fuels despite N2O being 265X more potent GHG

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-human-nitrous-oxide-emissions-grew.html 
• Paper:  https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/2543/2024/

 

Not just covid - Fauci & NIAID approved plans to engineer (gain-of-function) enhanced version of Monkeypox (MPXV) & lied to Congress about the plan

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/could-spark-an-epidemic-house-committee-report-alleges-fauci-and-niaid-concealed-plans-to-engineer-enhanced-monkeypox-virus/ar-BB1o 

 

Update:  FERC granted permission for Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline to begin operation

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/mountain-valley-pipeline-finally-gets-federal-approval-to-start-service/ar-BB1o64F8 

In Congressional testimony Cuomo still does not care about the deaths he caused by sending covid infected patients into nursing homes & exposing vulnerable population to the virus

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/andrew-cuomo-ripped-as-he-repeats-infamous-who-cares-response-to-nursing-home-covid-deaths-in-congressional-interview/ar-BB1o8JCM 

Nature on AI – but does not recognize that it is a technological hazard and that AI generated text has already been published in peer reviewed journals – all research should begin with critical human thinking

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01475-5 

Court ruling in Georgia on property seizure of business involved in catalytic converter “recycling”

• https://thecurrentga.org/2024/06/12/georgia-supreme-court-rules-against-countys-property-seizure-from-catalytic-converter-recyclers/ 

How NRDC manages watershed and dams in Nebraska

• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/nrcs-dams-time-and-weather-tested 

Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia poised to become the tallest building in the world – a dubious honor

• https://daily.jstor.org/the-race-to-be-the-tallest-building-in-the-world/ 

Insane threshold of EV subsidies means you are paying for them – hordes of tax rebates & credits = $1B+

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/taxpayer-subsidies-for-other-people-s-evs-have-reached-an-insane-threshold/ar-BB1obQ04 

California governor more than doubled number of National Guard troops along Southern Border to grapple with border encounters, smugglers, and illegal drug trade

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gavin-newsom-doubles-national-guard-troops-at-california-border/ar-BB1obJr8 

Wind farms threated birds and bats – need to consider all wildlife

• https://www.dailynews.com/2024/06/10/wind-farms-wildlife-clean-energy/ 

Visualizing illegal immigrant population by state based on 2021 estimates – numbers are higher now

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-unauthorized-immigrants-by-state/ 

Why rate of loss of wetlands in the US is described as accelerating

• https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-losing-wetlands-at-an-accelerating-rate-heres-how-the-private-sector-can-help-protect-these-valuable-resources-226870 

Efforts to conserve seals & ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska

• https://theconversation.com/scientists-and-indigenous-leaders-team-up-to-conserve-seals-and-an-ancestral-way-of-life-at-yakutat-alaska-228487 

Biden could not even control his dog Commander when it attacked on 3 separate occasions of the 24 times the dog bit Secret Service agents

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/have-a-safe-shift-biden-reportedly-stood-by-as-his-dog-attacked-secret-service-agents/ar-BB1oc5jg 

Lifetime reproductive characteristics of wolves

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/lifetime-reproductive-characteristics-gray-wolves
• Paper:  https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyae042/7666723 

Method to calculate carbon credits (and offsets) to “protect” forests is flawed

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Carbon_credits_protecting_forests_use_flawed_calculations_study_999.html 

Unsecured tanker hatch spilled gas in crash that destroyed I-95 bridge in Philadelphia in 2023 – human error

• https://apnews.com/article/i95-highway-collapse-philadelphia-bb9c0faa6dbedf4a67f70872f5b3ffab

BLM announces availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement for Greenlink West Transmission Project Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments – begins 30-day protest period

• https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2017391/510 
• Final EIS:  https://eplanning.blm.gov/public_projects/2017391/200514145/20113681/251013672/1_Final%20EIS%20Proposed%20Resource%20Management%20Plan%20Amendments.pdf 

275 so-called “green” fuel refineries *biofuel & ethanol manufactures in the US) used federal regulation loopholes to release 12M tons of toxic materials to the air that adversely impact human health

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/green-fuel-plants-are-releasing-millions-of-pounds-pollutants-yearly/ar-BB1ob2BJ 

Hog farming is big business (9M hogs) in North Carolina – BCBS declines screening “The Smell of Money”

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13062024/blue-cross-north-carolina-cancels-hog-farm-documentary-screening/ 

NIH scientists raked in $710M in royalties from Big Pharma during the Pandemic late 2021 through 2023 - $690M of that went to Fauci led NIAID

• https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/opinion/nih-scientists-made-710m-in-royalties-from-drug-makers-a-fact-they-tried-to-hide/ 

Future of lightning bugs? And the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival – might it have something to do with humans destroying their habitat and using prolific amounts of pesticides? But blame “climate change”

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15062024/firefly-populations-climate-change-threat/ 

Tribunal puts Mountain Valley Pipeline on trial – violation of the rights of nature and the rights of Indigenous people

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15062024/mountain-valley-pipeline-tribunal-north-carolina/ 

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 Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 17 June 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Removal of Glines Canyon Dam in 2013 on Elwha River released “centuries worth” of sediment that flowed downstream bringing nutrients to the Washington coast

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/scientists-uncover-lasting-impact-of-monumental-dam-removal-project-you-can-change-the-marine-ecosystem/ar-BB1nW6hv 
• https://hakaimagazine.com/news/will-undamming-rivers-be-the-oceans-undoing-or-renewal/ 

Outside investors & rampant development threaten coastal environment & aquifers in Baja

• https://hakaimagazine.com/features/buying-baja/

Now we are supposed to blame “climate change” for saturated sand pockets on the beach!?

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/woman-swallowed-quicksand-while-enjoying-191827356.html 
• Some info on quicksand:  https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/caught-in-quicksand 

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa killed thousands of birds on Bedout Island, Australia, in 2023 – happened before & will happen again but must be attributed to intensifying storms due to “man-made global warming”

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062024/tropical-storms-threaten-seabirds/ 

Super-large diameter slurry tunnel boring machines launched for drilling Jintang subsea tunnel

• https://www.constructionbriefing.com/news/tbms-launched-for-world-s-longest-subsea-high-speed-railway-tunnel/8037566.article 

$22M Phase II of restoring beach on 14-mile-long Dauphin Island in Alabama – but it is a barrier island that naturally erodes

• https://csengineermag.com/restoring-dauphin-islands-beach-just-in-time-for-summer/ 

Proposed $980M addition to first liquid propane gas (LPG) export terminal at Prine Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

• https://www.enr.com/articles/58788-canadas-first-liquid-propane-export-site-will-build-980m-addition 

New model intended to help ships avoid potential shipping accidents in ports and harbors

• https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2024/06/11/new-model-helps-ships-recognize-avoid-potential-port-accidents 
• Paper:  https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/AJRUA6.RUENG-1190

Louisiana has committed $230+M for port infrastructure projects in Port of New Orleans

• https://wgno.com/news/louisiana/orleans-parish/port-of-new-orleans-gets-230m-for-infrastructure-projects/ 

South Brooklyn Marine Terminal to be “epicenter” of renewable wind energy in New York

• https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2024/06/10/wind-energy-hub-set-for-south-brooklyn-marine-terminal 

UNESCO heritage site of Delos, Greece, may succumb to weathering & erosion

• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-ancient-greek-sanctuary-slowly-aegean.html 

Lost utopia in the Caribbean – Eleutheria

• https://daily.jstor.org/eleutheria-a-lost-utopia-in-the-caribbean/ 

3 of top 10 most polluted beaches are located in California - Imperial Beach is the worst & has been closed for more than 2 years – also Linda Mar Beach & Avila Beach

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-beach-is-nation-s-most-polluted-study-says-people-are-getting-sick-left-and-right/ar-BB1o4SMG 

Censors to be installed off the coast of Hull to monitor marine conditions

• https://www.hulltimes.com/ht-online/2024/5/30/sensors-to-be-installed-off-hulls-coastline-to-collect-data-monitor-sea-level-rise 

If you build it, they may not come - 1.7M square-foot RaDD life science center in San Diego, California

• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/06/13/few-signs-of-life-at-life-science-city-on-san-diego-bay/ 

Rainfall in southern Florida identified as 1,000-year event – residents & local governments still not prepared

• https://scitechdaily.com/1000-year-deluge-floridas-rainfall-shatters-historical-records/ 
• https://phys.org/news/2024-06-miami-preview-future.html 

$2.7B plan to “protect” Miami, Florida, from storm surge flooding

• https://secretmiami.com/miami-dade-storm-surge-protection-plan/ 
• https://www.floridaoftomorrow.com/post/the-2-7-billion-plan-to-protect-miami-real-estate-from-catastrophic-storm-surge-is-close-to-finishe 

Puerto Rico restores power after massive blackout during heat wave

• https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-power-outage-luma-029e3452bfe5910ce0a6f02d028c5cde 

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"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested." - Tom Wolfe, quoted in Politico

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 10 June 2024

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.

Enjoy!

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

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, Jing Liu and Anhua Zhou

Water 2024, 16(10), 1325; DOI: 10.3390/w16101325

Article: Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability to Seawater Intrusion Using GALDIT, SITE and SIVI Methods in Laspias River Coastal Aquifer System, NE Greece

Christina Pliaka, Ioannis Gkiougkis, Dimitrios Karasogiannidis, Panagiotis Angelidis, Andreas Kallioras and Fotios-Konstantinos Pliakas

Water 2024, 16(10), 1341; DOI: 10.3390/w16101341

Article: Do Water Transfer Projects Promote Water Use Efficiency? Case Study of South-to-North Water Transfer Project in Yellow River Basin of China

Li Ma and Qi Wang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1367; DOI: 10.3390/w16101367

Article: Multi-Objective Synergetic Operation for Cascade Reservoirs in the Upper Yellow River

Kunhui Hong, Wei Zhang, Aixing Ma, Yucong Wei and Mingxiong Cao

Water 2024, 16(10), 1416; DOI: 10.3390/w16101416

Article: Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Baseflow Based on Monthly Water Balance Modeling and Baseflow Separation

Huawei Xie, Haotian Hu, Donghui Xie, Bingjiao Xu, Yuting Chen, Zhengjie Zhou, Feizhen Zhang and Hui Nie

Water 2024, 16(10), 1437; DOI: 10.3390/w16101437

Water Quality and Contamination

Review: The Role of Ferrate (VI) in the Pretreatment of Algal Cells and Algal Organic Matters: A Review

Saige Wang, Shuyi Yang, Huan Chen and Qiufeng Lin

Water 2024, 16(10), 1361; DOI: 10.3390/w16101361

Article: A Qualitative Study of Water Quality Using Landsat 8 and Station Water Quality-Monitoring Data to Support SDG 6.3.2 Evaluations: A Case Study of Deqing, China

Hao Chen, Changmiao Tan, Huanhua Peng, Wentao Yang and Lelin Li

Water 2024, 16(10), 1319; DOI: 10.3390/w16101319

Article: Analyzing Priority Management for Water Quality Improvement Strategies with Regional Characteristics

Jimin Lee, Minji Park, Byungwoong Choi, Jinsun Kim and Eun Hye Na

Water 2024, 16(10), 1333; DOI: 10.3390/w16101333

Article: Potential Climate and Human Water-Use Effects on Water-Quality Trends in a Semiarid, Western U.S. Watershed: Fountain Creek, Colorado, USA

Carleton R. Bern, Manya H. Ruckhaus and Erin Hennessy

Water 2024, 16(10), 1343; DOI: 10.3390/w16101343

Article: Connecting Water Quality and Ecosystem Services for Valuation and Assessment of a Groundwater Reserve Area in South-East Mexico

Myrna L. López-Monzalvo, Eduardo Batllori-Sampedro, Jairo A. Ayala-Godoy, Eugenio Guerrero-Ruiz and Laura M. Hernández-Terrones

Water 2024, 16(10), 1358; DOI: 10.3390/w16101358

Article: Application of Oversampling Techniques for Enhanced Transverse Dispersion Coefficient Estimation Performance Using Machine Learning Regression

Sunmi Lee and Inhwan Park

Water 2024, 16(10), 1359; DOI: 10.3390/w16101359

Article: Assessment of Microplastic Pollution in River Ecosystems: Effect of Land Use and Biotic Indices

David Gutiérrez-Rial, Iria Villar, Romina Álvarez-Troncoso, Benedicto Soto, Salustiano Mato and Josefina Garrido

Water 2024, 16(10), 1369; DOI: 10.3390/w16101369

Article: Wastewater Treatment Plants Performance for Reuse: Evaluation of Bacterial and Viral Risks

Ileana Federigi, Roberto Salvadori, Giulia Lauretani, Anna Leone, Simone Lippi, Francesca Marvulli, Alessandra Pagani, Marco Verani and Annalaura Carducci

Water 2024, 16(10), 1399; DOI: 10.3390/w16101399

Article: Toward Decontamination in Coastal Regions: Groundwater Quality, Fluoride, Nitrate, and Human Health Risk Assessments within Multi-Aquifer Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia

Mohamed A. Yassin, Sani I. Abba, Syed Muzzamil Hussain Shah, Abdullahi G. Usman, Johnbosco C. Egbueri, Johnson C. Agbasi, Abid Khogali, Husam Musa Baalousha, Isam H. Aljundi, Saad Sha. Sammen and Miklas Scholz

Water 2024, 16(10), 1401; DOI: 10.3390/w16101401

Article: The DPSIR Model-Based Sustainability Assessment of Urban Water Resources: A Comparative Study of Zhuhai and Macao

Yang Bai, Jiaman Qin, Wenjing Liu, Linhan Li, Yang Wu and Peng Zhang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1413; DOI: 10.3390/w16101413

Article: Monitoring and Assessment of the Quality of Chlorinated Water in Schools

Vanessa Stein, Alessandro Cazonatto Galvão, Alexandre Tadeu Paulino, Alex Molina Manfredi, Edmar Martendal, Tainara Vieira and Weber da Silva Robazza

Water 2024, 16(10), 1415; DOI: 10.3390/w16101415

Article: Water Quality and the First-Flush Effect in Roof-Based Rainwater Harvesting, Part II: First Flush

Jessica J. Lay, Jason R. Vogel, Jason B. Belden, Glenn O. Brown and Daniel E. Storm

Water 2024, 16(10), 1421; DOI: 10.3390/w16101421

Article: Research on Multi-Factor Effects of Nitrogen Loss in Slope Runoff

Lei Wang, Na Wang, Qing Zhang, Jiajun Wu, Shilei Wang, Min Pang, Jifeng Wang, Chao Zhou, Yehui Han, Zhixin Yang and Liang Jin

Water 2024, 16(10), 1431; DOI: 10.3390/w16101431

Article: Time-Domain Transfer Learning for Accurate Heavy Metal Concentration Retrieval Using Remote Sensing and TrAdaBoost Algorithm: A Case Study of Daxigou, China

Yun Yang, Qingzhen Tian, Han Bai, Yongqiang Wei, Yi Yan and Aidi Huo

Water 2024, 16(10), 1439; DOI: 10.3390/w16101439

Article: Geochemistry of Arsenic and Salinity-Contaminated Groundwater and Mineralogy of Sediments in the Coastal Aquifers of Southwest Bangladesh

Md Riaz Uddin, Ashraf Uddin, Ming-Kuo Lee, Jake Nelson, Anwar Zahid, Md Maruful Haque and Nazmus Sakib

Water 2024, 16(10), 1442; DOI: 10.3390/w16101442

Article: Water Composition, Biomass, and Species Distribution of Vascular Plants in Lake Agmon-Hula (LAH) (1993–2023) and Nearby Surroundings: A Review

Moshe Gophen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1450; DOI: 10.3390/w16101450

Urban Water Management

Review: Life Cycle Assessment of Pervious Pavements: Integrative Review and Novel Ideas of Analysis

Igor Catão Martins Vaz, Lucas Niehuns Antunes, Enedir Ghisi and Liseane Padilha Thives

Water 2024, 16(10), 1403; DOI: 10.3390/w16101403

Article: Improving the Efficiency and Environmental Friendliness of Urban Stormwater Management by Enhancing the Water Filtration Model in Rain Gardens

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

Water 2024, 16(10), 1316; DOI: 10.3390/w16101316

Article: Assessing Pipe Condition in Water Distribution Networks

Marta Cabral, Duarte Gray, Bruno Brentan and Dídia Covas

Water 2024, 16(10), 1318; DOI: 10.3390/w16101318

Article: Linking Nutrient Dynamics with Urbanization Degree and Flood Control Reservoirs on the Bahlui River

Nicolae Marcoie, Șerban Chihaia, Tomi Alexăndrel Hrăniciuc, Cătălin Dumitrel Balan, Elena Niculina Drăgoi and Mircea-Teodor Nechita

Water 2024, 16(10), 1322; DOI: 10.3390/w16101322

Article: Classification of Pollution Sources and Their Contributions to Surface Water Quality Using APCS-MLR and PMF Model in a Drinking Water Source Area in Southeastern China

Ai Wang, Jiangyu Wang, Benjie Luan, Siru Wang, Dawen Yang and Zipeng Wei

Water 2024, 16(10), 1356; DOI: 10.3390/w16101356

Article: Exploring Endogenous Processes in Water Supply Systems: Insights from Statistical Methods and δ¹⁸O Analysis

Nikolina Novotni-Horčička, Tamara Marković, Ivan Kovač and Igor Karlović

Water 2024, 16(10), 1425; DOI: 10.3390/w16101425

Article: Storage Scale Assessment of a Low-Impact Development System in a Sponge City

Mingkun Xie, Dongxu He, Zengchuan Dong and Yuning Cheng

Water 2024, 16(10), 1427; DOI: 10.3390/w16101427

Article: A New Concept of Flashboard Risers in Controlled Drainage Structures

Michał Napierała

Water 2024, 16(10), 1436; DOI: 10.3390/w16101436

Article: Factors Associated with Public Water Supply Unreliability

Fahad Alzahrani and Rady Tawfik

Water 2024, 16(10), 1446; DOI: 10.3390/w16101446

Article: Case Study for Predicting Failures in Water Supply Networks Using Neural Networks

Viviano de Sousa Medeiros, Moisés Dantas dos Santos and Alisson Vasconcelos Brito

Water 2024, 16(10), 1455; DOI: 10.3390/w16101455

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Review: Enhancing Flood Risk Management: A Comprehensive Review on Flood Early Warning Systems with Emphasis on Numerical Modeling

Diego Fernández-Nóvoa, José González-Cao and Orlando García-Feal

Water 2024, 16(10), 1408; DOI: 10.3390/w16101408

 

Article: Estimating Stage-Frequency Curves for Engineering Design in Small Ungauged Arctic Watersheds

Chandler Engel, Anna Wagner, Jeremy Giovando, David Ho, Blaine Morriss and Elias Deeb

Water 2024, 16(10), 1321; DOI: 10.3390/w16101321

Article: Experimental Study of Laser-Induced Cavitation Bubbles near Wall: Plasma Shielding Observation

Rui Zhou, Kangwen Li, Yupeng Cao, Weidong Shi, Yongfei Yang, Linwei Tan, Ranran Hu and Yongxin Jin

Water 2024, 16(10), 1324; DOI: 10.3390/w16101324

Article: Methodology to Increase the Efficiency of the Mineral Water Extraction Process

Yury Valeryevich Ilyushin and Victoria Andreevna Nosova

Water 2024, 16(10), 1329; DOI: 10.3390/w16101329

Article: Vison Transformer-Based Automatic Crack Detection on Dam Surface

Jian Zhou, Guochuan Zhao and Yonglong Li

Water 2024, 16(10), 1348; DOI: 10.3390/w16101348

Article: Study on Seismic Source Parameter Characteristics of Baihetan Reservoir Area in the Lower Reaches of the Jinsha River

Jing Shi, Cuiping Zhao, Zhousheng Yang and Lisheng Xu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1370; DOI: 10.3390/w16101370

Article: Integrated Time-Dependent Analysis of a Hydraulic Structure on Soft Foundations during Construction

Chao Xu, Liang Ye, Suli Pan and Wen Luo

Water 2024, 16(10), 1375; DOI: 10.3390/w16101375

Article: Digital Flow in a Pool Induced by a Vertical Jet

Rita F. Carvalho, Pedro M. Lopes and Md Nazmul A. Beg

Water 2024, 16(10), 1386; DOI: 10.3390/w16101386

Article: A Multi-Point Joint Prediction Model for High-Arch Dam Deformation Considering Spatial and Temporal Correlation

Wenhan Cao, Zhiping Wen, Yanming Feng, Shuai Zhang and Huaizhi Su

Water 2024, 16(10), 1388; DOI: 10.3390/w16101388

Article: Research on Energy Loss of Optimization of Inducer–Impeller Axial Fit Dimensions Based on Wave-Piercing Theory

Zhiqin Yang, Puyu Cao, Jinfeng Zhang, Shuyu Gao, Xinyan Song and Rui Zhu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1385; DOI: 10.3390/w16101385

Article: Simulation of Sloped-Bed Tuned Liquid Dampers Using a Nonlinear Shallow Water Model

Mahdiyar Khanpour, Abdolmajid Mohammadian, Hamidreza Shirkhani and Reza Kianoush

Water 2024, 16(10), 1394; DOI: 10.3390/w16101394

Article: A Numerical Model of the Pollutant Transport in Rivers with Multi-Layer Rigid Vegetation

Weidong Xuan, Chenggang Yang, Xiang Wu, Yiting Shao and Yu Bai

Water 2024, 16(10), 1397; DOI: 10.3390/w16101397

Article: Experimental Study on Near-Wall Laser-Induced Cavitation Bubble Micro-Dimple Formation on 7050 Aluminum Alloy

Yupeng Cao, Ranran Hu, Weidong Shi and Rui Zhou

Water 2024, 16(10), 1410; DOI: 10.3390/w16101410

Article: Investigation of Non-Uniform Inflow Effects on Impeller Forces in Axial-Flow Pumps Operating as Turbines

Kan Kan, Qingying Zhang, Hui Xu, Jiangang Feng, Zhenguo Song, Jianping Cheng and Maxime Binama

Water 2024, 16(10), 1428; DOI: 10.3390/w16101428

Editorial: Advances in Hydrodynamics of Water Pump Station System

Changliang Ye, Yuan Zheng, Kan Kan, Ran Tao and Huixiang Chen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1430; DOI: 10.3390/w16101430

Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems

Article: Testing 16S Primers for Proper Identification of Cyanobacterial Communities in Small Water Bodies

Łukasz Łach, Nataliia Khomutovska, Jan Kwiatowski and Iwona Jasser

Water 2024, 16(10), 1357; DOI: 10.3390/w16101357

Article: Vulnerability Assessment of Groundwater Influenced Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States

Shawn D. Snyder, Cynthia S. Loftin and Andrew S. Reeve

Water 2024, 16(10), 1366; DOI: 10.3390/w16101366

Article: Excessive Eutrophication as a Chemical Barrier for Fish Fauna Dispersion: A Case Study in the Emblematic Tietê River (São Paulo, Brazil)

Bruna Urbanski and Marcos Nogueira

Water 2024, 16(10), 1383; DOI: 10.3390/w16101383

Article: Estimation of Phytoplankton Primary Productivity in Qinghai Lake Using Ocean Color Satellite Data: Seasonal and Interannual Variations

Xuan Ban, Yingchao Dang, Peng Shu, Hongfang Qi, Ying Luo, Fei Xiao, Qi Feng and Yadong Zhou

Water 2024, 16(10), 1433; DOI: 10.3390/w16101433

Article: Karenia brevis and Pyrodinium bahamense Utilization of Dissolved Organic Matter in Urban Stormwater Runoff and Rainfall Entering Tampa Bay, Florida

Amanda L. Muni-Morgan, Mary G. Lusk and Cynthia A. Heil

Water 2024, 16(10), 1448; DOI: 10.3390/w16101448

Article: Mitigation of Karenia brevis Cells and Brevetoxins Using Curcumin, a Natural Supplement

Emily R. Hall, Cynthia A. Heil, Jessica D. Frankle, Sarah Klass, Victoria Devillier, Vincent Lovko, Jennifer H. Toyoda and Richard Pierce

Water 2024, 16(10), 1458; DOI: 10.3390/w16101458

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Article: Numerical Analysis of Dynamic Response in Large Caissons during Wet-towing after Cable Breakage

Haoyang Gu, Qingyun Xu, Huakun Wang and Weibing Feng

Water 2024, 16(10), 1335; DOI: 10.3390/w16101335

Article: Remote Measurement of Tide and Surge Using a Deep Learning System with Surveillance Camera Images

Gaetano Sabato, Giovanni Scardino, Alok Kushabaha, Giulia Casagrande, Marco Chirivì, Giorgio Fontolan, Saverio Fracaros, Antonio Luparelli, Sebastian Spadotto and Giovanni Scicchitano

Water 2024, 16(10), 1365; DOI: 10.3390/w16101365

Article: Study on the Typical Environmental Factors in the Middle Part of Zhoushan Fishery Based on HY-1C/D and Other Multi-Source Data

Xinkai Zhang, Lina Cai, Menghan Yu and Rong Tang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1387; DOI: 10.3390/w16101387

Article: Monsoons and Tide-Induced Eddies Deflect the Dispersion of the Thermal Plume in Nan Wan Bay

Hung-Jen Lee, Shih-Jen Huang, Pei-Jie Meng, Chung-Chi Chen, Chia-Ying Ho and Yi-Chen Tsai

Water 2024, 16(10), 1420; DOI: 10.3390/w16101420

Article: Formation of Abnormal Gas-Geochemical Fields and Dissolved Gases Transport at the Shallow Northeastern Shelf of Sakhalin Island in Warm Season: Expedition Data and Remote Sensing

Nadezhda Syrbu, Andrey Kholmogorov, Igor Stepochkin, Vyacheslav Lobanov and Svetlana Shkorba

Water 2024, 16(10), 1434; DOI: 10.3390/w16101434

Article: Incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulation of Sediment Erosion around Submarine Pipelines

Sheng Yan, Dong Wang, Yan Li, Yu Gao, Jianguo Lin and Yawei Shi

Water 2024, 16(10), 1445; DOI: 10.3390/w16101445

Water Erosion and Sediment Transport

Article: A Sand Boil Database for Piping Risk Management in the Po River, Italy

Laura Tonni, Michela Marchi, Agnese Bassi and Alessandro Rosso

Water 2024, 16(10), 1384; DOI: 10.3390/w16101384

General

Review: Soft vs. Hard Sustainability Approach in Marine Spatial Planning: Challenges and Solutions

Fatemeh Rezaei, Pasquale Contestabile, Diego Vicinanza, Arianna Azzellino, Carlos V. C. Weiss and José Juanes

Water 2024, 16(10), 1382; DOI: 10.3390/w16101382

Review: A Comprehensive Review of Methods for Hydrological Forecasting Based on Deep Learning

Xinfeng Zhao, Hongyan Wang, Mingyu Bai, Yingjie Xu, Shengwen Dong, Hui Rao and Wuyi Ming

Water 2024, 16(10), 1407; DOI: 10.3390/w16101407

Article: Timescale of Groundwater Recharge in High Percolation Coastal Plain Soils

Qing Du and Mark Ross

Water 2024, 16(10), 1320; DOI: 10.3390/w16101320

Article: Response of Soil Moisture to Four Rainfall Regimes and Tillage Measures under Natural Rainfall in Red Soil Region, Southern China

Ziwei Liang, Xiaoan Chen, Ce Wang and Zhanyu Zhang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1331; DOI: 10.3390/w16101331

Article: Effect of Humic Amendment on Selected Hydrophysical Properties of Sandy and Clayey Soils

Branislav Kandra, Andrej Tall, Justína Vitková, Michal Procházka and Peter Šurda

Water 2024, 16(10), 1338; DOI: 10.3390/w16101338

Article: Research on the Reconstruction of Aquatic Vegetation Landscape in Coal Mining Subsidence Wetlands Based on Ecological Water Level

Pingjia Luo, Mengchu Zhang and Shiyuan Zhou

Water 2024, 16(10), 1339; DOI: 10.3390/w16101339

Article: Temporal Phosphorus Dynamics in Shallow Eutrophic Lake Suwa, Japan

Yutaka Ichikawa, Takashi Kunito and Yuichi Miyabara

Water 2024, 16(10), 1340; DOI: 10.3390/w16101340

Article: Dry and Wet Spells in Poland in the Period 1966–2023

Joanna Wibig

Water 2024, 16(10), 1344; DOI: 10.3390/w16101344

Article: Impact of Hill Fires on Dissolved Organic Matter in Watersheds of Karst Areas Based on Three-Dimensional Fluorescence-Parallel Factor Analysis

Kangming Shi, Huarong Zhao and Zikang Ren

Water 2024, 16(10), 1346; DOI: 10.3390/w16101346

Article: Hazard Assessment of Debris Flow: A Case Study of the Huiyazi Debris Flow

Yuntao Guo, Zhen Feng, Lichao Wang, Yifan Tian and Liang Chen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1349; DOI: 10.3390/w16101349

Article: Comparative Study on the Determination of Chlorophyll-a in Lake Phytoplankton by a YSI Multi-Parameter Water Quality Meter and Laboratory Spectrophotometric Method

Jie Wang, Lizeng Duan, Donglin Li, Yuwei Zhang, Zheng Yuan, Huayu Li and Hucai Zhang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1350; DOI: 10.3390/w16101350

Article: The Elimination of Levofloxacin from High-Salinity Wastewater via the Electrochlorination Process

Mingfei Wei, Jingyu Li, Bingqing Jing, Xuankun Li and Guanghui Li

Water 2024, 16(10), 1355; DOI: 10.3390/w16101355

Article: Polystyrene Plastic Particles Result in Adverse Outcomes for Hyalella azteca When Exposed at Elevated Temperatures

Felix Biefel, Susanne M. Brander, Richard E. Connon and Juergen Geist

Water 2024, 16(10), 1360; DOI: 10.3390/w16101360

Article: An Efficient Water Quality Prediction and Assessment Method Based on the Improved Deep Belief Network—Long Short-Term Memory Model

Zhiyao Zhao, Bing Fan and Yuqin Zhou

Water 2024, 16(10), 1362; DOI: 10.3390/w16101362

Article: Sorption-Based Removal Techniques for Microplastic Contamination of Tap Water

Natalya S. Salikova, Almagul R. Kerimkulova, Javier Rodrigo-Ilarri, Kulyash K. Alimova, María-Elena Rodrigo-Clavero and Gulzhanat A. Kapbassova

Water 2024, 16(10), 1363; DOI: 10.3390/w16101363

Article: Spatiotemporal Variations in Snow Cover on the Tibetan Plateau from 2003 to 2020

Chaoxu Pu, Shuaibo Zhou, Peijun Sun, Yunchuan Luo, Siyi Li and Zhangli Sun

Water 2024, 16(10), 1364; DOI: 10.3390/w16101364

Article: Repeatability of Hydroacoustic Results versus Uncertainty in Assessing Changes in Ecological Status Based on Fish: A Case Study of Lake Widryńskie (Poland)

Andrej Hutorowicz

Water 2024, 16(10), 1368; DOI: 10.3390/w16101368

Article: The Effects of Climate Change on Streamflow, Nitrogen Loads, and Crop Yields in the Gordes Dam Basin, Turkey

Ayfer Özdemir, Martin Volk, Michael Strauch and Felix Witing

Water 2024, 16(10), 1371; DOI: 10.3390/w16101371

Article: Enhancing Soil Moisture Forecasting Accuracy with REDF-LSTM: Integrating Residual En-Decoding and Feature Attention Mechanisms

Xiaoning Li, Ziyin Zhang, Qingliang Li and Jinlong Zhu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1376; DOI: 10.3390/w16101376

Article: Numerical Simulation Analysis of the Correlation between Hydrodynamic Noise of Hydraulic Turbines and Defects in Runner Blades

Yuchen Liu, Fengrong Yu, Jing Qian, Hongjiang Pan and Ruihong Xu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1380; DOI: 10.3390/w16101380

Article: Experimental Study on the Clogging Performance of Waste Slag

Shibo Li, Jinduo Chen, Jianquan Ma, Hao Li, Hao Guo, Yongqiang Qiu, Fuli Han and Yashu Ji

Water 2024, 16(10), 1390; DOI: 10.3390/w16101390

Article: Ecological Response of Enzyme Activities in Watershed Sediments to the Reintroduction of Antibiotics

Yue Lu, Yongshan Chen, Jinghua Xu, Ying Feng and Jinping Jiang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1393; DOI: 10.3390/w16101393

Article: Water Point and Non-Point Nitrogen Pollution Due to Land-Use Change and Nitrate Deposition in China from 2000 to 2020

Xiaoning Zhao, Jiawei Shi, Lihua Xue, Wenwen Li, Kazem Zamanian, Jiangang Han and Shuang Chen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1396; DOI: 10.3390/w16101396

Article: Study on Permeability Evolution Law of Rock Mass under Mining Stress

Pengpeng Zhang, Xuan Ji, Yanheng Li, Mingjing Xu, Bin Yao and Chenliang Zhang

Water 2024, 16(10), 1409; DOI: 10.3390/w16101409

Article: Enhancing Oil–Water Flow Prediction in Heterogeneous Porous Media Using Machine Learning

Gaocheng Feng, Kai Zhang, Huan Wan, Weiying Yao, Yuande Zuo, Jingqi Lin, Piyang Liu, Liming Zhang, Yongfei Yang, Jun Yao, Ang Li and Chen Liu

Water 2024, 16(10), 1411; DOI: 10.3390/w16101411

Article: Slope Gradient Effects on Sediment Yield of Different Land Cover and Soil Types

Yu War Nang, Shin-ichi Onodera, Kunyang Wang, Yuta Shimizu and Mitsuyo Saito

Water 2024, 16(10), 1419; DOI: 10.3390/w16101419

Article: Spatiotemporal Variation, Meteorological Driving Factors, and Statistical Models Study of Lake Surface Area in the Yellow River Basin

Li Tang and Xiaohui Sun

Water 2024, 16(10), 1424; DOI: 10.3390/w16101424

Article: Performance Evaluation of a National Seven-Day Ensemble Streamflow Forecast Service for Australia

Mohammed Abdul Bari, Mohammad Mahadi Hasan, Gnanathikkam Emmanual Amirthanathan, Hapu Arachchige Prasantha Hapuarachchi, Aynul Kabir, Alex Daniel Cornish, Patrick Sunter and Paul Martinus Feikema

Water 2024, 16(10), 1438; DOI: 10.3390/w16101438

Article: Assessment of Rainfall and Temperature Trends in the Yellow River Basin, China from 2023 to 2100

Hui Li, Hongxu Mu, Shengqi Jian and Xinan Li

Water 2024, 16(10), 1441; DOI: 10.3390/w16101441

Article: Artificial Floating Islands for the Removal of Nutrients and Improvement of the Quality of Urban Wastewater

Luis Alfredo Hernández-Vásquez, Claudia Romo-Gómez, Alejandro Alvarado-Lassman, Francisco Prieto-García, Cesar Camacho-López and Otilio Arturo Acevedo-Sandoval

Water 2024, 16(10), 1443; DOI: 10.3390/w16101443

Article: Systemic Risk Analysis of Safety, Progress, and Investment in the Construction of a Water Transfer Project and the Importance of Common Cause Failure

Shan He, Hui Wang, Jiaming Zhang, Jiayi Fan, Yunlong Zheng, Jijun Xu, Weishuai Cheng, Mingzhi Yang and Chenzhu Shen

Water 2024, 16(10), 1454; DOI: 10.3390/w16101454

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Ahmad Abu Arra and Eyüp Şişman

Water 2024, 16(10), 1451; DOI: 10.3390/w16101451

 

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"Tell my soldiers what they really fight for, and the ranks would be empty in the morning." - Frederick the Great

It's Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 9 (May-1 2024) 122 Articles

Water, Volume 16, Issue 9 (May-1 2024) 122 Articles

 

Cover Story

Article: A Proposal for Sediment Control Countermeasures in Non-Flowing Mountain Streams

Norio Harada, Yoshifumi Satofuka and Takahisa Mizuyama

Water 2024, 16(9), 1197; DOI: 10.3390/w16091197

 

Featured Paper

Article: Definition of Exergetic Efficiency in the Main and Emerging Thermal Desalination Technologies: A Proposal

Nenna Arakcheeva El Kori, Ana M. Blanco-Marigorta and Noemi Melián Martel

Water 2024, 16(9), 1254; DOI: 10.3390/w16091254

Water and One Health

Article: Direct-Injection UHPLC-MS/MS Method for Simultaneous Determination of 78 Illegal Drugs and Psychoactive Substances in Domestic Wastewater

Kan Li, Yiling Hu, Yuke Jiang, Xing Han, Xin Liu and Mingluo Du

Water 2024, 16(9), 1315; DOI: 10.3390/w16091315

Systematic Review: Precision and Accuracy Limits of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology—Lessons Learned from SARS-CoV-2: A Scoping Review

Juris Laicans, Brigita Dejus, Sandis Dejus and Talis Juhna

Water 2024, 16(9), 1220; DOI: 10.3390/w16091220

Water-Energy Nexus

Article: Prevention of Water Seepage Impact on the Soluble Rocks Using Colloidal Silica

Aram Aziz, Abbas Soroush, Seyed Mohammad Fattahi, Reza Imam and Mehrdad Ghahremani

Water 2024, 16(9), 1211; DOI: 10.3390/w16091211

Article: HYPOSO Map Viewer: A Web-Based Atlas of Small-Scale Hydropower for Selected African and Latin American Countries

Petras Punys, Linas Jurevičius and Andrius Balčiūnas

Water 2024, 16(9), 1276; DOI: 10.3390/w16091276

New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences

Article: Determination of Critical Damage Size of Inclined Waterproof Coal Pillar under Asymmetric Load

Xingping Lai, Xiaoqian Yuchi, Helong Gu, Pengfei Shan and Wenhua Yang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1233; DOI: 10.3390/w16091233

Hydrogeology

Article: Spatio-Temporal Prediction of Three-Dimensional Stability of Highway Shallow Landslide in Southeast Tibet Based on TRIGRS and Scoops3D Coupling Model

Jiarui Mao, Xiumin Ma, Haojie Wang, Liyun Jia, Yao Sun, Bin Zhang and Wenhui Zhang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1207; DOI: 10.3390/w16091207

Article: Geochemical Surveys of Ground and Surface Waters in the Abandoned Hg-Mine of Abbadia San Salvatore (Central Italy): A Preparatory Investigation before Remediation

Federica Meloni, Giordano Montegrossi, Jacopo Cabassi, Francesco Bianchi, Barbara Nisi, Daniele Rappuoli and Orlando Vaselli

Water 2024, 16(9), 1210; DOI: 10.3390/w16091210

Article: Analysis of Self-Rescue Possibilities for Pedestrians in the Aftermath of Destabilization during a Flood Event

Xin Guo, Wenhai Wang, Xing Fang, Yongwei Gong, Junqi Li, Mengying Wang and Xiaojing Li

Water 2024, 16(9), 1218; DOI: 10.3390/w16091218

Article: Identification of Trends in Dam Monitoring Data Series Based on Machine Learning and Individual Conditional Expectation Curves

Miguel Á. Fernández-Centeno, Patricia Alocén and Miguel Á. Toledo

Water 2024, 16(9), 1239; DOI: 10.3390/w16091239

Article: Groundwater Chemical Trends Analyses in the Piedmont Po Plain (NW Italy): Comparison with Groundwater Level Variations (2000–2020)

Daniele Cocca, Manuela Lasagna and Domenico Antonio De Luca

Water 2024, 16(9), 1240; DOI: 10.3390/w16091240

Article: Characterization of a Contaminated Site Using Hydro-Geophysical Methods: From Large-Scale ERT Surface Investigations to Detailed ERT and GPR Cross-Hole Monitoring

Mirko Pavoni, Jacopo Boaga, Luca Peruzzo, Ilaria Barone, Benjamin Mary and Giorgio Cassiani

Water 2024, 16(9), 1280; DOI: 10.3390/w16091280

Article: Daily Streamflow Forecasting Using Networks of Real-Time Monitoring Stations and Hybrid Machine Learning Methods

Yue Zhang, Zimo Zhou, Ying Deng, Daiwei Pan, Jesse Van Griensven Thé, Simon X. Yang and Bahram Gharabaghi

Water 2024, 16(9), 1284; DOI: 10.3390/w16091284

Article: Applicability of Single-Borehole Dilution Tests in Aquifers with Vertical Flow

Maria L. Calvache, Manuel López-Chicano, Angela M. Blanco-Coronas, Beatriz de la Torre and Carlos Duque

Water 2024, 16(9), 1305; DOI: 10.3390/w16091305

Article: From Recharge to Cave to Spring: Transmission of a Flood Pulse through a Complex Karst Conduit Network, Castleton, Derbyshire (UK)

John Gunn and Chris Bradley

Water 2024, 16(9), 1306; DOI: 10.3390/w16091306

Soil and Water

Article: Determination of Heavy Metal Sources in an Agricultural Catchment (Poland) Using the Fingerprinting Method

Damian Bojanowski

Water 2024, 16(9), 1209; DOI: 10.3390/w16091209

Article: Novel Oxidation Strategies for the In Situ Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents from Groundwater—A Bench-Scale Study

Alicia Cano-López, Lidia Fernandez-Rojo, Leónidas Pérez-Estrada, Sònia Jou-Claus, Marta Batriu, Carme Bosch, Xavier Martínez-Lladó, Joana Baeta Trias, Ricard Mora Vilamaña, Mònica Escolà Casas and Víctor Matamoros

Water 2024, 16(9), 1241; DOI: 10.3390/w16091241

Water and Climate Change

Article: Precipitation Changes on the Northern Slope of the Kunlun Mountains in the Past 42 Years

Zhenhua Xia, Yaning Chen, Xueqi Zhang, Zhi Li, Gonghuan Fang, Chengang Zhu, Yupeng Li, Jinglong Li, Qianqian Xia and Qixiang Liang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1203; DOI: 10.3390/w16091203

Article: Impacts of Extreme Climate on the Water Resource System in Sichuan Province

Fang Ma and Zhijun Li

Water 2024, 16(9), 1217; DOI: 10.3390/w16091217

Article: Combining Crop and Water Decisions to Manage Groundwater Overdraft over Decadal and Longer Timescales

Yiqing Yao, Jay R. Lund and Josué Medellín-Azuara

Water 2024, 16(9), 1223; DOI: 10.3390/w16091223

Article: Study on Properties of Micro-Nano Magnetic Composite Prepared by Mechanochemical Method of NdFeB Secondary Waste and Removal of As (V) from Mine Water

Xiujuan Feng and Yicheng Rao

Water 2024, 16(9), 1234; DOI: 10.3390/w16091234

Article: Precipitation Modeling Based on Spatio-Temporal Variation in Lake Urmia Basin Using Machine Learning Methods

Sajjad Arbabi, Mohammad Taghi Sattari, Nasrin Fathollahzadeh Attar, Adam Milewski and Mohamad Sakizadeh

Water 2024, 16(9), 1246; DOI: 10.3390/w16091246

Article: Vine Copula-Based Multivariate Distribution of Rainfall Intensity, Wind Speed, and Wind Direction for Optimizing Qatari Meteorological Stations

Hassan Qasem, Niels-Erik Joergensen, Ataur Rahman, Husam Abdullah Samman, Sharouq Al Malki and Abdulrahman Saleh Al Ansari

Water 2024, 16(9), 1257; DOI: 10.3390/w16091257

 

Ecohydrology

Article: A Distributed Catchment—Scale Evaluation of the Potential of Soil and Water Conservation Interventions to Reduce Storm Flow and Soil Loss

Tilashwork C. Alemie, Wouter Buytaert, Seifu A. Tilahun and Tammo S. Steenhuis

Water 2024, 16(9), 1225; DOI: 10.3390/w16091225

Article: Monitoring the Landscape Pattern Dynamics and Driving Forces in Dongting Lake Wetland in China Based on Landsat Images

Mengshen Guo, Nianqing Zhou, Yi Cai, Wengang Zhao, Shuaishuai Lu and Kehao Liu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1273; DOI: 10.3390/w16091273

Hydrology

Article: Rainfall-Runoff Parameter Estimation from Ungauged Flat Afforested Catchments Using the NRCS-CN Method

Szymon Kobus

Water 2024, 16(9), 1247; DOI: 10.3390/w16091247

Article: Forecasting the River Water Discharge by Artificial Intelligence Methods

Alina Bărbulescu and Liu Zhen

Water 2024, 16(9), 1248; DOI: 10.3390/w16091248

Article: Investigating the Impact of Large Lakes on Local Precipitation: Case Study of Lake Urmia, Iran

Hossein Mousavi, Amir Hossein Dehghanipour, Carla S.S. Ferreira and Zahra Kalantari

Water 2024, 16(9), 1250; DOI: 10.3390/w16091250

Article: Long-Term Changes in Water and Ion Flows of the Pechora River, the Longest Full-Water European Arctic River

Aleksandr G. Georgiadi, Alesya O. Danilenko and Pavel Y. Groisman

Water 2024, 16(9), 1264; DOI: 10.3390/w16091264

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: Current Status of and Suggestions on Sewage Treatment Fees in China

Guoming Zeng, Zilong Ma, Yu He, Lin Chen, Da Sun and Xiaoling Lei

Water 2024, 16(9), 1219; DOI: 10.3390/w16091219

Review: Harnessing the Potential of Extracellular Polymeric Substances in Enhancing ANAMMOX Processes: Mechanisms, Strategies, and Perspectives

Lijing Fan, Cancan Jiang, Xu Wang, Yang Yang, Yawen Xie, Jiaqi Su, Hong Sun, Shengjun Xu and Xuliang Zhuang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1242; DOI: 10.3390/w16091242

Article: The Enhanced Adsorption Capacity of Ziziphus jujuba Stones Modified with Ortho-Phosphoric Acid for Organic Dye Removal: A Gaussian Process Regression Approach

Abderraouf Guediri, Abdallah Bouguettoucha, Hichem Tahraoui, Derradji Chebli, Jie Zhang, Abdeltif Amrane, Lotfi Khezami and Amin Aymen Assadi

Water 2024, 16(9), 1208; DOI: 10.3390/w16091208

Article: An Assessment of the Suitability of Contrasting Biosolids for Raising Indigenous Plants in Nurseries

Claudia Garcés-Hernández, Brett Robinson, Claudio Bravo-Linares, Hamish Lowe, Seinalyn Villanueva, Jennifer Prosser and María-Jesús Gutiérrez-Ginés

Water 2024, 16(9), 1226; DOI: 10.3390/w16091226

Article: The Treatment of Antibiotic Excess Sludge via Catalytic Wet Oxidation with Cu-Ce/γ-Al₂O₃ and the Production of a Carbon Source

Shangye Chu, Hai Lin and Xu Zeng

Water 2024, 16(9), 1249; DOI: 10.3390/w16091249

Article: Burst Diagnosis Multi-Stage Model for Water Distribution Networks Based on Deep Learning Algorithms

Sen Peng, Yuxin Wang, Xu Fang and Qing Wu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1258; DOI: 10.3390/w16091258

Article: Preparation of CeO₂ Supported on Graphite Catalyst and Its Catalytic Performance for Diethyl Phthalate Degradation during Ozonation

Xin-Yi Tao, Yu-Hong Cui and Zheng-Qian Liu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1274; DOI: 10.3390/w16091274

Article: Denitrification Performance and Microbiological Mechanisms Using Polyglycolic Acid as a Carbon Source

Zhichao Wang, Chenxi Li, Wenhuan Yang, Yuxia Wei and Weiping Li

Water 2024, 16(9), 1277; DOI: 10.3390/w16091277

 

Article: Optimizing the Extraction of Sugars from Sewage Sludge Using Ultrasound Combined with Thermal–Alkali

Yujie Fan, Qunshuai Li, Frederico Gomes Fonseca, Jianyang Song and Miao Gong

Water 2024, 16(9), 1289; DOI: 10.3390/w16091289

Article: Recovery of Elemental Arsenic from Acidic As-Containing Wastewater by a Hypophosphite Reduction Process

Qian Li, Shiyu Zhao, Yan Zhang, Yong Li, Xiaoliang Liu and Yongbin Yang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1301; DOI: 10.3390/w16091301

Article: Treatment of Pickle Wastewater under Varying Salinity Conditions within the Sequencing Batch Biofilm Reactor System

Nuonan Shen, Hongyun Guo, Tingting Yao, Li Xu, Youxian Gao and Ping Yang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1312; DOI: 10.3390/w16091312

Article: Cleansing Tannery Effluent with Pleurotus opuntiae: A Green Solution for Environmental Restoration and Toxicity Evaluation

Priyanka Yadav, Vartika Mishra, Tejmani Kumar, Umesh Kumar Singh, Emanuel Vamanu and Mohan Prasad Singh

Water 2024, 16(9), 1313; DOI: 10.3390/w16091313

Article: Nejayote and Food Waste Leachate as a Medium for Scenedesmus acutus and Haematococcus pluvialis Production: A Mixture Experimental Design

Elizabeth Garza-Valverde, Celestino García-Gómez, Juan Nápoles-Armenta, Luis Samaniego-Moreno, Edgardo Martínez-Orozco and Celia De La Mora-Orozco

Water 2024, 16(9), 1314; DOI: 10.3390/w16091314

Communication: Modeling of Biofoam Destabilization by Biodefoamers in Poultry Slaughterhouse Wastewater Treatment Activated Sludge

Cynthia Dlangamandla, Ncumisa Mpongwana, Seteno K. O. Ntwampe, Moses Basitere and Boredi S. Chidi

Water 2024, 16(9), 1293; DOI: 10.3390/w16091293

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Article: Determinants of Farmers’ Acceptance of the Volumetric Pricing Policy for Irrigation Water: An Empirical Study from China

Xuan Fang and Ying Zhu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1243; DOI: 10.3390/w16091243

Article: Multi-Dimensional Collaborative Optimization Model for Agricultural Water Rights Based on Water Price Reform under Changing Environment

Linlin Song, Hongshu Wang and Liang Ding

Water 2024, 16(9), 1262; DOI: 10.3390/w16091262

Article: Developing a Bankruptcy Theory to Resolve Stakeholders’ Conflict over Optimal Water Allocation: The Case of Hirmand Catchment

Ali Sardar Shahraki, Vijay P. Singh and Ommolbanin Bazrafshan

Water 2024, 16(9), 1303; DOI: 10.3390/w16091303

Water Quality and Contamination

Article: Mercury Bioconcentration and Translocation in Rooted Macrophytes (Paspalum repens Berg.) from Floodplain Lakes in the Araguaia River Watershed, Brazilian Savanna

Lucas Cabrera Monteiro, Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira, José Vicente Elias Bernardi, Ygor Oliveira Sarmento Rodrigues, Lígia Pereira Borges de Mesquita, João Pedro Rudrigues de Souza, Guilherme Sena, Iuri Aparecida da Silva Oliveira, Cássio da Silva Cabral, José Francisco Gonçalves Júnior, Jurandir Rodrigues de Souza and Wanderley Rodrigues Bastos

Water 2024, 16(9), 1199; DOI: 10.3390/w16091199

Article: Relationship of the “Dequada” Phenomenon with Mercury Methylation in Pantanal, Brazil

Glaucia A. Nunes, Dayana D. Ramos, Juliane C. Forti, Diovany D. Ramos, Lincoln C. S. Oliveira, David S. S. Junior, Gabriel E. Santo and Felipe A. Santos

Water 2024, 16(9), 1204; DOI: 10.3390/w16091204

Article: Safety of Tap Water in Terms of Changes in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Stability

Andżelika Domoń, Beata Kowalska, Dorota Papciak, Edyta Wojtaś and Iwona Kamińska

Water 2024, 16(9), 1221; DOI: 10.3390/w16091221

Article: Simultaneous Synthesis of Single- and Multiple-Contaminant Water Networks Using LINGO and Excel Software

Abeer M. Shoaib, Amr A. Atawia, Mohamed H. Hassanean, Abdelrahman G. Gadallah and Ahmed A. Bhran

Water 2024, 16(9), 1244; DOI: 10.3390/w16091244

Article: Multi-Objective Design of a Horizontal Flow Subsurface Wetland

Jhonatan Mendez-Valencia, Carlos Sánchez-López and Eneida Reyes-Pérez

Water 2024, 16(9), 1253; DOI: 10.3390/w16091253

Article: Changes in Surface Water Quality of the El Salvador River in La Joya de los Sachas, Ecuadorian Amazon Region

Tannia Vargas-Tierras, Mirian Jiménez-Gutiérrez, Sandra Pastrano, Gino Chávez, Vanessa Morales-León, María Morales-León, Fernando Paredes and Wilson Vásquez-Castillo

Water 2024, 16(9), 1259; DOI: 10.3390/w16091259

Article: Assessment of Groundwater Quality Using the Pollution Index of Groundwater (PIG), Nitrate Pollution Index (NPI), Water Quality Index (WQI), Multivariate Statistical Analysis (MSA), and GIS Approaches: A Case Study of the Mnasra Region, Gharb Plain, Morocco

Hatim Sanad, Latifa Mouhir, Abdelmjid Zouahri, Rachid Moussadek, Hamza El Azhari, Hasna Yachou, Ahmed Ghanimi, Majda Oueld Lhaj and Houria Dakak

Water 2024, 16(9), 1263; DOI: 10.3390/w16091263

Article: Analysis of the Evolution of Water Quality in Tanks According to the Connections and Operation Mode: Application to the Most Suitable Design

Marta Hervás, Fernando Martínez-Alzamora and Pilar Conejos

Water 2024, 16(9), 1265; DOI: 10.3390/w16091265

Article: Unraveling the Coupled Dynamics between DOM Transformation and Arsenic Mobilization in Aquifer Systems during Microbial Sulfate Reduction: Evidence from Sediment Incubation Experiment

Xingguo Du, Hui Li, Yue Jiang, Jianfei Yuan and Tianliang Zheng

Water 2024, 16(9), 1266; DOI: 10.3390/w16091266

Article: Human-Altered Water and Carbon Cycles in the Lake Yangzong Basin since the Yuan Dynasty

Huayong Li, Yuxue Jing, Hucai Zhang, Xuanxuan Shang, Lizeng Duan, Huayu Li, Donglin Li and Zhuohan Li

Water 2024, 16(9), 1271; DOI: 10.3390/w16091271

Article: Comparison between Hyperspectral and Multispectral Retrievals of Suspended Sediment Concentration in Rivers

Sung Hyun Jung, Siyoon Kwon, Il Won Seo and Jun Song Kim

Water 2024, 16(9), 1275; DOI: 10.3390/w16091275

Article: Prediction of Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient Based on Informer: A Case Study of Hangzhou Bay and Beibu Gulf

Rongyang Cai, Miao Hu, Xiulin Geng, Mohammed K. Ibrahim and Chunhui Wang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1279; DOI: 10.3390/w16091279

Article: Effective Degradation of 1,4-Dioxane by UV-Activated Persulfate: Mechanisms, Parameters and Environmental Impacts

Xiuneng Zhu, Jie Qiu, Yexing Wang, Yulin Tang and Yongji Zhang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1281; DOI: 10.3390/w16091281

Article: Evaluating the Water Quality of the Keddara Dam (Algeria) Using Water Quality Indices

Tosin Sarah Fashagba, Madani Bessedik, Nadia Badr ElSayed, Chérifa Abdelbaki and Navneet Kumar

Water 2024, 16(9), 1291; DOI: 10.3390/w16091291

Article: Dual Effect of Microplastics and Cadmium on Stream Litter Decomposition and Invertebrate Feeding Behavior

Hualong He, Sulin Cai, Siyuan Chen, Qiang Li, Yunchao Luo, Xiaoyi Zeng, Rumeng Ye, Pengwei Wan and Xingjun Tian

Water 2024, 16(9), 1295; DOI: 10.3390/w16091295

Article: Comprehensive Profiling of Klebsiella in Surface Waters from Northern Portugal: Understanding Patterns in Prevalence, Antibiotic Resistance, and Biofilm Formation

Sara Araújo, Vanessa Silva, Maria de Lurdes Enes Dapkevicius, José Eduardo Pereira, Ângela Martins, Gilberto Igrejas and Patricia Poeta

Water 2024, 16(9), 1297; DOI: 10.3390/w16091297

Article: A Combination of UV and Disinfectant for Inactivating Viable but Nonculturable State Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Efficiency and Mechanisms

Jinfeng Zhao, Huichao Zhu, Chen Tao, Zhiquan Wang, Ning Deng and Xin Huang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1302; DOI: 10.3390/w16091302

Urban Water Management

Article: Methods for Constructing a Refined Early-Warning Model for Rainstorm-Induced Waterlogging in Historic and Cultural Districts

Jing Wu, Junqi Li, Xiufang Wang, Lei Xu, Yuanqing Li, Jing Li, Yao Zhang and Tianchen Xie

Water 2024, 16(9), 1290; DOI: 10.3390/w16091290

Article: Catchment-Scale Hydrologic Effectiveness of Residential Rain Gardens: A Case Study in Columbia, Maryland, USA

Benjamin J. Daniels and Jon Alan Yeakley

Water 2024, 16(9), 1304; DOI: 10.3390/w16091304

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Review: Overbank Flow, Sediment Transport, and Channel Morphology in the Lower Yellow River: A Review

Shasha Han, Lianjun Zhao, Ao Chang, Baichuan Liu, Jingwen Wang and Jie Li

Water 2024, 16(9), 1213; DOI: 10.3390/w16091213

Article: Geophysical Characterization and Seepage Detection of the Chimney Rock Dam Embankment Near Salina, Oklahoma

Peter Adetokunbo, Ahmed Ismail, Farag Mewafy and Oluseun Sanuade

Water 2024, 16(9), 1224; DOI: 10.3390/w16091224

Article: Greedy Weighted Stacking of Machine Learning Models for Optimizing Dam Deformation Prediction

Patricia Alocén, Miguel Á. Fernández-Centeno and Miguel Á. Toledo

Water 2024, 16(9), 1235; DOI: 10.3390/w16091235

Article: Flexural-Gravity Waves in a Channel with a Compressed Ice Cover

Evgeniy Batyaev and Tatiana Khabakhpasheva

Water 2024, 16(9), 1255; DOI: 10.3390/w16091255

Article: Gas Fracturing Simulation of Shale-Gas Reservoirs Considering Damage Effects and Fluid–Solid Coupling

Enze Qi, Fei Xiong, Yun Zhang, Linchao Wang, Yi Xue and Yingpeng Fu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1278; DOI: 10.3390/w16091278

Article: Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Response Analysis of Inlet Distortion on a Waterjet Pump

Puyu Cao, Rui Yue, Jinfeng Zhang, Xinrui Liu, Gang Wu and Rui Zhu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1282; DOI: 10.3390/w16091282

Article: A Case Study and Numerical Modeling of Post-Wildfire Debris Flows in Montecito, California

Diwakar K. C., Mohammad Wasif Naqvi and Liangbo Hu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1285; DOI: 10.3390/w16091285

Article: A Deformation Analysis Method for Sluice Structure Based on Panel Data

Zekai Ma, Benxing Lou, Zhenzhong Shen, Fuheng Ma, Xiang Luo, Wei Ye, Xing Li and Dongze Li

Water 2024, 16(9), 1287; DOI: 10.3390/w16091287

Article: Analysis of Unsteady Internal Flow and Its Induced Structural Response in a Circulating Water Pump

Jinqi Lu, Xueliang Yao, Haixia Zheng, Xiaowei Yan, Houlin Liu and Tianxin Wu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1294; DOI: 10.3390/w16091294

Article: Numerical Analysis of the Stress Shadow Effects in Multistage Hydrofracturing Considering Natural Fracture and Leak-Off Effect

Jinxin Song, Qing Qiao, Chao Chen, Jiangtao Zheng and Yongliang Wang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1308; DOI: 10.3390/w16091308

Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems

Review: Recent Issues and Challenges in the Study of Inland Waters

Ryszard Staniszewski, Beata Messyasz, Piotr Dąbrowski, Pawel Burdziakowski and Marcin Spychała

Water 2024, 16(9), 1216; DOI: 10.3390/w16091216

Article: Wetland Creation and Reforestation of Legacy Surface Mines in the Central Appalachian Region (USA): A Potential Climate-Adaptation Approach for Pond-Breeding Amphibians?

Lauren Sherman, Christopher D. Barton, Jacquelyn C. Guzy, Rebecca N. Davenport, John J. Cox, Jeffery L. Larkin, Todd Fearer, Jillian C. Newman and Steven J. Price

Water 2024, 16(9), 1202; DOI: 10.3390/w16091202

Article: The Diversity of Freshwater Stygobiotic Crustaceans in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania Provides New Evidence for the Existence of an Ancient Glacial Refugium in the North Caucasus Region

Ivan N. Marin and Dmitry M. Palatov

Water 2024, 16(9), 1212; DOI: 10.3390/w16091212

Article: Using the Heavy Metal and Biotic Indices to Assess Ecological Quality in the Central Area of the East Sea, South Korea

Jian Liang, Chae-Woo Ma and Dae-Sun Son

Water 2024, 16(9), 1230; DOI: 10.3390/w16091230

Article: Assessment of Leachate Generated by Sargassum spp. in the Mexican Caribe: Part 1 Spatial Variations

Rosa Maria Leal-Bautista, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Garcia, Gilberto Acosta-González, Rubi Chablé-Villacis, Raul Tapia-Tussell, Jose Epigmenio Bautista-García, Edgar Olguìn-Maciel, Liliana Alzate-Gaviria and Gloria González-López

Water 2024, 16(9), 1251; DOI: 10.3390/w16091251

Article: Cladocera and Geochemical Variables from Core Sediments Show Different Conditions of Hungarian Lakes

István Gyulai, János Korponai, Sheila Mumbi A. Wamugi, Jázmin Jakab, Umar Abba Kawu, Andor G. Soltész, Tamás Karches and Uyanga Tumurtogoo

Water 2024, 16(9), 1310; DOI: 10.3390/w16091310

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Article: Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Land Subsidence and Driving Factors Analysis in Shenzhen

Shuanglong Wang, Guoyang Wang, Min Huang, Jun Song, Xiaoyu Yang, Tingyu Zhang, Wenyu Ji, Shuai Zhang, Weili Wu, Chengwen Wei and Jian Xiao

Water 2024, 16(9), 1200; DOI: 10.3390/w16091200

Article: Climate Variability, Coastal Livelihoods, and the Influence of Ocean Change on Fish Catch in the Coastal Savannah Zone of Ghana

Johnson Ankrah, Ana Monteiro and Helena Madureira

Water 2024, 16(9), 1201; DOI: 10.3390/w16091201

Article: The Use of Boosted Regression Trees to Predict the Occurrence and Quantity of Staphylococcus aureus in Recreational Marine Waterways

Bridgette F. Froeschke, Michelle Roux-Osovitz, Margaret L. Baker, Ella G. Hampson, Stella L. Nau and Ashley Thomas

Water 2024, 16(9), 1283; DOI: 10.3390/w16091283

Article: Numerical Study on the Formation Mechanism of Plume Bulge in the Pearl River Estuary under the Influence of River Discharge

Chenyu Zhao, Nan Wang, Yang Ding, Dehai Song, Junmin Li, Mengqi Li, Lingling Zhou, Hang Yu, Yanyu Chen and Xianwen Bao

Water 2024, 16(9), 1296; DOI: 10.3390/w16091296

Water Erosion and Sediment Transport

Article: Determining the Relevance of Commonly Used Hydraulic Parameters for Representing the Water Erosive Force in Rock Mass Erosion within Dam Spillways

Aboubacar Sidiki Koulibaly, Ali Saeidi, Alain Rouleau and Marco Quirion

Water 2024, 16(9), 1261; DOI: 10.3390/w16091261

Water Use and Scarcity

Article: A Framework for Assessing Food Baskets Based on Water and Carbon Footprints

Ali Mohammadi, Saman Javadi, Hossein Yousefi, Hamed Pouraram and Timothy O. Randhir

Water 2024, 16(9), 1196; DOI: 10.3390/w16091196

Article: Water Value Ambivalence: A Qualitative Exploration of the Multitude of Water Values

Lien Dieleman, Robbe Geerts, Frédéric Vandermoere and Stijn Brouwer

Water 2024, 16(9), 1236; DOI: 10.3390/w16091236

Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture

Article: Challenges When Assessing Water-Related Environmental Impacts of Livestock Farming: A Case Study of a Cow Milk Production System in Catalonia

Marta Ruiz-Colmenero, Ariadna Bàllega, Miquel Andón, Marta Terré, Maria Devant, Assumpció Antón, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Anna Targa and Montserrat Núñez

Water 2024, 16(9), 1299; DOI: 10.3390/w16091299

General

Review: Microplastics in Groundwater: Pathways, Occurrence, and Monitoring Challenges

Elvira Colmenarejo Calero, Manca Kovač Viršek and Nina Mali

Water 2024, 16(9), 1228; DOI: 10.3390/w16091228

Article: Impacts on Soil and Cowpea Plants Fertigated with Sanitary Sewage through Subsurface Drip Irrigation

Edcássio Dias Araújo, Lucas Borges Ferreira, Job Teixeira de Oliveira, Alisson Carraro Borges and Fernando França da Cunha

Water 2024, 16(9), 1194; DOI: 10.3390/w16091194

Article: Multiscale Analysis of Water Area, Level and Flow and Their Relationships for a Large Lake Connected to Rivers: A Case Study of Dongting Lake, China

Shan Xu, Liang Zhai, Bin Zou and Huiyong Sang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1198; DOI: 10.3390/w16091198

Article: Windows into the Recent Past: Simple Biotic Indices to Assess Hydrological Stability in Small, Isolated Ponds

Paweł Koperski

Water 2024, 16(9), 1206; DOI: 10.3390/w16091206

Article: Impact of Meadow Degradations on the Probabilistic Distribution Patterns of Physical and Mechanical Indices of Rooted Soil in the Upper Regions of the Yellow River, China

Jiang-Tao Fu, Xia-Song Hu, Xi-Lai Li, Ji-Mei Zhao, Guang-Yan Xing and Chang-Yi Liu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1205; DOI: 10.3390/w16091205

Article: The Application of Sand Transport with Cohesive Admixtures Model for Predicting Flushing Flows in Channels

Leszek M. Kaczmarek, Jerzy Zawisza, Iwona Radosz, Magdalena Pietrzak and Jarosław Biegowski

Water 2024, 16(9), 1214; DOI: 10.3390/w16091214

Article: The Hydrogeochemistry of and Earthquake-Related Chemical Variations in the Springs along the Eastern Kunlun Fault Zone, China

Chao Lu, Xiaocheng Zhou, Jiyi Jiang, Jingchao Li, Jing Li, Jing Wu, Xiaoyi Zhu, Jiang Li, Gaoyuan Xing and Shihan Cui

Water 2024, 16(9), 1215; DOI: 10.3390/w16091215

Article: Fractal Characteristics of Water Outflows on the Soil Surface after a Pipe Failure

Małgorzata Iwanek and Paweł Suchorab

Water 2024, 16(9), 1222; DOI: 10.3390/w16091222

Article: Water-Level Prediction Analysis for the Three Gorges Reservoir Area Based on a Hybrid Model of LSTM and Its Variants

Haoran Li, Lili Zhang, Yaowen Zhang, Yunsheng Yao, Renlong Wang and Yiming Dai

Water 2024, 16(9), 1227; DOI: 10.3390/w16091227

Article: Effects of Bio-Organic Fertilizers Substitution on Gaseous Nitrogen Losses in Rice Fields

Zhengdi Han, Huijing Hou, Xianzi Yao, Xiang Qian, Qin Tao and Mingyao Zhou

Water 2024, 16(9), 1229; DOI: 10.3390/w16091229

Article: The Influence of Arctic Conditions on the Formation of Algae and Cyanobacteria Diversity and on the Water Quality of Freshwater Habitats on Kotelny Island, Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve, Yakutia

Sophia Barinova and Viktor Gabyshev

Water 2024, 16(9), 1231; DOI: 10.3390/w16091231

Article: Parameter Optimization of Frazil Ice Evolution Model Based on NSGA-II Genetic Algorithm

Yunfei Chen, Jijian Lian, Xin Zhao and Deming Yang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1232; DOI: 10.3390/w16091232

Article: Photochlorination of Anthracene in Saline Ice under Simulated Solar Light

Yujie Li, Xuefeng Hu, Hao Xie, Beichuan Cai and Yaxing Bai

Water 2024, 16(9), 1237; DOI: 10.3390/w16091237

Article: A Novel Method for Anomaly Detection and Signal Calibration in Water Quality Monitoring of an Urban Water Supply System

Jincheng Liu, Di Wu, Hadi Mohammed and Razak Seidu

Water 2024, 16(9), 1238; DOI: 10.3390/w16091238

Article: Occurrence and Risk Assessment of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Surface Water of Hefei City, Southeast China

Yu Zhang, Chuanjun Jiang, Liangpu Zhang, Hua Cheng and Ning Wang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1245; DOI: 10.3390/w16091245

Article: Elevational Patterns of Forest Evapotranspiration and Its Sensitivity to Climatic Variation in Dryland Mountains

Hongyu Li, Xiaohuang Liu, Wenbo Zhang, Haoyang Zhu, Xiaofeng Zhao, Jiufen Liu, Xinping Luo, Ran Wang, Honghui Zhao and Chao Wang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1252; DOI: 10.3390/w16091252

Article: Effects of Three Antibiotics on Nitrogen-Cycling Bacteria in Sediment of Aquaculture Water

Zhu Li, Huan He, Jianhe Ding, Zhizhong Zhang, Yifei Leng, Mingjun Liao and Wen Xiong

Water 2024, 16(9), 1256; DOI: 10.3390/w16091256

Article: Analyzing the Seasonal Vertical Displacement Fluctuations Using the Global Navigation Satellite System and Hydrological Load: A Case Study of the Western Yunnan Region

Pengfei Xu, Tao Jiang, Wanqiu Li, Gong Xu, Chuanyin Zhang, Wei Wang, Kunjun Tian and Jiandi Feng

Water 2024, 16(9), 1260; DOI: 10.3390/w16091260

Article: Prediction of Inland Excess Water Inundations Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Balázs Kajári, Zalán Tobak, Norbert Túri, Csaba Bozán and Boudewijn Van Leeuwen

Water 2024, 16(9), 1267; DOI: 10.3390/w16091267

Article: Spatial Distribution and Seasonal Variation of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in an Urban River in Northeast China

Qingshan Xiao, Xin Wang, Chongxin Xu, Wei Chen, Qianchi Huang and Xin Wang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1268; DOI: 10.3390/w16091268

Article: Constituents of Coliform Species Contained in the Permeate of Microfiltration Membranes in Wastewater Treatment

Shuai Zhou, Taro Urase and Saki Goto

Water 2024, 16(9), 1269; DOI: 10.3390/w16091269

Article: Spatial and Temporal Distribution Characteristics and Potential Sources of Microplastic Pollution in China’s Freshwater Environments

Hualong He, Sulin Cai, Siyuan Chen, Qiang Li, Pengwei Wan, Rumeng Ye, Xiaoyi Zeng, Bei Yao, Yanli Ji, Tingting Cao, Yunchao Luo, Han Jiang, Run Liu, Qi Chen, You Fang, Lu Pang, Yunru Chen, Weihua He, Yueting Pan, Gaozhong Pu, Jiaqin Zeng and Xingjun Tian

Water 2024, 16(9), 1270; DOI: 10.3390/w16091270

Article: Sensitivity of Runoff to Climatic Factors and the Attribution of Runoff Variation in the Upper Shule River, North-West China

Ling Jia, Zuirong Niu, Rui Zhang and Yali Ma

Water 2024, 16(9), 1272; DOI: 10.3390/w16091272

Article: Flood Water Depth Prediction with Convolutional Temporal Attention Networks

Priyanka Chaudhary, João P. Leitão, Konrad Schindler and Jan Dirk Wegner

Water 2024, 16(9), 1286; DOI: 10.3390/w16091286

Article: Water Stable Isotopes in the Central Altai Mountainous Rivers as Indicator of Glacier Meltwater Fraction in Runoff

Dmitrii Bantcev, Valeriia Rasputina, Anaiit Ovsepian, Semyon Griga, Anna Kozachek, Kirill Tchikhatchev and Dmitrii Ganyushkin

Water 2024, 16(9), 1288; DOI: 10.3390/w16091288

Article: Mine Wastewater Effect on the Aquatic Diversity and the Ecological Status of the Watercourses in Southern Poland

Krzysztof Mitko, Piotr Dydo, Andrzej K. Milewski, Joanna Bok-Badura, Agata Jakóbik-Kolon, Tomasz Krawczyk, Anna Cieplok, Mariola Krodkiewska, Aneta Spyra, Grzegorz Gzyl, Anna Skalny, Beata Kończak, Maria Bałazińska, Paweł Łabaj, Anna Tetłak, Maria Kyriazi and Stavroula Klempetsani

Water 2024, 16(9), 1292; DOI: 10.3390/w16091292

Article: Films Floating on Water Surface: Coupled Redox Cycling of Iron Species (Fe(III)/Fe(II)) at Soil/Water and Water/Air Interfaces

Hong Zhang, Zac Rush, Zoe Penn, Kami Dunn, Sydney Asmus, Carolyn Cooke, Zach Cord, Shawna Coulter and Chance Morris

Water 2024, 16(9), 1298; DOI: 10.3390/w16091298

Article: Improving Irrigation Management of Cotton with Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Texas High Plains

Avay Risal, Haoyu Niu, Jose Luis Landivar-Scott, Murilo M. Maeda, Craig W. Bednarz, Juan Landivar-Bowles, Nick Duffield, Paxton Payton, Pankaj Pal, Robert J. Lascano, Timothy Goebel and Mahendra Bhandari

Water 2024, 16(9), 1300; DOI: 10.3390/w16091300

Article: Effects of Different Reclamation Years and Modes on Soil Moisture Transport Pathways and Permeability Characteristics in an Open-Pit Mining Area in Guangxi

Song Wang, Lei Gan, Yu Zhang, Zhibo Gao, Zhenhong Luo, Haojie Zhou, Hang Zhang, Hongxia Zhang and Taiqing Huang

Water 2024, 16(9), 1307; DOI: 10.3390/w16091307

Article: Advanced Uncertainty Quantification for Flood Inundation Modelling

Gordon Aitken, Lindsay Beevers and Mike A. Christie

Water 2024, 16(9), 1309; DOI: 10.3390/w16091309

Article: Assessing the Water Footprints (WFPs) of Agricultural Products across Arid Regions: Insights and Implications for Sustainable Farming

Saeed Sharafi, Mohammad Javad Nahvinia and Fatemeh Salehi

Water 2024, 16(9), 1311; DOI: 10.3390/w16091311

Retraction: RETRACTED: Masood et al. Exploring Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Geostatistical and Integrated Water Quality Indices Perspective. Water 2024, 16, 138

Muhammad Umer Masood, Muhammad Rashid, Saif Haider, Iram Naz, Chaitanya B. Pande, Salim Heddam, Fahad Alshehri, Ismail Elkhrachy, Amimul Ahsan and Saad Sh. Sammen

Water 2024, 16(9), 1195; DOI: 10.3390/w16091195

 

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