Water, Vol. 12, Pages 894: Emerald Growth: A New Framework Concept for Managing Ecological Quality and Ecosystem Services of Transitional Waters Water doi: 10.3390/w12030894 Authors: Davide Tagliapietra Ramūnas Povilanskas Artūras Razinkovas-Baziukas Julius Taminskas The aim of the present paper is to propose and elaborate on the concept of Emerald Growth as a new framework concept for managing ecological quality and ecosystem services of transitional waters. The research approach...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 888: Springing for Safe Water: Drinking Water Quality and Source Selection in Central Appalachian Communities Water doi: 10.3390/w12030888 Authors: Patton Krometis Sarver Issues surrounding water infrastructure, access, and quality are well documented in the Central Appalachian region of the United States. Even in cases where residents have in-home piped point-of-use (POU) water, some rely on alternative drinking water sources for daily needs—including...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 889: Experimental Evidence of the Influence of Recurves on Wave Loads at Vertical Seawalls Water doi: 10.3390/w12030889 Authors: Stagonas Ravindar Sriram Schimmels The role of recurves on top of seawalls in reducing overtopping has been previously shown but their influence in the distribution and magnitude of wave-induced pressures and forces on the seawall remains largely unexplored. This paper deals with the effects of different recurve geometries...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 887: Comparative Analysis of Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structure in Microwave Pretreated Thermophilic and Mesophilic Anaerobic Digesters Utilizing Mixed Sludge under Organic Overloading Water doi: 10.3390/w12030887 Authors: Kor-Bicakci Ubay-Cokgor Eskicioglu The effects of microwave (MW) pretreatment were investigated by six anaerobic digesters operated under thermophilic and mesophilic conditions at high organic loading rates (4.9–5.7...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 886: Effects of Changing Fertilization since the 1980s on Nitrogen Runoff and Leaching in Rice–Wheat Rotation Systems, Taihu Lake Basin Water doi: 10.3390/w12030886 Authors: Yaqin Diao Hengpeng Li Sanyuan Jiang Xinyan Li The nitrogen (N) loss associated with intensive agricultural activities is a significant cause of eutrophication and algal blooms in freshwater ecosystems. Taihu Lake has experienced serious surface water quality deterioration and eutrophication...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 885: Sustainable Water Resources Management in an Arid Area Using a Coupled Optimization-Simulation Modeling Water doi: 10.3390/w12030885 Authors: Siamak Farrokhzadeh Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared Gholamreza Azizian Ali Sardar Shahraki Maurits W. Ertsen Edo Abraham Severe water scarcity in recent years has magnified the economic, social, and environmental significance of water stress globally, making optimal planning in water resources necessary for...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 884: Flood Prediction and Uncertainty Estimation Using Deep Learning Water doi: 10.3390/w12030884 Authors: Vinayaka Gude Steven Corns Suzanna Long Floods are a complex phenomenon that are difficult to predict because of their non-linear and dynamic nature. Therefore, flood prediction has been a key research topic in the field of hydrology. Various researchers have approached this problem using different techniques ranging from physical models to image processing,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 883: What Triggers the Annual Cycle of Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp. in an Extreme Environmental Sulfide-Rich Spa? Water doi: 10.3390/w12030883 Authors: Andreas Reul Elena Martín-Clemente Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez Elena Bañares-España Antonio Flores-Moya María J. García-Sánchez A seasonal cycle of sulfide, nitrate, phosphate, ammonium, chlorophyll a (Chl a) and Oscillatoria sp. abundance (<100 μm), as well as the relative contribution...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 882: Ocean Exchange and Circulation Water doi: 10.3390/w12030882 Authors: Gačić Bensi The great spatial and temporal variability, which characterizes the marine environment, requires a huge effort to be observed and studied properly since changes in circulation and mixing processes directly influence the variability of the physical and biogeochemical properties. A multi-platform approach and a collaborative effort, in addition to optimizing both data collection...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 878: Simulating the Hydrological Processes of a Meso-Scale Watershed on the Loess Plateau, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12030878 Authors: Manman Leng Yang Yu Shengping Wang Zhiqiang Zhang The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is widely used to simulate watershed streamflow by integrating complex interactions between climate, geography, soil, vegetation, land use/land cover and other human activities. Although there have been many studies involving...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 880: Quantitative Estimation of Soil Salinization in an Arid Region of the Keriya Oasis based on Multidimensional Modeling Water doi: 10.3390/w12030880 Authors: Kasim Maihemuti Sawut Abliz Dong Abdumutallip Soil salinity is one of the major factors causing land degradation and desertification on earth, especially its important damage to farming activities and land-use management in arid and semiarid regions. The salt-affected land is predominant...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 879: Predicting Urban Waterlogging Risks by Regression Models and Internet Open-Data Sources Water doi: 10.3390/w12030879 Authors: Tran Xu Dang Alwah In the context of climate change and rapid urbanization, urban waterlogging risks due to rainstorms are becoming more frequent and serious in developing countries. One of the most important means of solving this problem lies in elucidating the roles played by the spatial factors of urban surfaces that...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 881: A Regression-Based Prediction Model of Suspended Sediment Yield in the Cuyahoga River in Ohio Using Historical Satellite Images and Precipitation Data Water doi: 10.3390/w12030881 Authors: Ampomah Hosseiny Zhang Smith Sample-Lord Urbanization typically results in increased imperviousness which alters suspended sediment yield and impacts geomorphic and ecological processes within urban streams. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 870: Permeability and Groundwater Enrichment Characteristics of the Loess-Paleosol Sequence in the Southern Chinese Loess Plateau Water doi: 10.3390/w12030870 Authors: Tianjie Shao Ruojin Wang Zhiping Xu Peiru Wei Jingbo Zhao Junjie Niu Dianxing Song To determine the permeability characteristics and the groundwater enrichment conditions of loess and paleosol layers, this article systematically investigated the permeability, magnetic susceptibility,...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 877: Changes in Potential Evaporation in the Years 1952–2018 in North-Western Poland in Terms of the Impact of Climatic Changes on Hydrological and Hydrochemical Conditions Water doi: 10.3390/w12030877 Authors: Monika Okoniewska Danuta Szumińska The paper analyses changes in potential evaporation E0 (mm) in north-western Poland in the years 1952–2018. E0 (mm) has been calculated according to Ivanov’s formula based on the monthly values of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 874: Evaluation of Flood Prediction Capability of the WRF-Hydro Model Based on Multiple Forcing Scenarios Water doi: 10.3390/w12030874 Authors: Mingkun Sun Zhijia Li Cheng Yao Zhiyu Liu Jingfeng Wang Aizhong Hou Ke Zhang Wenbo Huo Moyang Liu The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)-Hydro model as a physical-based, fully-distributed, multi-parameterization modeling system easy to couple with numerical weather prediction model, has potential...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 876: Importance of the Submerged Zone during Dry Periods to Nitrogen Removal in a Bioretention System Water doi: 10.3390/w12030876 Authors: Kangmao He Huapeng Qin Fan Wang Wei Ding Yixiang Yin Adding a submerged zone (SZ) is deemed to promote denitrification during dry periods and thus improve NO3− removal efficiency of a bioretention system. However, few studies had investigated the variation of nitrogen concentration in the SZ during dry...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 873: Comparative Assessment of Fluvial Suspended Sediment Concentration Analysis Methods Water doi: 10.3390/w12030873 Authors: Flóra Pomázi Sándor Baranya The monitoring of fluvial suspended sediment transport plays an important role in the assessment of morphological processes, river habitats, or many social activities associated with river management. However, establishing and operating a well-functioning sediment monitoring system requires the involvement...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 875: Vegetated Ditch Habitats Provide Net Nitrogen Sink and Phosphorus Storage Capacity in Agricultural Drainage Networks Despite Senescent Plant Leaching Water doi: 10.3390/w12030875 Authors: Jason Taylor Matthew Moore Shannon L. Speir Sam Testa The utility of vegetated ditch environments as nutrient sinks in agricultural watersheds is dependent in part on biogeochemical transformations that control plant uptake and release during decomposition. We investigated...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 872: Automatic Surface Water Mapping Using Polarimetric SAR Data for Long-Term Change Detection Water doi: 10.3390/w12030872 Authors: Wen Zhang Baoxin Hu Glen S. Brown Mapping the distribution and persistence of surface water in a timely fashion has broad value for tracking dynamic events like flooding, and for monitoring the effects of climate and human activities on natural resource values and biodiversity. Traditionally, surface water is mapped from optical...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 869: A Comment on Chinese Policies to Avoid Negative Impacts on River Ecosystems by Hydropower Projects Water doi: 10.3390/w12030869 Authors: Miao Wu Ang Chen Xingnan Zhang Michael E. McClain The rapid economic development of river basins depends on the excessive use of water resources. China experienced a rapid development of hydropower projects in the last two decades and thus faces many ecological and environmental issues, especially in ecologically...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 871: Drought Victims Demand Justice: Politicization of Drought by Farmers in Southern Germany over Time Water doi: 10.3390/w12030871 Authors: Wibke Müller Farmers have an important role in problematizing and politicizing drought. Following the argumentative turn in policy analysis, the paper analyzes the process of problem definition by means of a framing analysis, zooming in on four major drought events covered in German farming sector journals that are published...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 867: Evaluating the Efficacy of Point-of-Use Water Treatment Systems Using the Water Quality Index in Rural Southwest China Water doi: 10.3390/w12030867 Authors: Zejin Zhang Wei Zhang Xi Hu Kexin Li Pengfei Luo Xin Li Wen Xu Shiyu Li Changqun Duan Rural China faces a shortage of safe drinking water. There are significant challenges associated with small centralized water supply systems and decentralized water supply systems. Many rural residents...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 868: Amendment of Husk Biochar on Accumulation and Chemical Form of Cadmium in Lettuce and Pak-Choi Grown in Contaminated Soil Water doi: 10.3390/w12030868 Authors: Kuei-San Chen Chun-Yu Pai Hung-Yu Lai (1) Background: Cadmium (Cd) accumulated in vegetables not only affects their growth but can also enter the human body via food chains and lead to various illnesses. Plants can decrease the toxicity by changing the chemical forms of Cd, which include inorganic...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 866: Estimating 500-m Resolution Soil Moisture Using Sentinel-1 and Optical Data Synergy Water doi: 10.3390/w12030866 Authors: Myriam Foucras Mehrez Zribi Clément Albergel Nicolas Baghdadi Jean-Christophe Calvet Thierry Pellarin The aim of this study is to estimate surface soil moisture at a spatial resolution of 500 m and a temporal resolution of at least 6 days, by combining remote sensing data from Sentinel-1 and optical data from Sentinel-2 and...
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