Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1576: Control of Nuisance Cyanobacteria in Drinking Water Resources Using Alternative Algae-Blocking Mats Water doi: 10.3390/w12061576 Authors: Kim Gwon Kim Cho Lee Kim The water intake facility of Paldangho Lake (PIF), constructed in 1988, supplies drinking water to the Seoul metropolitan area and satellite city (ca. 20 million inhabitants) in South Korea. A nuisance cyanobacterial bloom (CB) has been observed every year in the PIF. Thus, related...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1573: Extreme Inundation Statistics on a Composite Beach Water doi: 10.3390/w12061573 Authors: Ahmed Abdalazeez Ira Didenkulova Denys Dutykh Céline Labart The runup of initial Gaussian narrow-banded and wide-banded wave fields and its statistical characteristics are investigated using direct numerical simulations, based on the nonlinear shallow water equations. The bathymetry consists of the section of a constant depth, which is matched with the beach of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1571: Modeling Soil Nitrate Accumulation and Leaching in Conventional and Conservation Agriculture Cropping Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12061571 Authors: Colombani Mastrocicco Vincenzi Castaldelli Nitrate is a major groundwater inorganic contaminant that is mainly due to fertilizer leaching. Compost amendment can increase soils’ organic substances and thus promote denitrification in intensively cultivated soils. In this study, two agricultural...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1572: Evaluating the Impact of Urban Growth on the Design of Storm Water Drainage Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12061572 Authors: Abd-Elhamid Zeleňáková Vranayová Fathy Urban growth is one of the major causes of flooding in urban areas. This affects the runoff coefficients, which is among the most important factors that affect the design of storm water drainage systems. Changing the runoff coefficient will affect the design parameters of the drainage...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1570: Watershed Prioritization of Kaeng Lawa Sub-Watershed, Khon Kaen Province Using the Morphometric and Land-Use Analysis: A Case Study of Heavy Flooding Caused by Tropical Storm Podul Water doi: 10.3390/w12061570 Authors: Waiyasusri Chotpantarat During September 29–31, 2019, tropical storm Podul moved into the Kaeng Lawa sub-watershed (KLs), the upstream area of the Chi watershed, causing the worst flooding in 40 years. This study was carried out...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1568: Flood Flow Frequency Analysis to Estimate Potential Floodplain Nitrogen Treatment during Overbank Flow Events in Urban Stream Restoration Projects Water doi: 10.3390/w12061568 Authors: Doll Kurki-Fox Page Nelson Johnson Stream restoration for mitigation purposes has grown rapidly since the 1980s. As the science advances, some organizations (Chesapeake Bay Program, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality) have approved or are considering...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1569: Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation of Gas–Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Aeration Tank Based on CFD-PBM Coupled Model Water doi: 10.3390/w12061569 Authors: Dong Guo Liu Liu Dai Gas–liquid two-phase flow directly determines the efficiency and stability of the aeration tank. In this paper, a gas–liquid two-phase testbed is built to explore the aeration performance and internal flow in an aeration tank, including an inverted-umbrella...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1564: A Transport-Phenomena Approach to Model Hydrodynamic Cavitation of Organic Pollutants Water doi: 10.3390/w12061564 Authors: Capocelli De Crescenzo Karatza Lancia Musmarra Piemonte Prisciandaro Hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) has been extensively studied for the Advanced Oxidation of organic compounds in wastewaters since it physically produces an oxidative environment at ambient conditions. This process is simple and economical since...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1566: 3D Characterization of a Coastal Freshwater Aquifer in SE Malta (Mediterranean Sea) by Time-Domain Electromagnetics Water doi: 10.3390/w12061566 Authors: Pondthai Everett Micallef Weymer Faghih Haroon Jegen Electromagnetic (EM) geophysical methods are well equipped to distinguish electrical resistivity contrasts between freshwater-saturated and seawater-saturated formations. Beneath the semi-arid, rapidly urbanizing island of Malta,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1561: An Attempt to Characterize the Recharge of Alluvial Fans Facing the Northern Italian Apennines: Indications from Water Stable Isotopes Water doi: 10.3390/w12061561 Authors: Martinelli Dadomo Cervi Nowadays, climate changes and increased water demand for human and agricultural purposes pose important questions for the groundwater management of alluvial aquifers facing the northern Italian Apennines. The large groundwater withdrawals, coupled with an...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1565: Assessments of Impacts of Climate and Forest Change on Water Resources Using SWAT Model in a Subboreal Watershed in Northern Da Hinggan Mountains Water doi: 10.3390/w12061565 Authors: Yu Man Duan Cai Water resources from rivers are essential to humans. The discharge of rivers is demonstrated to be significantly affected by climate change in the literature, particularly in the boreal and subboreal climate zones. The Da Hinggan Mountains in subboreal...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1563: Assessment of Restorative Maintenance Practices on the Infiltration Capacity of Permeable Pavement Water doi: 10.3390/w12061563 Authors: Danz Selbig Buer Permeable pavement has the potential to be an effective tool in managing stormwater runoff through retention of sediment and other contaminants associated with urban development. The infiltration capacity of permeable pavement declines as more sediment is captured, thereby reducing its ability to...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1567: Modelling the Mineralization of Formaldehyde by Treatment with Nitric Acid Water doi: 10.3390/w12061567 Authors: Merayo Balea Tejera Garrido-Escudero Negro Blanco Formaldehyde is a recalcitrant pollutant, which is difficult to remove from wastewater using conventional and advanced treatments. The objective of this research was to remove the organic matter from formaldehyde from an industrial wastewater, achieving its total mineralization...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1562: Analysis of the Most Severe Flood Events in Turkey (1960–2014): Which Triggering Mechanisms and Aggravating Pathways Can be Identified? Water doi: 10.3390/w12061562 Authors: Gamze Koç Theresia Petrow Annegret H. Thieken The most severe flood events in Turkey were determined for the period 1960–2014 by considering the number of fatalities, the number of affected people, and the total economic losses as indicators. The potential triggering mechanisms...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1558: Climate Change and Species Invasion Drive Decadal Variation in Fish Fauna in the Min River, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12061558 Authors: Weide Deng Li Lin Xiaoxia Huang Te-Yu Liao Bin Kang Freshwater fishes are threatened by increasing environmental changes and human disturbances. The Min River, the largest river in Southeastern China, contains unique fish fauna for the Oriental realm. Due to environmental changes brought by forty years of economic...
Fri May 29, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1556: Future Runoff Analysis in the Mekong River Basin under a Climate Change Scenario Using Deep Learning Water doi: 10.3390/w12061556 Authors: Daeeop Lee Giha Lee Seongwon Kim Sungho Jung In establishing adequate climate change policies regarding water resource development and management, the most essential step is performing a rainfall-runoff analysis. To this end, although several physical models have been developed and tested in many studies, they...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1559: Hydro-Economic Modelling for Water-Policy Assessment Under Climate Change at a River Basin Scale: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12061559 Authors: Alfonso Expósito Felicitas Beier Julio Berbel Hydro-economic models (HEMs) constitute useful instruments to assess water-resource management and inform water policy. In the last decade, HEMs have achieved significant advances regarding the assessment of the impacts of water-policy instruments at a river basin...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1560: Development Trends and Frontiers of Ocean Big Data Research Based on CiteSpace Water doi: 10.3390/w12061560 Authors: Jiajing Wu Dongning Jia Zhiqiang Wei Dou Xin Modern socio-economic development and climate prediction depend greatly on the application of ocean big data. With the accelerated development of ocean observation methods and the continuous improvement of the big data science, the challenges of multiple data sources and data diversity have...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1555: Assessment of Rainfall Distributions and Characteristics in Coastal Provinces of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta under Climate Change and ENSO Processes Water doi: 10.3390/w12061555 Authors: Vinh Hoa Dang Dung Duc Tran Dao Dinh Cham Phan Thi Thanh Hang Hung Thanh Nguyen Hieu Van Truong Phuong Ha Tran Man Ba Duong Ninh Trung Nguyen Kiem Van Le Thuc Bich Thi Pham Au Hai Nguyen Rainwater is considered a promising alternative water...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1552: Inundation Map Prediction with Rainfall Return Period and Machine Learning Water doi: 10.3390/w12061552 Authors: Hyun Il Kim Kun Yeun Han To date, various methods of flood prediction using numerical analysis or machine learning have been studied. However, a methodology for simultaneously predicting the rainfall return period and an inundation map for observed rainfall has not been presented. Simultaneous prediction of the return period and inundation map...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1557: Sediment Microbial Diversity in Urban Piedmont North Carolina Watersheds Receiving Wastewater Input Water doi: 10.3390/w12061557 Authors: Sandra Clinton James Johnson Kevin Lambirth Shan Sun Cory Brouwer Olya Keen Molly Redmond Anthony Fodor Cynthia Gibas Urban streams are heavily influenced by human activity. One way that this occurs is through the reintroduction of treated effluent from wastewater treatment plants. We measured the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1550: Estimation of Flood Travel Time in River Network of the Middle Yellow River, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12061550 Authors: Li He The flood travel time (FTT) along the Longmen-Tongguan Reach, part of the stem channel of the Middle Yellow River, is shorter than 30 h, and estimating the FTT of different discharges propagating from Wubu Hydrology Station to Tongguan Hydrology Station is necessary. However, the propagation of floods in this river network, the main...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1553: The Irrigation Cooling Effect as a Climate Regulation Service of Agroecosystems Water doi: 10.3390/w12061553 Authors: José Antonio Albaladejo-García Francisco Alcon José Miguel Martínez-Paz Agroecosystems provide a range of benefits to society and the economy, which we call ecosystem services (ES). These services can be evaluated on the basis of environmental and socioeconomic indicators. The irrigation cooling effect (ICE), given its influence on the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1551: Chemically Modified Biosorbents and Their Role in the Removal of Emerging Pharmaceutical Waste in the Water System Water doi: 10.3390/w12061551 Authors: Adewale Adewuyi Presence of pharmaceutically active compounds (PACs) as emerging contaminants in water is a major concern. Recent reports have confirmed the presence of PACs in natural and wastewater systems, which have caused several problems indicating the urgent need for their removal. The current review...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1554: Effects of Indigenous Cultivation Practices on Soil Conservation in the Hilly Semiarid Areas of Western Sudan Water doi: 10.3390/w12061554 Authors: Abdalla I. A. Ahmed Ibrahim M. Eldoma Elsadig ElMahdi A. H. Elaagip Fujiang Hou In dry regions, it is customary for farmers to use soil water conservation and/or water harvesting techniques. These practices have now become applicable to agriculturalists combating the adverse effects of drought on food...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1549: Novel Ensembles of Deep Learning Neural Network and Statistical Learning for Flash-Flood Susceptibility Mapping Water doi: 10.3390/w12061549 Authors: Romulus Costache Phuong Thao Thi Ngo Dieu Tien Bui This study aimed to assess flash-flood susceptibility using a new hybridization approach of Deep Neural Network (DNN), Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), and Frequency Ratio (FR). A catchment area in south-eastern Romania was selected for this proposed...
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