Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2046: Evaluation of Effects of Municipal Sludge Leachates on Water Quality Water doi: 10.3390/w12072046 Authors: Ioannis Giannakis Christina Emmanouil Athanasios Kungolos Biosolids made from municipal sludge are an attractive solution instead of chemical fertilization. Nevertheless, their effects on the ecosystem should always be considered. In the present study, anaerobically digested sludge was subjected to two leaching methods (EN 12457-2 and NEN 7341)...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2045: The Use of Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement to Filter Stormwater for Non-Potable Uses in Buildings Water doi: 10.3390/w12072045 Authors: Enedir Ghisi Thiago Belotto Liseane Padilha Thives A reduction in potable water demand in buildings could be made by using non-potable water for certain uses, such as flushing toilets. This represents a sustainable strategy that results in potable water savings while also using an underutilised resource. This...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2048: Students’ Scientific Evaluations of Water Resources Water doi: 10.3390/w12072048 Authors: Josh Medrano Joshua Jaffe Doug Lombardi Margaret A. Holzer Christopher Roemmele Socially-relevant and controversial topics, such as water issues, are subject to differences in the explanations that scientists and the public (herein, students) find plausible. Students need to be more evaluative of the validity of explanations (e.g., explanatory models) based...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2042: Decision Making Methods to Optimize New Dam Site Selections on the Nitra River Water doi: 10.3390/w12072042 Authors: Igor Gacko Zlatica Muchová Ľuboš Jurík Karol Šinka Ladislav Fabian František Petrovič Grouping both existing and newly planned reservoirs based on selected measurable characteristics allows to point out issues that are relevant to area management using experience obtained from the environment of other sites. Divisive hierarchical...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2043: The Existence of Multiple Hydro-Mentalities and their Implications for Water Governance: A Case Study from Sri Lanka Water doi: 10.3390/w12072043 Authors: Kavindra Paranage Nancy Yang Traditionally, the literature on water management has considered water from a techno-realist point of view by focusing on finding the most effective technical solutions to distribute the largest quantities of water among populations. This paper takes an alternative position...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2041: Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Three Typical Dominant Wetland Vegetation Species’ Response to the Hydrological Gradient in a Ramsar Wetland, Honghe National Nature Reserve, Northeast China Water doi: 10.3390/w12072041 Authors: Dandan Yan Zhaoqing Luan Dandan Xu Yuanyuan Xue Dan Shi Water level fluctuations resulting from natural and anthropogenic factors have been projected to affect the functions and structures of wetland vegetation communities....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2044: Evaluation of Design Storms and Critical Rainfall Durations for Flood Prediction in Partially Urbanized Catchments Water doi: 10.3390/w12072044 Authors: Nino Krvavica Josip Rubinić This study investigates and compares several design storms for flood estimation in partially urbanized catchments. Six different design storms were considered: Euler II, alternating block method, average variability method, Huff’s curves, and uniform rainfall. Additionally,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2039: Improving SWAT Model Calibration Using Soil MERGE (SMERGE) Water doi: 10.3390/w12072039 Authors: Kenneth J. Tobin Marvin E. Bennett This study examined eight Great Plains moderate-sized (832 to 4892 km2) watersheds. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) autocalibration routine SUFI-2 was executed using twenty-three model parameters, from 1995 to 2015 in each basin, to identify highly sensitive parameters (HSP). The model was then run on a year-by-year...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2040: A Comparison and Validation of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Models Water doi: 10.3390/w12072040 Authors: Kaylyn S. Gootman Elliott Kellner Jason A. Hubbart Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) is fundamental to shallow groundwater processes. There is an ongoing need for observed and model validated Ksat values. A study was initiated in a representative catchment of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the Northeast USA, to collect observed Ksat and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2038: Forecasting Urban Water Demand Using Cellular Automata Water doi: 10.3390/w12072038 Authors: Marques de Oliveira Maria Oliveira da Silva de Assis de Souza Filho Maria Nunes Carvalho Locarno Frota Associating the dynamic spatial modeling based on the theory of cellular automata with remote sensing and geoprocessing technologies, this article analyzes what would be the per capita consumption behavior of Fortaleza-CE, located in the Northeast...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2037: Global BROOK90 R Package: An Automatic Framework to Simulate the Water Balance at Any Location Water doi: 10.3390/w12072037 Authors: Ivan Vorobevskii Rico Kronenberg Christian Bernhofer The number of global open-source hydrometeorological datasets and models is large and growing. However, with a constantly growing demand for services and tools from stakeholders, not only in the water sector, we still lack simple solutions, which are easy to use for nonexperts....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2035: Experimental Study at the Reservoir Head of Run-Of-River Hydropower Plants in Gravel Bed Rivers. Part I: Delta Formation at Operation Level Water doi: 10.3390/w12072035 Authors: Christine Sindelar Thomas Gold Kevin Reiterer Christoph Hauer Helmut Habersack This study concerns scaled physical model tests of the delta formation process at the head of a run-of-river hydropower plant (RoR). It forms part of a larger research project to provide a scientific...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2033: Drought Vulnerability in the United States: An Integrated Assessment Water doi: 10.3390/w12072033 Authors: Johanna Engström Keighobad Jafarzadegan Hamid Moradkhani Droughts are among the costliest natural hazards in the U.S. and globally. The severity of the hazard is closely related to a region’s ability to cope and recover from the event, an ability that depends on the region’s sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Here, the vulnerability...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2034: Role of the Hyporheic Zone in Increasing the Resilience of Mountain Streams Facing Intermittency Water doi: 10.3390/w12072034 Authors: Maria Cristina Bruno Alberto Doretto Fulvio Boano Luca Ridolfi Stefano Fenoglio We investigated the impact of intermittence in previously-perennial Alpine stream reaches, targeting the role of the hyporheic zone in increasing the resilience of these aquatic systems. We selected a perennial and an intermittent site...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2036: Land Use Pattern and Vegetation Cover Dynamics in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) Intervening Basin Water doi: 10.3390/w12072036 Authors: Yi Xiong Jianzhong Zhou Lu Chen Benjun Jia Na Sun Mengqi Tian Guohua Hu The Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) intervening basin is one of the most important, ecologically fragile and sensitive areas in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Since the completion and operation of the TGR, the change of the ecological...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2031: Mesozooplankton Selective Feeding on Phytoplankton in a Semi-Enclosed Bay as Revealed by HPLC Pigment Analysis Water doi: 10.3390/w12072031 Authors: Cui Feng Mengqi Han Chenchen Dong Jingyi Jia Jianwu Chen Chong Kim Wong Xiangjiang Liu Mesozooplankton have been known to be important consumers of phytoplankton, and the community plays an important role in removing the primary production in the marine ecosystem. In the present study, mesozooplankton...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2032: The Application of Modified Natural Polymers in Toxicant Dye Compounds Wastewater: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12072032 Authors: Siti Aisyah Ishak Mohamad Fared Murshed Hazizan Md Akil Norli Ismail Siti Zalifah Md Rasib Adel Ali Saeed Al-Gheethi The utilization of various types of natural and modified polymers for removing toxicant dyes in wastewater generated by the dye industry is reviewed in this article. Dye wastewater contains large amounts...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2029: Impact of Cold Temperatures on Nitrogen Removal in Denitrifying Down-Flow Hanging Sponge (DDHS) Reactors Water doi: 10.3390/w12072029 Authors: Emily J. Collings Joshua T. Bunce Mui-Choo Jong David W. Graham Innovative and low-energy solutions for the removal of nitrogen from domestic wastewater are needed to achieve regulatory ambitions. However, there is a lack of appropriate technologies for use in non-centralised applications, where receiving waterbodies...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2030: Flood Modeling and Groundwater Flooding in Urbanized Reclamation Areas: The Case of Rome (Italy) Water doi: 10.3390/w12072030 Authors: Corrado P. Mancini Stefano Lollai Elena Volpi Aldo Fiori Coastal regions below the sea level, subject to reclamation, are becoming more and more exposed to flooding following increasing urbanization and hydrological changes. In these areas, groundwater and water table dynamics during intense rainfall events can be...
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