Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2241: The Future of Water Management in Central Asia
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2241: The Future of Water Management in Central Asia Water doi: 10.3390/w12082241 Authors: Ronny Berndtsson Kamshat Tussupova Central Asia is an increasingly important strategic geopolitical region. During the latest decades, the region has often been identified as close to potential conflict regarding water usage. This includes the sharing of water from the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya in the Aral Sea Basin. The Aral Sea disaster has exposed a complex picture...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2242: Effective Adsorption of Reactive Black 5 onto Hybrid Hexadecylamine Impregnated Chitosan-Powdered Activated Carbon Beads Water doi: 10.3390/w12082242 Authors: Mohammadtaghi Vakili Haider M. Zwain Amin Mojiri Wei Wang Fatemeh Gholami Zahra Gholami Abdulmoseen S. Giwa Baozhen Wang Giovanni Cagnetta Babak Salamatinia In this study, hexadecylamine (HDA) impregnated chitosan-powder activated carbon (Ct-PAC) composite beads were successfully...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2239: Effects of Different Irrigation Methods on Environmental Factors, Rice Production, and Water Use Efficiency Water doi: 10.3390/w12082239 Authors: Shuxuan Zhang Ghulam Rasool Xiangping Guo Liang Sen Kewen Cao Rice is one of the most important food crops in China and is also the largest user of agricultural water. Experiments were conducted for two consecutive years at two locations of Jiangsu province to study the effect of four irrigation methods...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2240: WWTP Effluent Quality Improvement for Agricultural Reuse Using an Autonomous Prototype Water doi: 10.3390/w12082240 Authors: Laura Ponce-Robles Beatriz Masdemont-Hernández Teresa Munuera-Pérez Aránzazu Pagán-Muñoz Andrés Jesús Lara-Guillén Antonio José García-García Francisco Pedrero-Salcedo Pedro Antonio Nortes-Tortosa Juan José Alarcón-Cabañero Wastewater reuse presents a promising way to mitigate the risk to global water resources...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2238: Normal and Tangential Drag Forces of Nylon Nets, Clean and with Fouling, in Fish Farming. An Experimental Study Water doi: 10.3390/w12082238 Authors: Yarko Niño Kevin Vidal Aldo Tamburrino Luis Zamorano Juan Felipe Beltrán Gustavo Estay Aldo Muñoz Experiments in a laboratory tank have provided measurements of the normal and tangential drag forces exerted on flat nets for different flow conditions. From those forces, normal and tangential...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2236: Introducing Life Cycle Assessment in Costs and Benefits Analysis of Vegetation Management in Drainage Canals of Lowland Agricultural Landscapes Water doi: 10.3390/w12082236 Authors: Elena Tamburini Elisa Soana Mauro Monti Elisa Anna Fano Giuseppe Castaldelli Nitrate pollution remains an unsolved issue worldwide, causing serious effects on water quality and eutrophication of freshwater and brackish water environments. Its economic costs are still...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2237: Impact of Hydropower Dam Operation and Management on Downstream Hydrogeomorphology in Semi-Arid Environments (Tekeze, Northern Ethiopia) Water doi: 10.3390/w12082237 Authors: Annys Ghebreyohannes Nyssen Due to renewed interest in hydropower dams in the face of climate change, it is important to assess dam operations and management in combination with downstream impacts on rivers in (semi-)arid environments. In this study, the impacts of the Tekeze...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2234: Nitrogen Removal for Liquid-Ammonia Mercerization Wastewater via Partial Nitritation/Anammox Based on Zeolite Sequencing Batch Reactor Water doi: 10.3390/w12082234 Authors: Lei Zheng Yongxing Chen Songwei Zhou Yuchen Chen Xingxing Wang Xiaojun Wang Lijuan Zhang Zhenguo Chen Liquid-ammonia mercerization is commonly used to enhance the quality of cotton fabric in the textile industry, resulting in a large amount of liquid-ammonia mercerization...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2235: A Novel Lazy Serpent Algorithm for the Prioritization of Leak Repairs in Water Networks Water doi: 10.3390/w12082235 Authors: El-Zahab Al-Sakkaf Mohammed Abdelkader Zayed Maximizing benefit from budget allocation is a major challenge for municipalities in the modern era. This is especially significant when it comes to infrastructure network management such as water distribution networks. The main challenges of water distribution networks are leakage...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2233: Site Fidelity, Habitat Use, and Movement Patterns of the Common Carp during Its Breeding Season in the Pearl River as Determined by Acoustic Telemetry Water doi: 10.3390/w12082233 Authors: Yingqiu Zhang Yuefei Li Lili Zhang Zhi Wu Shuli Zhu Jie Li Xinhui Li Understanding fish migration patterns and habitat use is essential for fisheries management. We conducted an acoustic fine-scale tracking experiment from March to June 2017 to determine...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2232: Investigation into Freezing Point Depression in Soil Caused by NaCl Solution Water doi: 10.3390/w12082232 Authors: Feng Ming Lei Chen Dongqing Li Chengcheng Du Engineering practices illustrate that the water phase change in soil causes severe damage to roads, canals, airport runways and other buildings. The freezing point is an important indicator to judge whether the soil is frozen or not. Up to now, the influence of salt on the freezing point is...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2231: Evaluation of the Main Function of Low Impact Development Based on Rainfall Events Water doi: 10.3390/w12082231 Authors: Meiyan Feng Kwansue Jung Fengping Li Hongyan Li Joo-Cheol Kim Low Impact Development (LID) is one of the sustainable approaches to urban stormwater management in areas with rapid urbanization. Although LID has been shown to have a positive effect in flood reduction, the hydrological balance regulation effect of LID under a variety...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2230: Groundcovers in Olive Groves in Semiarid Climates: Are They Always Beneficial? Water doi: 10.3390/w12082230 Authors: Blanca Sastre Belén Álvarez Omar Antón Maria Ángeles Pérez Maria Jose Marques Ramón Bienes Andrés García-Díaz Olive groves on the Mediterranean Basin are usually managed by continuous tillage and low organic matter inputs, leading to several soil degradation processes. Groundcovers (GCs) have come out as an alternative soil...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2229: Minimizing Soil Nitrogen Leaching by Changing Furrow Irrigation into Sprinkler Fertigation in Potato Fields in the Northwestern China Plain Water doi: 10.3390/w12082229 Authors: Wenzhu Yang Yan Jiao Mingde Yang Huiyang Wen Peng Gu Jie Yang Lijia Liu Junxia Yu Irrigation water is limiting for crop production in arid areas and application rates of fertilizers often exceed crop requirements, resulting in high accumulation of nitrate nitrogen...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2225: Modeling and Analysis of Particle Deposition Processes on PVDF Membranes Using SEM Images and Image Generation by Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Networks Water doi: 10.3390/w12082225 Authors: Caterina Cacciatori Takashi Hashimoto Satoshi Takizawa Due to highly complex membrane structures, previous research on membrane modeling employed extensively simplified structures to save computational expense, which resulted in deviation from the real...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2227: Use of Water Isotopes in Hydrological Processes Water doi: 10.3390/w12082227 Authors: Polona Vreča Zoltán Kern Stable (16O, 17O, 18O, 1H, 2H) and radioactive (3H) isotopes in water are powerful tools in the tracking of the path of water molecules in the whole water cycle. In the last decade, a considerable number of studies have been published on the use of water isotopes, and the number continues to grow due to the development of new measurement techniques...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2226: An Improved Immersed Boundary Method for Simulating Flow Hydrodynamics in Streams with Complex Terrains Water doi: 10.3390/w12082226 Authors: Yalan Song Yong G. Lai Xiaofeng Liu Three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations have gained substantial popularity in recent years for stream flow modelling. The complex terrain in streams is usually represented by a 3D mesh conforming to the terrain geometry. Such terrain-conforming meshes...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2228: Geomorphology-Based Analysis of Flood Critical Areas in Small Hilly Catchments for Civil Protection Purposes and Early Warning Systems: The Case of the Feltrino Stream and the Lanciano Urban Area (Abruzzo, Central Italy) Water doi: 10.3390/w12082228 Authors: Tommaso Piacentini Cristiano Carabella Fausto Boccabella Silvia Ferrante Carlo Gregori Vania Mancinelli Alessandro Pacione Tommaso Pagliani Enrico Miccadei This work is based on...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2224: Inline Pumped Storage Hydropower towards Smart and Flexible Energy Recovery in Water Networks Water doi: 10.3390/w12082224 Authors: Helena M. Ramos Avin Dadfar Mohsen Besharat Kemi Adeyeye Energy and climate change are thoroughly linked since fossil energy generation highly affects the environment, and climate change influences the renewable energy generation capacity. Hence, this study gives a new contribution to the energy generation in water infrastructures...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2223: Using the Apriori Algorithm and Copula Function for the Bivariate Analysis of Flash Flood Risk Water doi: 10.3390/w12082223 Authors: Ming Zhong Jiao Wang Tao Jiang Zhijun Huang Xiaohong Chen Yang Hong Flash flooding is a phenomenon characterized by multiple variables. Few studies have focused on the extracted variables involved in flash flood risk and the joint probability distribution of the extracted variables. In this paper, a novel methodology...
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