Water, Vol. 12, Pages 510: Recent Advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Sensor Technology for Monitoring Water Quality Water doi: 10.3390/w12020510 Authors: Park Kim Lee Water quality control and management in water resources are important for providing clean and safe water to the public. Due to their large area, collection, analysis, and management of a large amount of water quality data are essential. Water quality data are collected mainly by manual...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 505: A Deterministic Monte Carlo Simulation Framework for Dam Safety Flow Control Assessment Water doi: 10.3390/w12020505 Authors: King Simonovic Simulation has become more widely applied for analysis of dam safety flow control in recent years. Stochastic simulation has proven to be a useful tool that allows for easy estimation of the overall probability of dam overtopping failure. However, it is difficult to analyze “uncommon combinations of events”...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 504: Short-Term Optimal Operation of Baluchaung II Hydropower Plant in Myanmar
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 504: Short-Term Optimal Operation of Baluchaung II Hydropower Plant in Myanmar Water doi: 10.3390/w12020504 Authors: Jiqing Li May Myat Moe Saw Siyu Chen Hongjie Yu The short-term optimal operation model discussed in this paper uses the 2016 to 2018 daily and monthly data of Baluchaung II hydropower station to optimize power generation by minimizing water consumption effectively in order to get more revenue from optimal operation. In the first stage, run-off-river...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 503: An Improved Ecological Footprint Method for Water Resources Utilization Assessment in the Cities Water doi: 10.3390/w12020503 Authors: Li Zhao Li Yi Bu Wang Liu Shu Economic development and increasing population density along the lower reaches of the Yellow river have challenged the river’s ability to meet human and ecological demand. The evaluation of the sustainability of water resources in the lower reaches of the Yellow...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 502: Utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) to Develop a Remotely Monitored Autonomous Floodgate for Water Management and Control Water doi: 10.3390/w12020502 Authors: Hussen Hajjaj Hameed Sultan Moktar Lee In recent years, floods have increased in frequency and intensity, causing tremendous hardship. In badly affected regions, mostly the rural areas, Weir-type floodgates are the only measure against floods. However, these manually operated gates are...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 501: Metagenomics Uncovers a Core SAR11 Population in Brackish Surface Waters of the Baltic Sea Water doi: 10.3390/w12020501 Authors: Vidanage Ko Oh The Baltic Sea represents one of the largest brackish ecosystems where various environmental factors control dynamic seasonal shifts in the structure, diversity, and function of the planktonic microbial communities. In this study, despite seasonal fluctuations, several bacterial populations (<2% of the...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 500: Relationship between the Water Quality Elements of Water Bodies and the Hydrometric Parameters: Case Study in Lithuania Water doi: 10.3390/w12020500 Authors: Laima Česonienė Daiva Šileikienė Midona Dapkienė The larger and deeper lakes and ponds are, the better the conditions for spontaneous water purification, slower hydrobiological processes and slower accumulation of sediment. The goal of this research was to assess the ecological status of selected...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 506: Delineation of Seawater Intrusion Using Geo-Electrical Survey in a Coastal Aquifer of Kamala Beach, Phuket, Thailand Water doi: 10.3390/w12020506 Authors: Vann Puttiwongrak Suteerasak Koedsin The coastal areas of Phuket Island are facing the risk of seawater intrusion, because intense anthropic activity due to urbanization and the expansion of tourism influences coastal hydrologic systems. Indeed, the Kamala sub-district—on the western...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 498: Seeking Common Ground in Dryland Systems: Steps Towards Adaptive Water Governance Water doi: 10.3390/w12020498 Authors: Lopez Porras Stringer Quinn Drylands are exposed to climate stressors, such as water scarcity, as well as societal stressors, including conflicts, which can make water governance unsuitable for the system’s context. The emergence of adaptive water governance often takes places in these challenging contexts, but the process...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 497: Impact of Institutional Features on the Overall Performance Assessment of Participatory Irrigation Management: Farmers’ Response from Pakistan Water doi: 10.3390/w12020497 Authors: Ahmad Pham Ashfaq Memon Bano Dahri Mustafa Baig Naseer The basic objective of the irrigation reforms, i.e., participatory irrigation management in Pakistan, was a better economic and financial management of irrigation service delivery, equity in water...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 499: Numerical Approaches for Estimating Daily River Leakage from Arid Ephemeral Streams Water doi: 10.3390/w12020499 Authors: Min Vasilevskiy Wang Pozdniakov Yu Despite the significance of river leakage to riparian ecosystems in arid/semi-arid regions, a true understanding and the accurate quantification of the leakage processes of ephemeral rivers in these regions remain elusive. In this study, the patterns of river infiltration and the associated...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 494: Rainfall Event–Duration Thresholds for Landslide Occurrences in China Water doi: 10.3390/w12020494 Authors: He Wang Liu A rainfall threshold for landslide occurrence at a national scale in China has rarely been developed in the early warning system for landslides. Based on 771 landslide events that occurred in China during 1998–2017, four groups of rainfall thresholds at different quantile levels of the quantile regression for landslide occurrences...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 495: Role of Nanomaterials in the Treatment of Wastewater: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12020495 Authors: Yaqoob Parveen Umar Mohamad Ibrahim Water is an essential part of life and its availability is important for all living creatures. On the other side, the world is suffering from a major problem of drinking water. There are several gases, microorganisms and other toxins (chemicals and heavy metals) added into water during rain, flowing water, etc....
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 493: Optimal Placement of Pressure Sensors Using Fuzzy DEMATEL-Based Sensor Influence Water doi: 10.3390/w12020493 Authors: Jorge Francés-Chust Bruno M. Brentan Silvia Carpitella Joaquín Izquierdo Idel Montalvo Nowadays, optimal sensor placement (OSP) for leakage detection in water distribution networks is a lively field of research, and a challenge for water utilities in terms of network control, management, and maintenance. How many sensors to install...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 496: Spatial Differences in the Chemical Composition of Surface Water in the Hornsund Fjord Area: A Statistical Analysis with A Focus on Local Pollution Sources Water doi: 10.3390/w12020496 Authors: Koziol Ruman Pawlak Chmiel Polkowska Surface catchments in Svalbard are sensitive to external pollution, and yet what is frequently considered external contamination may originate from local sources and natural processes. In this work, we analyze the...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 492: Intermittent Aeration in a Hybrid Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor for Carbon and Nutrient Biological Removal Water doi: 10.3390/w12020492 Authors: Di Bella Mannina The paper presents an experimental study on a lab scale hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor with intermittent aeration. Specifically, a comparison between two different operating conditions was analyzed: continuous and intermittent aeration. Both continuous and intermittent aeration were monitored...
Wed Feb 12, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 490: Effect of Hydraulic Retention Time on the Treatment of Real Cattle Slaughterhouse Wastewater and Biogas Production from HUASB Reactor Water doi: 10.3390/w12020490 Authors: Mohammed Ali Musa Syazwani Idrus Anaerobic digestion technology provides an alternative route for sustainable management of organic waste. In this study, the performance of the hybrid upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (HUASB) reactor consisting of synthetic grass media as attached growth...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 491: Evaluation of the Egg Bank of Two Small Himalayan Lakes Water doi: 10.3390/w12020491 Authors: Piscia Bovio Manca Lami Guilizzoni High mountain lakes are biodiversity treasures. They host endemic taxa, adapted to live in extreme environments. Among adaptations, production of diapausing eggs allows for overcoming the cold season. These diapausing eggs can rest in the sediments, providing a biotic reservoir known as an egg bank. Here, we estimated...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 488: The Evolution of Interfaces for Underwater Supersonic Gas Jets Water doi: 10.3390/w12020488 Authors: Zhang Li Yu Yang Wang The evolution of interfaces for underwater gas jets is the main morphological manifestation of two-phase unstable interaction. The high-speed transient photographic recording and image post-processing methods are used to obtain the interfacial change in a submerged gaseous jet at different stages after its ejection from...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 487: Application of Remote Sensing Methods to Study the Relief of Lowland River Valleys with a Complex Geological Structure—A Case Study of the Bug River Water doi: 10.3390/w12020487 Authors: Ostrowski Falkowski River valleys of the Central European Lowlands are the zones of the highest dynamics of morphogenic processes. In the case of areas affected by glacial processes, despite their lowland nature, often they also have a complex geological structure. Sub-alluvial...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 486: A Method for Dynamical Sub-Watershed Delimitating by No-Fill Digital Elevation Model and Defined Precipitation: A Case Study of Wuhan, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12020486 Authors: Zhang Cheng Jin Zhao Feng Zheng Watershed delimitation is very important in flood control management. The traditional sub-watersheds delimitated by a filling digital elevation model (DEM) may change the real sink area, such that it may not be the best choice in...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 489: A Local Model and Experimental Verification of the Crossflow Filtration of a Polydispersed Slurry Water doi: 10.3390/w12020489 Authors: Wang Yang Lu In this paper, we propose a calculation model for a crossflow filtration process that is applicable to polydispersed slurry microfiltration. The deposition velocity of particles in slurry, particle distribution, and resistance of the filter cake on the surface of the filtration media can be predicted by...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 484: Environmental Sustainability Assessment of a New Sewage Treatment Plant in China Based on Infrastructure Construction and Operation Phases Emergy Analysis Water doi: 10.3390/w12020484 Authors: Zhang Ma Due to excessive resource consumption and pressing environmental issues of the sewage treatment industry, there is extensive attention in China. Given the unique craft production process in the sewage treatment system, a series of integral emergy indicators...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 482: Performance Evaluation of Bias Correction Methods for Climate Change Monthly Precipitation Projections over Costa Rica Water doi: 10.3390/w12020482 Authors: Mendez Maathuis Hein-Griggs Alvarado-Gamboa Six bias correction (BC) methods; delta-method (DT), linear scaling (LS), power transformation of precipitation (PTR), empirical quantile mapping (EQM), gamma quantile mapping (GQM) and gamma-pareto quantile mapping (GPQM) were applied to adjust the...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 483: Machine Learning to Evaluate Impacts of Flood Protection in Bangladesh, 1983–2014 Water doi: 10.3390/w12020483 Authors: Achut Manandhar Alex Fischer David J. Bradley Mashfiqus Salehin M. Sirajul Islam Rob Hope David A. Clifton Impacts of climate change adaptation strategies need to be evaluated using principled methods spanning sectors and longer time frames. We propose machine-learning approaches to study the long-term impacts of flood protection...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 485: Performance Behavior of Participatory Water Institutions in Eastern India: A Study through Structural Equation Modelling Water doi: 10.3390/w12020485 Authors: Johnson Gandhi Jain The paper examines the nature and performance of participatory water institutions in eastern India using structural equation modelling. There is a crisis in the management of water in India, and this is often not about having too little water but about managing it poorly....
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 481: Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Stable Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes in Precipitation Across the Iberian Peninsula Water doi: 10.3390/w12020481 Authors: Hatvani Erdélyi Vreča Kern The isotopic composition of precipitation provides insight into the origin of water vapor, and the conditions attained during condensation and precipitation. Thus, the spatial variation of oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope composition (δp) and d-excess...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 480: Application of a Three-Dimensional Deterministic Model to Assess Potential Landslides, a Case Study: Antong Hot Spring Area in Hualien, Taiwan Water doi: 10.3390/w12020480 Authors: Chen Chang Liu Ho This study proposes a landslide disaster assessment model combining a fully three-dimensional, physically-based landslide model with high precision of in situ survey data such as surface slip signs, geologic drilling results, underground water observation,...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 479: Effect of Land Use on the Benthic Diatom Community of the Danube River in the Region of Budapest Water doi: 10.3390/w12020479 Authors: Trábert Duleba Bíró Dobosy Földi Hidas Kiss Óvári Takács Várbíró Záray Ács (1) Urbanization significantly influences the ecosystems of rivers in various ways, including the so-called loading effect of wastewater production. Benthic diatoms are used in ecological status assessments...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 477: An Engineering Perspective of Water Sharing Issues in Pakistan Water doi: 10.3390/w12020477 Authors: Tariq van de Giesen Janjua Shahid Farooq Water sharing within the states/provinces of a country and cross-border is unavoidable. Conflicts between the sharing entities might turn more severe due to additional dependency on water, growing population, and reduced availability as a result of climate change at many locations. Pakistan, being an...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 478: Purification of Forest Clear-Cut Runoff Water Using Biochar: A Meso-Scale Laboratory Column Experiment Water doi: 10.3390/w12020478 Authors: Kakaei Lafdani Saarela Laurén Pumpanen Palviainen Biochar can be an effective sorbent material for removal of nutrients from water due to its high specific surface area, porous structure, and high cation and anion exchange capacity. The aim of this study was to test a biochar reactor and to evaluate its...
Tue Feb 11, 2020 02:00
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