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Manfreda, Salvatore (author), Miglino, Domenico (author), Saddi, Khim Cathleen (author), Jomaa, Seifeddine (author), Eltner, Anette (author), Perks, Matthew (author), Peña-Haro, Salvador (author), Bogaard, T.A. (author), van Emmerik, Tim H.M. (author)Enhanced and effective hydrological monitoring plays a crucial role in understanding water-related processes in a rapidly changing world. Within this context, image-based river monitoring has been shown to significantly enhance data collection, improve analysis and accuracy, and support effective and timely decision making. The integration of...journal article 2024
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author)Fresh water is an essential resource for life. Yet, overexploitation of water resources, rainfall shortages, and a decrease in water quality by pollution increase water scarcity worldwide. Since agricultural production consumes about 70% of the available fresh water resources, it is particularly vulnerable for water scarcity. Therefore, this...doctoral thesis 2023
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Pronk, Tessa E. (author), Fischer, A. (author), van den Berg, Annemijne E.T. (author), Hofman, Roberta C.H.M. (author)A main focus of water managers with regard to micropollutants is the protection of aquatic ecology. However, micropollutants also have the potential to affect the production of clean drinking water. In this paper, we propose to consider the removal effort when assessing micro-pollutants with an ‘Effort Index’ (EI). Assessments using the EI...journal article 2023
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Kim, J. (author), Jonoski, Andreja (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Goethals, Peter L. M. (author)Flow control flushing water from reservoirs has been imposed in South Korea for mitigating harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) in rivers. This measure, however, can cause water shortage in reservoirs, as the measure adopting this flow control may require an additional amount of water which exceeds the water demand allocated to the...journal article 2023
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Wang, Yibo (author), Liu, Pan (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Li, Liping (author), Wu, Chen (author), Han, Dongyang (author), Zhang, Xiaojing (author), Yang, Zhikai (author), Yang, Sheng (author)Aquatic community dynamics are closely dominated by flow regime and water quality conditions, which are increasingly threatened by dam regulation, water diversion, and nutrition pollution. However, further understanding of the ecological impacts of flow regime and water quality conditions on aquatic multi-population dynamics has rarely been...journal article 2023
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Masese, Frank O. (author), Wanderi, Elizabeth W. (author), Nyakeya, Kobingi (author), Achieng, Alfred O. (author), Fouchy, Kelly (author), McClain, M.E. (author)Many streams and rivers outside conservation areas across the Afrotropics face multiple stressors from land use change, urbanization, and excessive water withdrawals. Thus, there is a need to develop cost-effective tools for assessing and monitoring ecological changes to inform management decisions. Studies utilizing macroinvertebrate...journal article 2023
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Kang, Li (author), Haasler, Sina (author), Mucci, Maíra (author), Korving, Leon (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Prot, T.J.F. (author), Waajen, Guido (author), Lürling, Miquel (author)The eutrophic Bouvigne pond (Breda, The Netherlands) regularly suffers from cyanobacterial blooms. To improve the water quality, the external nutrient loading and the nutrient release from the pond sediment have to be reduced. An enclosure experiment was performed in the pond between March 9 and July 29, 2020 to compare the efficiency of...journal article 2023
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Yao, Mingchen (author), Zhang, Yue (author), Dai, Zihan (author), Ren, Anran (author), Fang, Jiaxing (author), Li, Xiaoming (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Rose, Joan B. (author), Liu, Gang (author)Premise plumbing plays an essential role in determining the final quality of drinking water consumed by customers. However, little is known about the influences of plumbing configuration on water quality changes. This study selected parallel premise plumbing in the same building with different configurations, i.e., laboratory and toilet...journal article 2023
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Ghosh, D. (author), Kavil, Sarath Pullyottum (author), Arya, Prakash C. (author), Das, Bhaskar (author)Enormous water-logging in ancient abandoned mining shafts of Kolar Gold Fields (KGFs), has largely induced the leaching of sulfide-rich gold minerals contaminating the aquifer system with hazardous elements. Transport of these contaminant has posed threat to the health of the urban population of Kolar township. A detailed survey of borewells,...journal article 2023
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), Velstra, Jouke (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author)Agricultural aquifer storage recovery and transfer (ASTR) stores excess fresh water for later reuse in irrigation. Moreover, water quality improves because chemical pollutants and pathogens will be removed by degradation and attachment to the aquifer material. The source water may contain the bacterial plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum...journal article 2023
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Kim, J. (author), Jonoski, Andreja (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Goethals, Peter L. M. (author)The World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provide guidelines on the maximum levels of nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N) contained in drinking water since excess nitrate ingestion may harm human health. Thus, monitoring and controlling the NO3-N concentration is of paramount importance, especially in sources of...journal article 2023
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Pramana, K.E.R. (author), Ertsen, M.W. (author)In the first decade of the 21st century, a water harvesting approach based on contour trenches—ditches to catch runoff—from Kenya was proposed as groundwater recharge technology in a semi-arid area in Ninh Phuoc district, Vietnam. In order to modify this solutions to tackle water scarcity, hydrological conditions at the site needed to be known....journal article 2022
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Kruisdijk, E. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)Irrigation with surface water carrying plant pathogens poses a risk for agriculture. Managed aquifer recharge enhances fresh water availability while simultaneously it may reduce the risk of plant diseases by removal of pathogens during aquifer passage. We compared the transport of three plant pathogenic bacteria with Escherichia coli WR1 as...journal article 2022
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Kloosterman, Ritsche Anne (author), Herder, P.M. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Long term uncertainties in combination with long lifetime of assets of drinking water infrastructures (DWIs) and changing expectations of stakeholders make strategic decisions in drinking water infrastructures (DWIs) complex. A framework with building blocks and design spaces was developed to support these decisions. Building blocks, divided in...journal article 2022
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van der Meulen, E. S. (author), van Oel, P. R. (author), Rijnaarts, H. H.M. (author), Sutton, N. B. (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)Urban surface waters are used in many different ways. With increasing demand for human use functions, improved insight is required into the functional quality of these waters. A method to assess this functional quality in a systematic way and for a wide variety of use functions is not available. We propose to use suitability indices (SIs) for...journal article 2022
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Li, Jun (author), Ren, Anran (author), van der Mark, Ed (author), Liu, G. (author)Drinking water quality deteriorates from treatment plant to customer taps, especially in the plumbing system. There is no direct evidence about what the differences are contributed by plumbing system. This study compared the water quality in the water main and at customer tap by preparing a sampling tap on the water main. The biomass was...journal article 2022
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Aydin, B.E. (author), Oude Essink, Gualbert H.P. (author), Delsman, Joost R. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Abraham, E. (author)A significant increase in surface water salinization in low-lying deltas is expected globally due to saline groundwater exfiltration driven by rising sea levels and decreasing freshwater availability. Sustaining fresh water-dependent agriculture in such areas will entail an increased demand for fresh water flushing. Unfortunately, the...journal article 2022
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Zheng, Zixuan (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Bi, Weiwei (author), Du, Jiawen (author), Duan, Huan-Feng (author), Savić, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)An early contamination warning system with deployed water quality sensors is often used to enhance the safety of a water distribution system (WDS). While algorithms have been developed to select an optimal water quality sensor placement strategy (WQSPS) for WDSs, many of them do not account for the influences caused by future uncertainties,...journal article 2022
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Ji, Yiran (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Du, Jiawen (author), Huang, Yuan (author), Bi, Weiwei (author), Duan, Huan Feng (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Most of the contamination source localization methods for water distribution systems (WDSs) assume the availability of accurate water quality models and multi-parameter online sensors, which are often out of reach of many water utilities. To address this, a novel manual grab-sampling method (MGSM) is developed to effectively and efficiently...journal article 2022
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Moerman, Andreas (author), van Bel, Nikki (author), Oesterholt, Frank (author), de Laat, Vincent (author), Blokker, E.J.M. (author)Climate change demands for sustainable options for heating and cooling of buildings. Low-temperature thermal energy can be abstracted from the drinking water distribution system (DWDS); this is called thermal energy from drinking water (TED). The possible use of TED as a secondary function of the DWDS raises the question whether this...book chapter 2022