Recent studies borne in the field of the New Economy of Water or the New Culture of Water introduce a new perspective of water management that conceive this resource as an ecosocial asset and not just as a public good submitted to criteria of mercantile transactions. These studies suggest a set...

Groundwater withdrawals can reduce aquifer-to-stream flow and induce stream-to-aquifer flow. These effects involve potential threats over surface water and groundwater quantity and quality. As a result, the description of stream-aquifer flow in space and time is of high interest for water...

Stream nitrate nitrogen exports are an important indicator of agricultural impacts on aquatic health in catchments. Quantitative assessment of factors and processes affecting stream nitrate loadings is complex because of the large number of causal factors and processes, such as weather and...

Physical hydronomics (PH) is the specific application of thermodynamics that physically characterizes the governance of water bodies, i.e., the Water Framework Directive (WFD) for European Union citizens. In this paper, calculation procedures for the exergy analysis of river basins are developed...