Scarcity refers to not having enough of what one needs. This phenomenon has shaped individuals´ life since ancient times, nowadays ranging from daily-life scarcity cues in shopping scenarios to the planet's resources scarcity to meet the world´s consumer demand. Because of this ubiquity of...

The growing water deficit in transboundary river basins of Central Asia determines the need to develop water facilities, promote water saving and ensure sound water management in all sectors of the economy, which requires significant long-term investment. To achieve sustainable development of...

The Nile as a transboundary river attracts worldwide attention. 85% of the river originates in Ethiopia. However, Ethiopia has historically been excluded from using this resource for development purposes. Since 2011, Ethiopia has been building a dam on the Blue Nile. However, downstream...

Nitrogen pollution in medium-to-small rivers often brings about eutrophication to lakes. In this work, a composite technique consisting of retention pond (RP)-subsurface flow constructed wetland (SFCW)-stabilization pond (SP) was proposed in the present study. Results showed that RP-SFCW-SP can...

Low-polluted waters treated by traditional constructed wetlands (CWs) were usually difficult especially because of restricted available land use. A novel hybrid CWs could be applied to remediate low-polluted rivers, which can realize steps complementary to each other that exploit the specific...

Monitoring of microalgae in source water has become more important than ever, especially due to worsening eutrophication as well as global warming and an increase in potentially toxic cyanobacterial bloom formation. This research investigated using longer cuvette pathlengths (50-and 100-mm) and...

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are a concern in aquatic environments due to possible adverse effects on the environment and humans. This study assessed the occurrence and mass flows of CECs in Sweden’s three largest lakes and 24 associated rivers. The occurrence and distribution of...