June 1, 2024
Traversing the waterways
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Water use & management
Integrating data within watershed management and public health
In this Opinion article, as part of our ongoing collection on Watersheds and Health, Lars Hallstrom discusses the critical importance of data in underpinning more integrative policy approaches to watershed management.
Image credit: Lake, Mountains, Alberta by Herman Vyverman, Pixabay
water quality & pollution
Research priorities for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in humanitarian crises: A global prioritisation exercise
Lauren D'Mello-Guyett and colleagues generate consensus-based actionable research priorities for the humanitarian WASH sector.
Image credit: Child, Mask, Hand washing by Nghi Nguyen, Pixabay
water use & management
An invisible water surcharge: Climate warming increases crop water demand in the San Joaquin Valley’s groundwater-dependent irrigated agriculture
Joshua Viers and colleagues find that climate warming increases the San Joaquin Valley's crop water demand.
Image credit: Farm, Agriculture, Irrigation by Joseph Fulgham, Pixabay
water & wastewater treatment
Long-term trial of a community-scale decentralized point-of-use drinking water treatment system
Darren Reynolds and colleagues assess the operation and performance of a community-scale decentralised drinking water treatment system over a 3-year period.
Image credit: Faucet, Fountain, Water Pixabay, Pixabay
Assessing inequalities in urban water security through geospatial analysis
Juliana Marçal and colleagues investigate the spatial heterogeneity of urban water security in relation to differences in inequalities within intra-urban sectors of the city of Campinas in Brazil.
Image credit: Marçal et al., CC BY 4.0
water resources & hydrology
Contemporary and relic waters strongly decoupled in arid alpine environments
Brendan Moran and colleagues present an integrated hydrological analysis of the Dry Andes region, furthering our understanding of the dominant controls on natural water cycles in arid environments.
Image credit: Flamingos, Landscape, Bolivia by Marco Torrazzina, Pixabay
Unregulated drinking water contaminants and adverse birth outcomes in Virginia
Holly Young and colleagues assess whether drinking water contaminants are associated with fetal health outcomes, including low birth weight, term-low birth weight, and preterm birth in Virginia, USA.
Image credit: Young et al., CC BY 4.0
Can crop production intensification through irrigation be sustainable? An ex-ante impact study of the south-central coastal zone of Bangladesh
Image credit: Khan et al., CC BY 4.0
Water resource sustainability: Challenges, opportunities and research gaps in the English-speaking Caribbean Small Island Developing States
Image credit: Island by Elias, Pixabay
Health impacts & sanitation
Norovirus GII wastewater monitoring for epidemiological surveillance
Image credit: Treatment plant wastewater by Michal Jarmoluk, Pixabay
Nitrate in drinking water and pregnancy outcomes: A narrative review of epidemiological evidence and proposed biological mechanisms
Image credit: Water by günter, Pixabay
Safe and Sustainable Water in Cities
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