Water, Volume 3, Issue 2 (June 2011), Pages 445-717 Released

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Water, Volume 3, Issue 2 (June 2011), Pages 445-717 at http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/

Table of Contents:

Michael D. Dettinger, Fred Martin Ralph, Tapash Das, Paul J. Neiman and Daniel R. Cayan
Article: Atmospheric Rivers, Floods and the Water Resources of California
Water 2011, 3(2), 445-478; doi:10.3390/w3020445
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/445/

Lisa J. Lucero, Joel D. Gunn and Vernon L. Scarborough
Article: Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management
Water 2011, 3(2), 479-494; doi:10.3390/w3020479
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/479/

Erick Butler, Yung-Tse Hung, Ruth Yu-Li Yeh and Mohammed Suleiman Al Ahmad
Review: Electrocoagulation in Wastewater Treatment
Water 2011, 3(2), 495-525; doi:10.3390/w3020495
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/495/

Alvaro Calzadilla, Katrin Rehdanz and Richard S.J. Tol
Article: Trade Liberalization and Climate Change: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Impacts on Global Agriculture
Water 2011, 3(2), 526-550; doi:10.3390/w3020526
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/526/

R. O. Abdel Rahman, H. A. Ibrahium and Yung-Tse Hung
Review: Liquid Radioactive Wastes Treatment: A Review
Water 2011, 3(2), 551-565; doi:10.3390/w3020551
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/551/

Daniel J. Bain, Jennifer A. S. Arrigo, Mark B. Green, Brian A. Pellerin and Charles J. Vörösmarty
Communication: Historical Legacies, Information and Contemporary Water Science and Management
Water 2011, 3(2), 566-575; doi:10.3390/w3020566
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/566/

Olga E. Scarpati, Maria I. Botana, Alberto D. Capriolo, Veronica Pohl Schnake, Yamile Puga and Edgardo Salaverry
Article: Present Characteristics of Northwestern Patagonia (Argentina)
Water 2011, 3(2), 576-589; doi:10.3390/w3020576
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/576/

Joe Magner
Article: Tailored Watershed Assessment and Integrated Management (TWAIM): A Systems Thinking Approach
Water 2011, 3(2), 590-603; doi:10.3390/w3020590
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/590/

Manoj Kumar Jha
Article: Evaluating Hydrologic Response of an Agricultural Watershed for Watershed Analysis
Water 2011, 3(2), 604-617; doi:10.3390/w3020604
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/604/

Claudio Cassardo and J. Anthony A. Jones
Editorial: Managing Water in a Changing World
Water 2011, 3(2), 618-628; doi:10.3390/w3020618
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/618/

Yung-Tse Hung, Erick Butler and Ruth Yu-Li Yeh
Review: Chemicals and Allied Products Waste Treatment
Water 2011, 3(2), 629-648; doi:10.3390/w3020629
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/629/

Phil Rowland, Colin Neal, Darren Sleep, Colin Vincent and Paul Scholefield
Article: Chemical Quality Status of Rivers for the Water Framework Directive: A Case Study of Toxic Metals in North West England
Water 2011, 3(2), 649-666; doi:10.3390/w3020650
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/649/

Marko Stenroos and Tapio S. Katko
Article: Managing Water Supply through Joint Regional Municipal Authorities in Finland: Two Comparative Cases
Water 2011, 3(2), 667-681; doi:10.3390/w3020667
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/667/

John Crowther, Danyel I. Hampson, Ian J. Bateman, David Kay, Paulette E. Posen, Carl M. Stapleton and Mark D. Wyer
Article: Generic Modelling of Faecal Indicator Organism Concentrations in the UK
Water 2011, 3(2), 682-701; doi:10.3390/w3020682
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/682/

Ludovico Spinosa, Azize Ayol, Jean-Christophe Baudez, Roberto Canziani, Pavel Jenicek, Angelique Leonard, Wim Rulkens, Guoren Xu and Lex van Dijk
Article: Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Sewage Sludge Management
Water 2011, 3(2), 702-717; doi:10.3390/w3020702
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/702/

End of the issue.

Reverse auctions for stormwater mitigation

Here's a study out of Cincinnati, Ohio where they did a reverse auction to ask people how much they had to be paid to take a rain barrel or rain garden on their property to reduce stormwater runoff in a small watershed. It is a good description of how to do this kind of thing to get people to adopt a new technology/approach, but the report stops short of providing monitoring results (in other words, do these things actually have a measurable effect on runoff in the watershed).

http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/pubs/600r08129/600r08129.htm

Non Point Source Pollution and Stream Health in Urban Areas

New USGS study examines effects of urban development on stream ecosystem health in 9 metropolitan areas across the U.S.

A new USGS study examines effects of urban development on stream ecosystem health. Findings show that aquatic insect communities demonstrate little, if any, initial resistance to low levels of urban
development that were previously thought to be protective of aquatic life. By the time a watershed reaches about 10 percent impervious cover in urban areas, aquatic insect communities are degraded by as much as 33 percent in comparison to aquatic insect communities in forested watersheds.

Comparisons among the nine metropolitan areas show that not all urban streams respond in a similar way. Land cover prior to urbanization can affect how aquatic insects and fish respond to urban development and is important to consider in setting realistic stream restoration goals in urban areas.

The USGS determined the magnitude and pattern of the physical, chemical, and biological response of streams to increasing urbanization and how these responses vary throughout nine metropolitan areas, including Portland, OR; Salt Lake City, UT; Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA; Raleigh, NC; Boston, MA; Denver, CO; Dallas, TX; and Milwaukee, WI.

For more information, including access to USGS reports and video podcasts, please visit http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/urban/

Water, Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2010) now available

The following issue: Water,
Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2010), Pages 1-119 is available at
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/1/

Table of Contents:

Ryan T. Bailey, John W. Jenson and Arne E. Olsen
Article: Estimating the Ground Water Resources of Atoll Islands
Water 2010, 2(1), 1-27; doi:10.3390/w2010001
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/1/1

José González-García, Verónica Sáez, Ignacio Tudela, María Isabel
Díez-Garcia, María Deseada Esclapez and Olivier Louisnard
Review: Sonochemical Treatment of Water Polluted by Chlorinated
Organocompounds. A Review
Water 2010, 2(1), 28-74; doi:10.3390/w2010028
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/1/28

Chrysi Laspidou, Kimon Hadjibiros and Stylianos Gialis
Article: Minimizing the Environmental Impact of Sea Brine Disposal by
Coupling Desalination Plants with Solar Saltworks: A Case Study for Greece
Water 2010, 2(1), 75-84; doi:10.3390/w2010075
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/1/75

Iskandar Abdullaev and Peter P. Mollinga
Article: The Socio-Technical Aspects of Water Management: Emerging Trends
at Grass Roots Level in Uzbekistan
Water 2010, 2(1), 85-100; doi:10.3390/w2010085
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/1/85

Marthe S. de Graaff, Hardy Temmink, Grietje Zeeman and Cees J. N. Buisman
Article: Anaerobic Treatment of Concentrated Black Water in a UASB Reactor
at a Short HRT
Water 2010, 2(1), 101-119; doi:10.3390/w2010101
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/1/101

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