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The oversupply of water during the floods and the low soil surface levels determine the difficult ecological, economic, and demographic conditions. It then leads to using agricultural land of different types and intensities and various methods of regulating the water regime: summer polders. Human activity has significantly impacted the ecological processes of the floodplains of the Svete floodplain with extensive amelioration works that have significantly altered the appearance of a natural park. The total area of...

The main purpose of the research was to create a comprehensive methodology to assess, predict and prevent the consequences of the negative impact of water-reservoirs on the environment, provide the safety of population and infrastructure; to find a way allowing jointly realize the interests of hydropower and coast protection. To achieve this goal, the following methods were used: full-scale experiment, field-expedition surveys on operating reservoirs, informational analysis, mathematical methods of least squares, ...

The inhabitants produce the sump waters and accumulate temporarily in the sumps. This is sewage that must be treated before it is discharged to surface waters. Slovak legislation does not allow the discharge of such waters into the soil. The possibilities of sump water treatment are given by the water management equipment of the given locality where sewage water is produced. The most common treatment method is transported at municipal wastewater treatment plants, which are, however, largely congested. In many case...

In a climate change scenario, natural disasters as wildfires and their consequences are expected to increase. Besides the loss of vegetation, wildfires have severe effects over mountain environments, frequently affecting slope stability and eventually provoking further economic losses and casualties. The risen probability of flash flooding and debris flow is recognized to depend on a modification of the soil hydrological properties, in particular of the soil infiltration capacity, in burnt terrains. Past studies i...

Climate change is the most pronounced in the last thirty years. In the world, but also in Slovakia, there are extreme temperatures and frequent periods of drought alternating with torrential precipitation. Neither of these two options is suitable for the country. The aim of this article was to determine the distribution of precipitation in the period 1991- 2020. Using the Mann-Kendall trend analysis, it was determined a statistically significant increase or decrease in precipitation in individual months of the yea...

In connection with the publication of the new European directive for drinking water, some new indicators of drinking water quality from the category of micropollutants have been introduced, which will have to be eliminated during the production of drinking water. The described research focused on selected progressive technologies applicable in water treatment regarding the removal of micropollutants. It is expected that for the elimination of other micropollutants it will be possible to use existing technologies u...

The unique lure of the America Cup Yachting race and the generous (read lavish) resources allocated to the research of the best ratio between design and performance in its history-loaded J-Class have defined some of the most spectacular ocean ships of the last hundred years. As a software modelling experiment, we have chosen to re-imagine an engineering journey, by redrawing with contemporary tools a graceful design of the 1930s: the Ranger F yacht that became the Lionheart vessel in 2010, after more than seven de...

Reservoir sedimentation is the gradual accumulation of the incoming sediment load from a river. With the increasing inappropriate usage of agricultural land, the amount of sediment is becoming larger due to erosion. This undesired outcome is supported by changing hydrological and climatological conditions within a river basin. Climate change has wide effects on all processes within the water cycle, which directly affects water resources. Water management in the future must be adapted for oncoming extremes accompan...

Nowadays, remote sensing techniques play an important role in the rapid acquisition of a large amount of spatial environmental data. The development of sensors in the last decade has led to the development of Earth observation satellite missions, e.g., Sentinel, PlanetScope. Numerous machine learning and deep learning methods are used in nowadays research to classify satellite imagery to enable rapid environmental mapping (e.g., land cover and land use, water bodies). Posidonia oceanica is considered the most impo...

Soil waterlogging due to excess moisture resulting in hypoxic soil conditions can have detrimental effect on development of many dryland plants growing in locations with temporary water logged soils. Oxygen stress in hypoxic soils can lead to decrease root water uptake and transpiration compared to well aerated soil conditions. In turn reduction of transpiration have a positive effect on soil water budget facilitating the preservation of waterlogged state of the soil. We investigate this phenomenon in a greenhouse...

The safety of navigation and life in the risk areas adjacent to the coastal area, represent the central objective of the paper and meet the provisions of the European directive "in force." In this context, for defining the geometry of the autonomous modular system used as physical system for marking the fairway, mathematical prediction models were developed. The prediction of phenomena and functional characteristics for autonomous modular system was possible by using a specialized software, where the calculation c...

In recent years, maritime transport in the Black Sea area, especially along the maritime transport routes that cross this area, has seen a considerable increase compared to previous years. However, navigation takes place not only in ports in Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and Bulgaria but also outside the Black Sea via Turkish straits, connecting with international routes. Maritime transport consists of two main components: passenger transport and freight transport, both components being directly affec...

When considering the (sub)region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and its position in the global economy in relative terms represented by trade openness, the European Union (EU) members from the CEE (sub)region tend to match or even exceed the EU average and EU membership underlines their potential. Recently, environmental concerns have become prominent in international trade and in the framework of its external relations the EU seeks to boost its ambition of a global player. Our paper is oriented on the econom...

The main goal of presented study is a demonstration of technological approach to determine the water resources of surface water bodies, using a sparse hydrological monitoring network not covering many of them. Resource of the water body is a flow formed in the catchment area above the studied one including the additional inflow in the frame of the same water body. Practically the flow is changing in each sector of the water body but average annual resources are specified at the final section. The water resources f...

During development, flows are formed within the route and gradient conditions by trough-forming processes. Sensitive changes of the landscape and interventions in the water flows caused mainly in the last century in Czechia and the pressure of agricultural management are the cause of major changes in flows and more frequent occurrences of hydrological extremes. These phenomena cause problems in the form of migration permeability, higher pollution concentrations or higher water temperatures. The aim of the paper wa...

One of the ways to manage drought is to use optimization when managing the storage function of reservoirs. Optimizing reservoir management itself requires inflow forecasts. A lot of forecasting models have been created in the world, which according to many authors can be used for the given purpose. The models themselves are generally assessed according to classical criteria. The article therefore attempts to determine whether the quality of the forecast model for the mentioned application can be assessed as a whol...

The population and economy growth in the past years, and subsequently the increased demand for freshwater, led to an increased pressure on water resources. The quality of surface water is affected by anthropogenic factors, such as: domestic sewage, industrial activities, agricultural activities, recreational activities, land use change, urbanization. Therefore, the impact on surface water vulnerability is higher in large urban areas or in urban areas with intense touristic activities. The analysis of water vulnera...

Berkovitsa is a small town located in Berkovitsa Mountain. The town is situated in an area with a dense hydrographic network but still encounters difficulties in water supply. The purpose of the study is to make an analysis of changes in water demand in the town of Berkovitsa, assessed by the Water Stress Index. The water supply in the municipality of Berkovitsa is taken care of by the operator "ViK Berkovitsa" EOOD. The separate territory of ViK Berkovitsa EOOD consists of a total of six different sized water sup...

The Cri?ul-Alb River springs from the Apuseni mountains, and its course crosses many rural and urban towns. In the Cri?ul Alb hollow, there are several tributaries that have a significant contribution to the volume and water flow of the Cri?ul Alb River. Due to the abundant precipitation combined with the melting of the snow during the spring period, high levels of water flow are created, endangering human settlements and other goods isolated by their flooding. The aim of the paper was to present a topographic stu...

Using aerial vehicles without pilot (UAV-unmanned aerial vehicle) or Drone has seen a rapid development, over the last decade, in order to obtain spatial information of the Earth's surface. This scientific paper was realized for the Hydrotechnical Node of Costei, from Timis County and has as purpose the processing of aerial images, obtained from a Phantom4 Pro device, which is capable to capture video at 4K resolution at 30 frames per second and Full HD 1080p at 120 frames per second for a slow motion with a Sony ...

Adsorption is a treatment process based on accumulation of the adsorbate (pollutant) on the adsorbent surface that has been successful used for the optimization of wastewater treatment plant effluents cleaning. This work will present the main experimental results for the removal of naproxen from water by adsorption using activated carbon obtained from olive stones. Four types of activated carbon material were prepared from olive stones. The batch method was applied to experimentally measure the equilibrium adsorpt...

The climate change facing humanity requires two major and immediate solutions: the need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the one hand, and on the other hand the need to adapt to the effects of climate change, given that these effects are already visible and unavoidable due to the inertia of the climate system. Romania is vulnerable to a number of natural climate and geological dangers: floods, droughts, extreme temperatures, the western part of the country registering over time some devastating fl...

The last several decades, the climate change, as one of the most serious environmental issues, has become a widely spread topic not only to individuals, but the whole international community. Weather extremities, such as tropical days, summer heat waves, switching of periods of extreme precipitation with periods of drought causing the decrease of water reserve capacities cannot simply be overlooked. Due to alarming climate situation, especially in urban zones, the adaptive measures are much needed, even necessary....

Combined sewerage is the most widespread method of wastewater management in the world. Sewage and rainwater are discharged through a combined piping system, which affects overloading the sewer networks during extreme rains. This method of wastewater disposal is the oldest type of sewerage. At present, this method is described as less suitable in opposite to rather on the construction of a divided sewerage system, where wastewater and rainwater flow through separate pipes. The main disadvantage of the combined sewe...

Hydrological modeling is the conventional approach to simulate, evaluate, forecast, and react to floods. However, the development and validation of these models are more challenging where the monitoring stations are limited, unevenly distributed, and particularly scarce in many developing countries. Alternatively, satellite images allow detecting the multi-temporal flood extent over large horizontal areas with a cost advantage for hydrological calibration and validation. Many approaches have been explored to disti...

During the last decades the extreme hydrometeorological events increased. Respectively the needs for more accurate estimation of the precipitation amounts have increased. One of the opportunities to get denser precipitation data in space and time is through the remote-sensing. Satellite-based products allow obtaining spatially distributed hydrologic variables and could be very useful in the modeling of the elements of the hydrological cycle. A big variety of hydrological models exist nowadays. In this study the fu...

Harmful substances like heavy metals are very important group of pollutants which can cause considerable detriment to the environment if they exceed certain concentrations. The aim of this study is to define the concentrations of Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, As, Zn, Cd and Ni in the waters of the Rivers Pirdopska and Medetska, tributaries of the Topolnitsa River, Bulgaria for the period 2015-2019. In the analysis of the heavy metal content Water Quality Index (Canada), as well as statistical and graphical methods were applied....

Waste treatment is considered one of the critical environmental issues. Waste should be understood not only as a source of pollution but as a raw material. Nevertheless, we need well-sorted waste for recovery. Separate collection of municipal waste is an activity in which components of municipal waste are separated. It is based on the conscious activity of citizens, who primarily sort the relevant raw materials. At present, the citizen is obliged to sort waste by law in Slovakia, and the municipality is obliged to...

Combined sewer are among the most important objects of a unified sewerage network and therefore high requirements are placed on these objects, whether from hydraulic, hydrological, hygienic or constructional requirements. Their main function, ie hydraulic, is to divide the inflow at the time of torrential rains into a flow continuing to the WWTP and a flow that is relieved from the OK to the recipient. Another important function of relief chambers is related to pollution. Some chamber designs can successfully capt...

Water management in karst areas is a challenge as the regime of waters is generally characterized by substantial temporal variability. Water balance analysis is a necessary part of hydrogeological research. The aim of the paper is to study specific features of the water regime and balance of karst springs from the Lovech-Tarnovo karst basin, as well as to evaluate their recharge area. For monthly water balance calculations, the software WaterbalANce was used that is based on the Thornthwaite–Mather method. In addi...

The Volga River is today a cascade of lowland reservoirs. This allows flood prevention, river-sea navigation and hydropower generation. There are also disadvantages, such as the flooding of fertile floodplain lands, a decrease in water quality and drastic algal blooms in the summer season. Due to the problems triggered by the current system, alternative solutions have been proposed that include a decrease in the amount of water stored and a reduction in energy production being, which can be compensated with floati...

In studying WRS that belong to complex probability systems, it is necessary first to make a mathematical description of the input process of the system - the process of changing the river flow. The use of the available series, which cover several decades of years (in Bulgaria about 30-70 years), cannot reflect the alternation of sequences of high-water and low-water years and the great diversity of the intra-annual runoff distribution, which characterizes the different water years. For these reasons, studies based...

The objective of the study is to calculate with highest reliability the values of the maximum runoff with different probabilities in Nishava catchment, in relation to elaboration of flood risk maps for Godech town. To calculate the maximum runoff of the Nishava catchment, the regionalization method was applied. This method was developed in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany and is widely used in practice. It is based on eight characteristics and factors of catchment areas and river systems: catchment area; ur...

The interaction between groundwater and surface water is a complex process that plays an important role in the functioning of the ecosystems, the understanding of this interaction being significant for the management and protection of water resources. Moreover, this interaction can affect the water quality due to the contaminants transfer between river and aquifer. The water movement within this particular environment can be influenced by geology, topography, land use, climate, etc., being an essential component o...

Lengthening periods between precipitation have been recorded and we can see a change in the distribution of rain over time. An increased number of these phenomena has also been confirmed by the IPCC. Due to this change in the redistribution of rainwater and the impact of high urbanization, sewerage systems are affected. The problem of a high number of impermeable areas is also associated with a high degree of urbanization. During torrential rains in combination with impermeable surfaces, the time of outflow into t...

The article is about three hydrological river routing models (RRM) implemented in Bulgaria, coupled to a land surface model (LSM), mainly for flood forecasting purpose. For the evaluation of the three RRMs the authors use a river basin of Mediterranean climate - the Varbitsa River with catchment area of 1200 km2. The river is prone to dangerous flash floods because of their fast propagation. LSM SURFEX (Surface Externalisee) but formally the integrated part ISBA (Interface Soil Biosphere Atmosphere) is used to com...

The paper presents a calculation of an annual balance between the water inflow and discharge in the Cheboksary hydrosystem reservoir. The calculation is implemented in MathCad. The calculation is based on the principle of identifying the main areas of water use and water consumption, including hydroenegetics, water transport, drinking and industrial water supply, fishery, and recreation. Characteristics of water inflow and discharge by the Cheboksary hydrosystem are calculated. A positive annual balance of the wat...

Glina Station is a project for the treatment of wastewater from the sewerage of Bucharest. The sewerage of the entire city has always flowed into the Dambovita River. Currently, only partially Stage I is carried out, through which the mechanical treatment of about 60% of the city's wastewater is carried out. The paper presents a solution for biological pretreatment of wastewater to validate the use of ultraviolet waves for biological disinfection but also for the treatment of specific non-synthetic pollutants from...

If the place hydrogeological conditions are uniform (invariable aquifer transmissivity, no impact of hydrogeological network) then the quarry depression cone and the pumping rate for the quarry draining can be obtained by using analytical methods. The dolomite aquifer at the Iecava district in Latvia included large impervious areas. Due to this fact, appliance of analytical methods cannot give the right depression cone. The local hydrogeological model (HM) was applied for obtaining the depression cone of the dolom...

The article analyzes the need of a suitable velocity field creation in the cross section profile of the fish pass, which would generate velocity variability for the occurring ichthyofauna with different swimming abilities. In this way, is not only the condition for the maximum vertical velocity fulfilled, but also parts of the profile with slow-flowing water in the bank zone are formed. There are also others recommendations as top width of the water level, doped discharge or recommended longitudinal slope of the f...

Floods are natural phenomena which cannot be prevented. In order to avoid and reduce the adverse impacts of floods for human health, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activity it is important to provide flood risk management plans. Development of flood risk management plans under Directive 2007/60/EC are elements of integrated river basin management. For the implementation of Directive 2007/60 / EC, Member States need to carry out a preliminary flood risk assessment based on available or readily deri...

The devastating impact of floods in the past years triggered the awareness and interest regarding the need of effective flood risk management and improved strategies. The spatial distribution of the elements at risk, which are represented by land use inventories, is an important factor that influence the cost associated with floods, the rapid urbanization leading to an increased flood exposure and vulnerability. The land use planning can be a useful tool for flood damage mitigation and must be taken into account i...

One of the most important components of monitoring any object is to determine the degree of its pollution. Current and accurate information on the quality of water bodies and soils is the basis for regulating the activities of water users and land users, ensuring measures for the rational use of natural resources, informing the relevant authorities and the population about possible dangerous situations. Surface waters, like agricultural households, are strategic renewable natural resources of Ukraine. A characteri...

Acid tar lagoons (ATLs) are a common source of groundwater pollution in industrialized countries worldwide. Even after recultivation, the spatial extent of the residual environmental pollution from such lagoons is often unknown, as the monitoring of groundwater is mostly done in discrete locations ? monitoring wells. Shallow surface geophysical methods, such as ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) are often used in monitoring groundwater and soil contamination. The greatest va...

This report is a case study on use of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) alongside other methods to have a better understanding of surface depressions and their formation in gypsum karst region of Latvia. Study territory is well known gypsum karst region. It is a relatively flat area with up to 5m thick Quaternary cover overlaying Upper Devonian Salaspils Formation gypsum sediments. Previous studies have identified several sinkhole formations in the area. Remote sensing methods like analysis of Digital Elevat...

The lack of direct measurements (the most accurate way to determine characteristic high flows) has posed the need to look for other hydrological methods that are sufficiently reliable. The regionalization is an indirect hydrological approach for specific high flow determination used at ungauged river stretches. Usually the hydro-technical constructions or other important economic activities connected to the water use are the main reason necessitating the study of characteristic high water on rivers. For the purpos...

Droughts are a natural phenomenon with a fairly high frequency worldwide. Their evolution generates, through the water deficit, a state of vulnerability at the level of natural and social components. In areas dependent on groundwater resources this vulnerability is transformed in a high social and economic risk. In this situation can be included the eastern part of Romania where over 50% of the population, predominantly in rural areas, is supplied with groundwater. In order to highlight the negative effects of a n...

The researches were carried out in a catchment with a pronounced torrential character and flood risk (Slanic catchment) located in the Siret catchment, Romania. Precipitation data were available from the monitoring network of the Siret Water Basin Administration, from 2019 and 2020; given their continuity they were considered suitable to allow hydrological modeling. A hydrological modeling was followed, that simulates the rain-drainage processes of the water systems, given that in the studied catchment there are a...

The increasing world population demand for bioeconomy products intensify the nitrogen cycle and encourage eutrophication in water bodies. Global climate change and land use transformation have a significant impact on the hydrological cycle. Integrated water management in the catchment area is a sustainable solution for catchment area development and balancing economic and environmental interests. The aim of this study is to develop an optimization model for sustainable lake management. The case study is done in eu...

The article is dedicated to the study of hydrometeorological parameters on a stationary oceanographic platform in the Black Sea. The research paper contains the description developed in the Marine Hydrophysical Institute’s complex for measuring meteorological parameters (wave height, wind speed and direction, free-air and sea temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity). The measurements were carried out on a stationary oceanographic platform located in the coastal zone of the southern coast of Crimea at a...