Design of a Solar Powered Precision Irrigation System. by Othieno John Wangara

“…Irrigation generally is the controlled application of water for agricultural purposes. Globally, 70% of water use is applied in irrigation of crops, making irrigation the largest consumptive user of fresh water. …”
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Simulation and explanatory analysis of dissolved oxygen dynamics in Lake Ulansuhai, China by Fan Zhang, Xiaohong Shi, Shengnan Zhao, Ruonan Hao, Biao Sun, Guohua Li, Shihuan Wang, Hao Zhang

“…They represent the optimal hybrid models for the open-water and ice-covered periods, respectively. The SHAP analysis showed that water temperature, blue-green algae, pH, turbidity, electrical conductivity, and chlorophyll.a exhibited significant importance in the WT-RF model, in that order. …”
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Monthly Optimal Reservoirs Operation for Multicrop Deficit Irrigation under Fuzzy Stochastic Uncertainties by Liudong Zhang, Ping Guo, Shiqi Fang, Mo Li

“…An uncertain monthly reservoirs operation and multicrop deficit irrigation model was proposed under conjunctive use of underground and surface water for water resources optimization management. …”
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Testing the Key Performance of Mobile Flood Protection System by Shoukai Chen, Huimin Li, Lei Guo, Lunyan Wang, Yongchao Cao

“…The leakage accelerates when the water level exceeds 1.5 m, thus registering 300 L/h at the 1.7 m level. …”
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« Le Creusot n’a pas d’eau ». Tensions entre développement économique et capital environnemental sur le temps long by Sandrine Petit

“…I distinguish three moments of water socio-natural and technology assemblage. In the 19th century, water missed for the blast furnaces of Creusot and the engineers conceived projects for routing water to industry and inhabitants. …”
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Numerical Simulation on the Seepage Properties of Soil-Rock Mixture by Ning Zhao, Yingchao Wang, Bo Meng, Ning Luo

“…To reveal the mechanism of water inrush in a fault tunnel and study the influence of different structures on the seepage process, a filling structure composed of a soil skeleton (fixed particles), a movable particles phase, and a water phase is constructed to simulate the rock mass broken by the fault. …”
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Research on the Strength Prediction Model of Softened Mudstone Based on Triaxial Compressive Test of Rock by Kai Yun, Yongquan Zhu, Renyuan Wang, Zhichun Fang

“…Mudstone is highly sensitive to water. When it comes into contact with water, the softening phenomena such as the decrease of strength and the increase of deformation are prominent. …”
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B3LYP Study on Reduction Mechanisms from O2 to H2O at the Catalytic Sites of Fully Reduced and Mixed-Valence Bovine Cytochrome 𝑐 Oxidases by Yasunori Yoshioka, Masaki Mitani

“…The MV C𝑐O catalyses reduction to produce one water molecule, while the FR C𝑐O catalyses to produce two water molecules. …”
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Hydrogeochemical Evaluation of Groundwater Quality and Its Applicability for Various Purposes in the Drought-Prone Konso Zone, Rift Valley, Southern Ethiopia by Abel Abebe, Muralitharan Jothimani, Gosaye Berhanu

“…The evaluation of water quality involved the utilization of both groundwater quality and irrigation water quality indices. …”
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Land Use Changes and Their Effects on the Value of Ecosystem Services in the Small Sanjiang Plain in China by Jing Chen, Bo-Ming Sun, Dan Chen, Xin Wu, Long-Zhu Guo, Gang Wang

“…The small Sanjiang plain is one of the most important commodity grain production bases and the largest fresh water wetland in China. Due to the rapid expansion of agricultural activities in the past 30 years, the contradiction between economic development and the loss of ecosystem services has become an issue of increasing concern in the area. …”
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Potential of Controlled Irrigation and Drainage for Reducing Nitrogen Emission from Rice Paddies in Southern China by Guang-cheng Shao, Ming-hui Wang, Shuang-en Yu, Na Liu, Meng-hua Xiao, Min Yuan

“…Results showed that fertilization could significantly increase the concentration of NH4+-N and TN in surface water but had a little influence on NO3--N. The concentrations of NH4+-N and NO3--N in surface water increased at first and then decreased after fertilization, while the concentrations of NH4+-N and TN in groundwater kept on being relatively stable. …”
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Influence of the Three Gorges Reservoir Impoundment on Xiannvshan Fault Activity by Zhang Jiayu, Zhang Lili, Zhang Yaowen, Yao Yunsheng, Li Haoran, Dai Yiming, Wang Renlong, Hu Caixiong

“…By examining the correlation between reservoir water levels and earthquake frequency, the relationship between seismicity along the Xiannvshan fault and water level is analyzed. …”
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Application of IoT and Cloud Computing in Automation of Agriculture Irrigation by Khongdet Phasinam, Thanwamas Kassanuk, Priyanka P. Shinde, Chetan M. Thakar, Dilip Kumar Sharma, Md. Khaja Mohiddin, Abdul Wahab Rahmani

“…All living things, including plants, animals, and humans, need water in order to live. Even though the world has a lot of water, only about 1% of it is fresh and usable. …”
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Aqueous Nanofluid as a Two-Phase Coolant for PWR by Pavel N. Alekseev, Yury M. Semchenkov, Alexander L. Shimkevich

“…Density fluctuations in liquid water consist of two topological kinds of instant molecular clusters. …”
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Characteristics of the macroinvertebrate community structure and their habitat suitability conditions in the Chishui River by Xinyu Li, Long Yan, Xu Zhi, Peng Hu, Chongju Shang, Baolong Zhao

“…Caridina favor deeper waters, low flow velocities, and larger substrate particles. …”
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Drought characteristics and propagation under anthropogenic impacts: A regional-scale modelling analysis in four Large Basins of China by Haoran Hao, Ningpeng Dong, Mingxiang Yang, Xin Huang, Hejia Wang, Hao Wang

“…Study focus: Understanding the drought evolution under changing environment is crucial to sustainable water management, especially for China where there are increasing anthropogenic activities. …”
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The Research and Mechanism of Extracting Vitamin B6 Using Aqueous Two-Phase Systems by Changyu Lu, Luning Gao, Aibing Chen, Duo Li, Yahong Zhou

“…The aim of this work is to investigate the quaternary systems which contain (polyethylene glycol/isopropyl alcohol) + ethanol + salt (Na2SO4/Na2CO3) + water to understand their liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) and salting-out ability and apply them to definite uses. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of multiple time scale precipitation in Yellow River Basin based on Köppen-Geiger Trend Indicator System by Hao Ke, Wenzhuo Wang, Zengchuan Dong, Xinhua Zhu, Zhuozheng Li, Chao Lü, Dawei Jin, Weilin Liu

“…Climate zones with decreasing annual precipitation also show greater variability in monthly precipitation, facing the dual challenges of decreasing water resources and extreme precipitation events.…”
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Corrosion Characteristics of Anchor Cables in Electrolytic Corrosion Test and the Applicability of the Test Method in Study of Anchor Cable Corrosion by Tao Yin, Xingsong Sun, Yujie Wang, Yufei Zhao, Shuangjing Wang, Lipeng Liu, Hongjie Chen

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Spatiotemporal evolution of ecological vulnerability on the Loess Plateau by Xianqi Zhang, Yupeng Zheng, Yang Yang, He Ren, Jiawen Liu

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