Category: Water, Hydrology & Resources
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Earth observation data may improve flood forecasting
This research indicates that Earth Observation data can help enhance river flood monitoring and forecasting, especially where ground-based data are sparse.
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SWAT review links land use change and climate impacts in agricultural watersheds
This research indicates that SWAT studies in developing-country agricultural watersheds commonly report satisfactory model performance, strong links between land use and hydrological change, and the usefulness of combined best management practices.
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Human water management strongly alters streamflow in parts of the Mississippi Basin
This research indicates that reservoir operation and irrigation substantially modify streamflow in the Missouri and Arkansas-White-Red regions, and that the authors identified data and modeling gaps that affect streamflow simulation.
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Mega-floods increased nutrient loads in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
This research indicates that a 2022 to 2023 mega-flood in the southern Murray-Darling Basin carried a large share of the study period’s water flow and nutrient export, with delayed nutrient release from floodplains in downstream areas.
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China forestation is linked to hydrologic trade-offs
This research indicates that large-scale forestation in China has increased evapotranspiration and carbon sequestration, reduced total water yield and soil erosion, and created trade-offs among ecosystem services.
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Cropland affects tropical Africa’s land surface temperature differently by day and night
This research indicates that croplands cool the surface at night across tropical Africa, while their daytime effects vary with hydroclimatic conditions and can either cool or warm the surface.
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Nairobi Expressway highlights tensions with matatu mobility
This research indicates that the Nairobi Expressway has created new tensions between Chinese-backed formal infrastructure and Nairobi’s matatu system, an indigenous informal transport network.
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Forecasting systems and plans improved drought response timing
This research indicates that organisations with forecasting systems or Drought Management Plans responded earlier and rated their actions as more effective during the 2022 European drought.
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Women-led movements linked river protection with culture, science, and law
This research indicates that women-led movements in Quito, Ecuador combine cultural, scientific, and legal strategies to address severe river contamination and seek protection for polluted rivers under the Rights of Nature paradigm.
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Socio-natural resilience shapes hydrosocial territory changes in the Yangtze program
This research indicates that the Great Yangtze River Protection Programme reconfigures hydrosocial territories through socio-natural resilience, power dynamics, and three capacities: absorptive, adaptive, and transformative.
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