{"title":"Hydrogeochemical characterization of groundwater in mountainous catchment and its suitability for drinking purposes in Irob, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia","authors":"Haile Tadelle Abadi, Tewodros Alemayehu, Berihu Abadi Berhe","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.067","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The primary source of drinking water in Ethiopia's semi-arid mountainous regions is groundwater. The present study aims to assess the hydrogeochemical characteristics of low-grade basement rocks dominated by mountainous catchments. Moreover, it examines the suitability of the groundwater quality for drinking purposes in Irob, Tigray, northern Ethiopia. However, relatively little is known about the water chemistry and groundwater quality of the resources in the area. Fifteen samples of groundwater were collected and examined for ions according to standard procedures. The outcomes were assessed against the World Health Organization (WHO) requirements for water drinking quality. To identify the source of dissolved ions and the process involved, graphic interpretations were applied. The results show that Ca–Mg–SO4–HCO3 and Ca–SO4–HCO3 were the dominant water types. Gibbs plots and ionic ratios reveal that silicate weathering, carbonate dissolution and ion exchange control water chemistry. Furthermore, the findings reveal that 60, 80, 46.67, 46.67, 60, 6.67, 60 and 53.33% of samples are above the safe limits of the WHO for hardness, alkalinity, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, calcium (Ca2+), potassium (K+), bicarbonate (HCO3-) and sulfate (SO42-), respectively. Consequently, the groundwater quality assessment demonstrates that the water sources in lower parts of the catchment are unsuitable for drinking.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":" 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140389487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watershed hydrological responses to land use land cover changes at Bilata watershed, Rift Valley Basin, southern Ethiopia","authors":"M. Beza, Eden Tatek, Mandefro Chala, Alene Moshe","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.066","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Most anthropogenic activities have a profound effect on land cover that affects the water cycle and, ultimately, the availability of water in the watershed. The idea of this study was to evaluate the hydrological response to land use and land cover change in the Bilata watershed. To achieve this objective, supervised land use land cover classification was applied for the years 2000, 2010, and 2020 using ERDAS IMAGINE 2015. The watershed underwent significant land use and land cover changes from 2000 to 2020. There was an abrupt expansion of agricultural land and a reduction of forest. The SWAT model was applied to evaluate the impact of land use and land cover change on hydrological processes. The calibration and validation of the SWAT model showed that the model has performed well in simulating the hydrology of the watershed with a coefficient of determination, Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency, and per cent of bias greater than 0.6 for both calibration and validation. Due to intensive agricultural expansion and settlement, the surface runoff increased from 172 to 259.5 and 265.0 mm in 2000, 2010, and 2020, respectively. The average streamflow increased from 132 to 134 and 150 m3/s between 2000, 2010, and 2020.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"320 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydrological dynamics and water resource availability in the Rift Valley Lakes Basin (Ethiopia), using a WEAP model","authors":"Mulugeta Mohammed, Belete Birhanu, Fentaw Abegaz","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.062","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study aims to assess hydrologic dynamics and the water resource potential of the Rift Valley Lakes Basin (RVLB) in Ethiopia using the Water Evaluation And Planning (WEAP) model. The surface water of the RVLB comprises streamflow and an open water system. The model was configured with 13 catchments and a monthly time series of 1981–2022, to address the spatial variability of rainfall–runoff interaction. Statistical performance indicators were used to evaluate the accuracy of the model in simulating streamflows and the results showed that the coefficient of determination (R2) ranges from 0.82 to 0.93, Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) ranges from 0.68 to 0.86, percentage of bias (PBIAS) ranges from −9.45 to −1.85, standard deviation ratio (RSR) ranges from 0.35 to 0.59, and index of agreement (IA) ranges from 0.62 to 0.84. The available surface water for abstraction is 358 million cubic meters (MCM) available as lake water abstraction and 6,534 MCM as streamflow water, making it a total surface water flow of 6,892 MCM. Considering the temporal distribution of the surface water sources, 67.5% is available in the rainy season, June–October and 32.5% during the dry period, November–May in the basin.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"46 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140236096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Jangra, Ramesh Kumar, Devender Singh, Harish Kumar, J. Kumar, Parvin Kumar, Suresh Kumar
{"title":"Remediation of toluidine blue O dye from aqueous solution using surface functionalized magnetite nanoparticles","authors":"A. Jangra, Ramesh Kumar, Devender Singh, Harish Kumar, J. Kumar, Parvin Kumar, Suresh Kumar","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.063","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 In the current study, tannic acid-functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles have been synthesized using a cost-effective co-precipitation method and subsequently characterized using various instrumentation techniques such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometer, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and thermal gravimetric analyzer. Further, these surface-modified magnetite nanoparticles have been used for the adsorption of toluidine dye from an aqueous solution. The adsorption process was accompanied using batch procedure, and influences of several factors such as adsorbent dose, contact time, pH, temperature, and initial concentration of adsorbate were inspected concurrently. The maximum adsorption capacity of tannic acid-functionalized magnetite nanoparticles was found to be 50.69 mg/g. The adsorption process was observed to follow the Temkin isotherm model, whereas the kinetic study was well described by pseudo-second order. The thermodynamic study revealed the adsorption process to be endothermic and spontaneous in nature with a high degree of freedom between adsorbent and adsorbate. Therefore, the study indicated that the tannic acid-functionalized magnetite nanoparticles have promising adsorption capability and can be used as an excellent adsorbent for the removal of toluidine blue O dye from the aqueous solution.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"16 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140241274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Z. Rahman, A. Juniati, P. Miraj, Herry Trisaputra Zuna, Nicco Plamonia
{"title":"Evaluating consumer insights in water services: perspectives on health benefits, pricing tolerance, and continuous service demand","authors":"H. Z. Rahman, A. Juniati, P. Miraj, Herry Trisaputra Zuna, Nicco Plamonia","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.064","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 This study investigates the relationship between consumers and water services, focusing on the global challenge of providing clean and reliable water. Employing structured questionnaires, the research explores customers’ perceived health benefits, willingness to pay (WTP) for potential price increases, and service expectations. The study, primarily quantitative in nature, gathered data from both customers and non-customers of water services. The findings reveal that customers are more likely to recognize health benefits from water services compared to non-customers, emphasizing the role of health perceptions in service acceptance. A significant majority of respondents showed a willingness to accept modest tariff increases. However, this willingness sharply declines as the proposed increase grows, indicating a clear threshold in consumers’ financial flexibility. Notably, a strong preference for 24-h water service emerged, underscoring the importance of continuous service in consumer satisfaction. Additionally, factors such as water consistency, cleanliness, and pressure were identified as key determinants of service adoption and satisfaction. These insights are crucial for water service providers and regulators, suggesting the need for a balanced approach to pricing, service quality, and continuity. The study highlights the importance of effective communication about the health benefits of water services, offering guidance for enhanced customer engagement, service adoption, and retention strategies.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"6 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140237543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the impact of land use and land cover (LULC) changes on the surface runoff downstream of an ungauged Bontanga watershed in Northern Ghana","authors":"E. Mwanga, Abdul-Ganiyu Shaibu, Zakaria Issaka","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.061","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Anthropogenic activities exacerbated by population growth, demanding land for food production and settlements, have led degradation of the Bontanga watershed. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of land use and land cover (LULC) change on the surface runoff in the Bontanga watershed from 1997 to 2022. LULC change maps for the years 1997, 2002, 2013, and 2022 were generated from Landsat images using ArcGIS, achieving overall accuracies of 92, 91.89, 95.27, and 83.64%, respectively. Surface runoff was estimated using the SCS–CN model. Correlation analysis was employed to identify predominant LULC change classes that impact surface runoff. The agricultural land and built-up area increased by 20.81% and 27.20% causing an increase in the surface runoff by 13.92 and 14.49% from 1997 to 2022. Due to anthropogenic activities, dense forest, grassland, mixed forest and shrub land, mixed shrub and grassland decreased by 20.31, 29.97, 22.51, and 25.58% causing an increase in surface runoff by 14.98, 14.06, 15.78, and 15.05%, respectively. Correlation analysis showed that changes in surface runoff were positively correlated with agricultural land, and mixed forest and shrub and negatively correlated with mixed shrub and grassland, and grassland.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"15 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Douglas John Lumley, Dennis Wanninger, Åsa Magnusson, David I'Ons, Lars-Göran Gustafsson
{"title":"Implementing a digital twin for optimized real-time control of Gothenburg's regional sewage system","authors":"Douglas John Lumley, Dennis Wanninger, Åsa Magnusson, David I'Ons, Lars-Göran Gustafsson","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.060","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The emerging challenges facing the City of Gothenburg and surrounding municipalities include the impacts of a variable climate, rapid growth and urbanization, aging infrastructure and changing community values and customer expectations. A digital twin (DT), based on the Future City Flow (FCF) platform, was created for the catchment to address many of these challenges in terms of improved real-time sewerage performance and predictability in the face of storms, improved DT visualization of the regional sewage transport system for operators and greater responsiveness to avoid service interruption. The FCF-based DT provides a sound base for modelling, simulating, forecasting and controlling the catchment. The versatility of the FCF DT makes it useful for gaining insight into catchment dynamics and the simulator can be used to study the effects of different scenarios or changes in the catchment. The predictive control imbedded in the FCF DT recommends setpoints for controlling the catchment that can be used by the operators for decision support or even be directly applied in the control system as model-based predictive control. A DT requires good quality online data from the catchment and, perhaps most importantly, high-quality rain forecasts, especially when prognosing long time horizons.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"25 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140244086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The implication of spatiotemporal rainfall distribution on the estimation of areal rainfall characteristics in Upper Erer Sub-basin, Ethiopia","authors":"Bedasa Abrahim Mummed, Yilma Shiferaw","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The distribution of rainfall is not uniform in various regions of the world. Rainfall study is used to recognize the characteristics, duration, and variability of temporal and spatial rainfall distributions. In Ethiopia, the annual and seasonal rainfall distributions are variable in space and time. This study is focused on the implication of spatiotemporal rainfall distribution on the areal rainfall characteristics evaluation under the Upper Erer Sub-basin, located in Eastern Ethiopia. In the study area, average annual rainfall amount for Dire Dawa, Harar and Haramaya, Girawa, and Gursum stations are found to be 647, 816, 801, 958, and 840 mm with coefficients of variation of 23, 20, 20, 19, and 31%, respectively. However, the rain gauges here are sparsely distributed. The rainfall occurrence and distribution at various gauging stations have been found to vary significantly both temporally and spatially. This spatiotemporal rainfall distribution was assessed using joint probability of rain days approach for the stations. The result indicated joint probability of rain days estimation approach under monthly time step has better performance than daily, decadal, and seasonal data. The joint probability approach is used along with rainfall amount under monthly rainfall for areal rainfall estimation assessment in rainfall–runoff modeling.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140249876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable adsorption of methylene blue (MB) dye using individual and combined ratios of Trigonella foenum-graecum (F) seed galactomannan and Linum usitatissimum (L) seed","authors":"Nikita Singh, Alpa Yadav","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.059","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 This study explores the adsorption of methylene blue (MB) dye from aqueous solution using different forms of fenugreek galactomannan (F) and linseed (L) as an adsorbent. The characterization study of adsorbents reveals the involvement of carboxyl, hydroxyl, and amine groups in MB adsorption taking place on the amorphous, heterogeneous, and porous surface of the adsorbent. Different adsorption parameters were studied and optimized. The results of the study show 86.62, 86.94, 88.04, 88.24, 88.56, and 89.09 of MB dye adsorption with F, L, F + L (1:1), F + L (1:2), F + L (2:1), and F + L (2:2), respectively, under optimized conditions. The optimized conditions for the maximum dye removal include adsorbent dose of 1.2 g, dye concentration of 80 mg/l when contact time of 60 min was applied to the system at a temperature of 40 °C. The isothermal study shows the fitness of the experimental data to the Langmuir isotherm model. Kinetic modeling shows that both physical and chemical interactions are involved in the dye adsorption. The thermodynamic study confirms the spontaneity, endothermicity, and feasibility of the studied process. Overall, the current research involves use of low-cost raw materials for MB dye removal that aids not only in waste management but also in promoting sustainability and preservation of natural resources including air, water and land.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"68 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140251094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the consequences of climate variability in the Wadi Saida watershed, Northwestern Algeria","authors":"Meriem Nadia Dahmani, K. Baba-Hamed, A. Bouanani","doi":"10.2166/wpt.2024.058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.058","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 North Africa is identified as one of the most susceptible regions to the impacts of climate change. With potential consequences for food security, water supply, and extreme weather events, understanding climate variability is of paramount importance. This study delves into the Wadi Saida watershed in the Algerian highlands, a region vulnerable to such changes. The study employs a set of data and analytical tools to assess climate variability in the Wadi Saida watershed. These methods include the standardized precipitation index (SPI), climate moisture index (CMI), the Pettitt test, Bayesian modeling using the LEE and HEGHINIAN methods, and Hubert segmentation. Additionally, statistical tests for rupture detection are applied to identify abrupt changes in the climate data. The application of these methods and statistical tests has yielded noteworthy findings. Firstly, the study highlights climate variability characterized by alternating wet and dry periods. This fluctuation in precipitation and moisture conditions underscores the dynamic nature of the region's climate. Secondly, the study has successfully detected critical rupture points, particularly in the years 2002, 2005, and 2007. These years signify significant shifts in climate patterns and potentially hold the key to understanding the impacts on water resources and environmental stability in the region.","PeriodicalId":510255,"journal":{"name":"Water Practice & Technology","volume":"38 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140252443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}