Frontiers in Environmental Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12
Published: Nov. 12, 2024
The
uneven
spatial
distribution
of
water
resources
and
demands
across
the
US
have
motivated
a
wide
range
inter-basin
transfers.
By
redistributing
resources,
Inter-basin
transfer
projects
can
lead
to
specific
environmental
changes
such
as
altered
river
flows,
in
quality,
loss
ecologically
important
habitats,
impacts
which
depend
on
project
scale
management.
Early
were
undertaken
prior
legislation
Since
primary
focus
is
not
these
projects,
they
are
often
documented
historically.
We
provided
comprehensive
inventory
(built,
incomplete,
proposed)
US,
identified
patterns
projects’
characteristics,
analyzed
growing
role
planning
drew
lessons
inform
future
proposals.
categorized
historical
into
three
periods:
1900–1930,
1930–1970,
1970–2020,
analyzing
over
40
km
long
50
MCM/year
using
diverse
sources,
assess
their
development
from
an
perspective.
Results
this
study
show
that
early
mostly
gravity-driven
smaller-in-scale,
grow
require
more
pumping
stations
(energy-intensive)
lift
high
elevations.
California
Colorado
most
active,
transfers
for
first
time.
Federal
agencies
reduced
funding
due
recognition
impacts,
adequately
addressed
projects.
Environmental
crucial
operation
recommend
assessments
climate
change
vulnerability
should
also
be
considered
essential
Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
19(1)
Published: Jan. 8, 2025
Predicting
water
levels
in
glacier-fed
lakes
is
vital
for
resource
management,
flood
forecasting,
and
ecological
balance.
This
study
examines
the
predictive
capacity
of
multiple
climate
factors
affecting
Blue
Moon
Lake
Valley,
fed
by
Baishui
River
glacier
on
Yulong
Snow
Mountain.
The
introduces
a
novel
quad-meta
(QM)
ensemble
model
that
integrates
outputs
from
four
machine
learning
models
–
extreme
gradient
boosting
(XGB),
random
forest
(RF),
(GBM),
decision
tree
(DT)
through
meta-learning
to
improve
prediction
accuracy
under
complex
environmental
conditions.
High-frequency
depth
data,
recorded
every
five
minutes
using
an
RBR
logger,
alongside
variables
such
as
temperature,
wind
speed,
humidity,
evaporation,
solar
radiation,
rainfall,
were
analyzed.
Temperature
was
identified
most
significant
factor
influencing
levels,
with
importance
score
15.69,
followed
atmospheric
pressure
(14.08)
radiation
(12.89),
which
impacted
surface
conditions
evaporation.
Relative
humidity
(10.24)
speed
(8.71)
influenced
lake
stability
mixing.
QM
outperformed
individual
models,
achieved
RMSE
values
0.003
m
(climate
data)
0.001
(water
data),
R2
0.994
0.999,
respectively.
In
comparison,
XGB
GBM
exhibited
higher
lower
scores.
RF
struggled
0.008
0.962,
while
DT
performed
better
(RMSE:
0.006
but
remained
inferior
proposed
model.
These
findings
demonstrate
robustness
approach
handling
particularly
where
fall
short.
highlights
potential
enhanced
systems,
recommending
future
research
directions
incorporate
deep
long-term
forecasting
expand
capabilities
global
scale.
Water,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
17(7), P. 936 - 936
Published: March 23, 2025
Groundwater,
which
constitutes
95%
of
the
world’s
freshwater
resources,
is
widely
used
for
drinking
and
domestic
water
supply,
agricultural
irrigation,
energy
production,
bottled
commercial
use.
In
recent
years,
due
to
pressures
from
climate
change
excessive
urbanization,
a
noticeable
decline
in
groundwater
levels
has
been
observed,
particularly
arid
semi-arid
regions.
The
corresponding
changes
have
analyzed
using
diverse
range
methodologies,
including
data-driven
modeling
techniques.
Recent
evidence
shown
notable
acceleration
utilization
such
advanced
techniques,
demonstrating
significant
attention
by
research
community.
Therefore,
major
aim
present
study
conduct
bibliometric
analysis
investigate
application
evolution
machine
learning
(ML)
techniques
research.
this
sense,
studies
published
between
2000
2023
were
examined
terms
scientific
productivity,
collaboration
networks,
themes,
methods.
findings
revealed
that
ML
offer
high
accuracy
predictive
capacity,
especially
quality,
level
estimation,
pollution
modeling.
United
States,
China,
Iran
stand
out
as
leading
countries
emphasizing
strategic
importance
management.
However,
outcomes
demonstrated
low
international
cooperation
led
deficiencies
solving
transboundary
problems.
aimed
encourage
more
widespread
effective
use
management
environmental
planning
processes
drew
transparent
interpretable
algorithms,
with
potential
yield
rewarding
opportunities
increasing
adoption
technologies
decision-makers.
Applied Water Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(11)
Published: Oct. 15, 2024
In
response
to
increasing
flood
risks
driven
by
the
climate
crisis,
urban
areas
require
advanced
forecasting
and
informed
decision-making
support
sustainable
development.
This
study
seeks
improve
reliability
of
reservoir-based
ensure
adequate
lead
time
for
effective
measures.
The
main
objectives
are
predict
hourly
downstream
discharge
at
a
reference
point,
compare
predictions
from
single
reservoir
with
four-hour
against
those
three
reservoirs
seven-hour
time,
evaluate
accuracy
data-driven
approaches.
takes
place
in
Han
River
Basin,
located
Seoul,
South
Korea.
Approaches
include
two
non-deep
learning
(NDL)
(random
forest
(RF),
vector
regression
(SVR))
deep
(DL)
(long
short-term
memory
(LSTM),
gated
recurrent
unit
(GRU)).
Scenario
1
incorporates
data
reservoirs,
while
2
focuses
solely
on
Paldang
reservoir.
Results
show
that
RF
performed
4.03%
(in
R2)
better
than
SVR,
GRU
4.69%
LSTM
1.
2,
none
models
showed
any
outstanding
performance.
Based
these
findings,
we
propose
two-step
approach:
Initial
should
utilize
upstream
long
closer
event,
model
focus
more
accurate
prediction.
work
stands
as
significant
contribution,
making
well-timed
local
administrations
issue
warnings
execute
evacuations
mitigate
damage
casualties
areas.