In this Focus article, the authors ask a seemingly simple question: Are harmful algal blooms
(HABs) becoming the greatest inland water quality threat to public health and aquatic …

Highlights•Many lentic urban waters are in poor ecological quality, but restoration is
possible.•We identify and review important pressures on urban systems including …

Spatial differences in the supply and demand of ecosystem services such as water
provisioning often imply that the demand for ecosystem services cannot be fulfilled at the …

Wetlands are critically important for biodiversity and human wellbeing, but face a range of
challenges. This is especially true in the Mediterranean region, where wetlands support …

Despite becoming one of the main pressures on aquatic ecosystems globally,
understanding of the ecological impacts of altered water‐level regimes in lakes lags far …

Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from
the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing …

The water industry as a whole consumes a considerable amount of energy in the treatment
and distribution of water and wastewater. Like all sectors of society today, the industry is …

This paper presents an analysis of energy matrices, production cost of water and electricity,
exergo-economic and enviro-economic analyses of an active single slope solar still …

Groundwater is an important water resource that accounts for 30% of the world's freshwater.
97% of this extracted groundwater is for drinking and human use. Due to anthropogenic …

In this research we explored how the concepts and approaches of ecosystem services are
currently used in water management in Europe, in the application of River Basin …