Human health and the sustainability of the socioeconomic system are directly related to
water quality. As anthropogenic activity becomes more intense, pollutants, particularly …

Lake Cajititlán is a small, shallow, subtropical lake located in an endorheic basin in western
Mexico. It is characterized by a strong seasonality of climate with pronounced wet and dry …

Lakes and reservoirs provide important ecosystem services that support human welfare and
socio-economic activities. However, in many world regions, the ecological integrity of lakes …

The advancement of industrialization and urbanization has exacerbated global water
pollution. Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) serves as a crucial metric for assessing organic …

Groundwater serves as an important resource for people in the Mekong Delta, but its quality
has been continuously declined from human activities. Current status of the groundwater …

Water quality indices (WQIs) are customarily associated with heavy data input demand,
making them more rigorous and bulky. Such burdensome attributes are too taxing, time …

Abstract A Water Quality Index (WQI) is a formulation that enables the estimation of the
overall quality of a water body based on significant parameters. One example of this is the …

Anthropogenic pollution of water has become an urgent management challenge across the
world. We explored benthic macroinvertebrates community structure in relation to …

Isolation and functional characterization of microorganisms are relevant steps for generating
starter cultures with functional properties, and more recently, those related to improving …

Lakes are important water sources and significantly support the local ecological and
environmental balance, especially in arid and semiarid regions. For this study, the seasonal …