Human activities continue to affect our water quality; it remains a major problem worldwide
(particularly concerning freshwater and human consumption). A critical water quality index …

Urban streams have been the focus of much research in recent years, but many questions
about the mechanisms driving the urban stream syndrome remain unanswered …

Understanding the relationships between land use patterns and water quality in low-order
streams is useful for effective landscape planning to protect downstream water quality. A …

The impact of land use metrics on watershed water quality is scale-dependent on a
seasonal-spatial basis. Exploring the associations between land use metrics and riverine …

Storm-water pollutants are widely recognized as a major cause of surface water quality
degradation. Most storm-water treatment efforts have focused on capture of particles and …

Comprehensive landscape patterns influence water quality with multiple factors, complex
processes, and scale dependence. However, studies identifying landscape thresholds …

Abstracts By integrating soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) modeling and land use and
land cover (LULC) based multi-variable statistical analysis, this study aimed to identify …

The impervious cover model (ICM) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, with
nearly 250 research studies testing its basic hypothesis that the behavior of urban stream …

Many natural and anthropogenic factors cause degradation of urban stormwater quality,
resulting in negative consequences to receiving waters. In order to improve water quality …

This literature review focuses on the prevalence of nitrogen and phosphorus in urban
environments and the complex relationships between land use and water quality. Extensive …