The unintended misalignment between social security paydays and water bill due dates increase the likelihood of late payments water bills

A liquidity shock in the amount of a bimonthly water bill results in a 10.3% increase in late payments among recipients of income support

Our findings may provide utility regulators with insights into the desired timing of due dates for bill payment and late fees policy

Observed intra-seasonal energy flux variance (from diurnal temperature amplitude) is used to quantify surface responsiveness to forcings

Intra-seasonal mechanisms based on the energy flux-soil moisture relationship and weather variability describe responsiveness patterns

Spending more time in the water-limited evaporative regime enhances surface responsiveness across intra-seasonal to interannual timescales

Large volumes of precipitation and ground water flow into sanitary-sewer pipes

This undesirable diversion of water substantially reduces flow in urban streams

Abatement of this problem could enhance low flows in urban streams by 6 – 36%

Improved differential imaging technique is used to quantify porosity and saturation distribution of a heterogeneous rock sample

A new sub-rock typing method based on the drainage experiment is presented

Segmentation of microporous regions plays an important role in multiphase flow simulation

Canopy density effect on peak snow accumulation and snowpack duration varies with winter climates

Canopy thinning is most effective in wet/warm winter climates for improving snowpack duration

Greatest decrease in snowpack duration under warming is anticipated for snowpack under dense canopy in presently warm winter climates

Passive irrigation systems with a saturated zone and underdrain supported accelerated tree growth in initial years following planting

Accelerated growth was not sustained beyond two years. Despite this, trees with greater initial growth used more water in later years

Hence, passive irrigation systems may facilitate cooling and runoff reduction benefits through greater growth and transpiration

People perceived different authorities’ credibility similarly, underscoring the need for them to provide compatible warning messaging

Planning with multiple stakeholders and citizens before an incident is important to increase awareness and protective action compliance

Water safety management must be integrated with a community’s comprehensive emergency operations planning to ensure effective response

Effects of soil compaction on soil hydraulic properties are reflected in soil water dynamics as seen by geoelectrical measurements

Pedophysical model predictions linking soil structural traits with electrical resistivity are consistent with soil hydraulic models

Soil compaction reduced both electrical resistivity and hydraulic conductivity and enhanced surface evaporation relative to uncompacted soil

We propose a new method to frame a deterministic prediction model into a stochastic setting with probability based uncertainty assessment

We theoretically and empirically prove the optimal performance of the method for operational applications

We provide an open source computer code to apply the method and perform diagnostic checking

We manually identified 30,549 river obstructions on 2.1 million km of large rivers across the globe

The Global River Obstruction Database provides rich new context for understanding human impacts on rivers

GROD identifies many in-river structures missed by other global dam databases