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From the Cover: Water-controlled wealth of nations

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Geospatial Tools and Remote Sensing Strategies for Timely Humanitarian Response: A Case Study on Drought Monitoring in Eswatini

Soft robotics for farm to fork: applications in agriculture & farming

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On the influence of flow-front orientation on stringer stiffened composite panels in water impacts

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The molecular scale mechanism of deposition ice nucleation on silver iodide

Modeling, design and economics of PEC devices

Waterborne Virus Transport and Risk Assessment in Lake Geneva Under Climate Change

From Surfactants to 3D Printing: How Ion-Chelator Pair Interactions Affect the Mechanical Properties of Bioinspired Materials

Soil warming alters tree water use and canopy stomatal conductance in a mixed subtropical forest

Design and assessment of an evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for a SOE-based power-to-methane system

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Soft Robotics: A Route to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity in Robotics

Atmospheric water harvesting in semi-arid regions by membranes: A techno-economic assessment

Ecosystem engineering by periphyton in Alpine proglacial streams

Sunshine and a pinch of tropical soils: A natural, low-cost photo-Fenton variation for safer water, assisted by H2O2 or percabonate

Industrial Biotechnology Conservation Processes: Similarities with Natural Long-Term Preservation of Biological Organisms

Estimating pollution spread in water networks as a Schrödinger bridge problem with partial information

The Bioaccumulation of Ionizable Organic Compounds in Fish Cell Lines