1. a Water Research Center, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
2. b College of Agriculture and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
3. c Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
4. d Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
5. e College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
6. f Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.