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CORRECTION article

Front. Water

Sec. Water Resource Management

This article is part of the Research TopicNature-based Solutions for Water Resilience under Climate ChangeView all 3 articles

Water availability in a university campus: the role of an artificial lake as a nature-based solution

Provisionally accepted
Bethy  Merchán-SanmartínBethy Merchán-Sanmartín1,2,3*Itati  Arteaga-BravoItati Arteaga-Bravo1Sebastián  Suárez-ZamoraSebastián Suárez-Zamora2Ana  Velásquez-MolinaAna Velásquez-Molina1Pablo  Rosales-SerranoPablo Rosales-Serrano1Mijail  Arias HidalgoMijail Arias Hidalgo1,4Maria  Jaya-MontalvoMaria Jaya-Montalvo1,2,5Maribel  Aguilar-AguilarMaribel Aguilar-Aguilar1,2Paúl  Carrión-MeroPaúl Carrión-Mero1,2
  • 1Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias de la Tierra (FICT), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • 2Centro de Investigación y Proyectos Aplicados a las Ciencias de la Tierra (CIPAT), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • 3Geoscience Institute, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Ecuador
  • 4Centro del Agua y Desarrollo Sustentable (CADS), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • 5Facultad de Ingeniería en Mecánica y Ciencias de la Producción, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

In the published article, there was a mistake in the Ackowledgements. The acknowledgments were displayed as "Agradecemos al Departamento de Mantenimiento de ESPOL por los datos brindados para esta investigación, así como al Departamento de Sostenibilidad, Gerencia de Infraestructura Física y representantes del sector estudiantil de ESPOL por su participación en el desarrollo de la encuesta para la tercera fase del estudio." The correct statement is:

Keywords: sustainable development, Circular economy, water balance, Artificial wetland, Living labs

Received: 31 Oct 2025; Accepted: 03 Nov 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Merchán-Sanmartín, Arteaga-Bravo, Suárez-Zamora, Velásquez-Molina, Rosales-Serrano, Arias Hidalgo, Jaya-Montalvo, Aguilar-Aguilar and Carrión-Mero. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Bethy Merchán-Sanmartín, betgumer@espol.edu.ec

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