“…The results showed that the forecasting models are sensitive to different environmental input variables. AI-based models, especially ANN techniques, were frequently applied for forecasting purposes with streamflow and environmental processes thanks to easy implementation, low computational cost and suitable performance (Fotovatikhah et al, 2018;Motahari & Mazandaranizadeh, 2017;Olyaie, Banejad, Chau, & Melesse, 2015;Wang, Xu, Chau, & Lei, 2014;Zamanisabzi, King, Dilekli, Shoghli, & Abudu, 2018). They have been developed to predict a water quality index (Gazzaz, Yusoff, Aris, Juahir, & Ramli, 2012), monthly chemical oxygen demand concentration (Khalil, Awadallah, Karaman, & El-Sayed, 2012), daily water temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen (Alizadeh & Kavianpour, 2015), etc.…”