Urbanization has a dramatic impact on the health of local streams. The complexity of the many stressors, pathways and ecosystem functions at risk presents a serious challenge to traditional scientific and management approaches. To overcome this complexity, this study developed a general ...
I am modelling a 75000 sq km watershed with no in situ measurements for hydro-meteorological data so i depending on data sets that i downloaded from Climate Forecasting System Reanalysis website. After clipping the data to my study area, i have 112 station but it is not possible for me to ...
UN-World Water Day-Events March 24-27, 2015) Islamabad, Pakistan South Asia. Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP) conducted and organized the events as a lead agency of the collaborating partners.In this connection effort comes in support of the Pakistan Youth Parliament for Water( PYPW) ...
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Decade of drought: a global tour of seven recent water crises With a chronic overuse of resources, it only takes a few bad rainfalls or poor management decisions to plunge a region into crisis. Read more here... via the Global Development Professionals Network | ...
The MaYalo homestead was the first beneficiary in January 2015 of the Hippo Water Roller crowdfunding campaign, MaYalo Food Security Project for women coops. The MaYalo Project was started in rural Eastern Cape in a little village called Holy Cross 100km from Kokstad. The nearest stream ...
Thousands of marijuana farms are depleting California's streams at the height of a historic drought, according to state scientists. Special correspondent Spencer Michels follows along as game wardens, biologists and engineers go in search of marijuana on privately-owned lands -- not to ...
Marine litter pollution is quite notorious among environmentalists and fair promoted on social media but what do we know about ‘river litter’ ?! Rivers , streams and its tributaries in the proximity of settlements ( urban or rural) are far more vulnerable to illegal dumping than ...
Good topic! First comment - the problem of pollution is not directly correlated to income or prosperity of the population living nearby (however some...View more
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Would it worth for wastewater treatment plant operators to invest into bio-treatment of leachate / filtrate with algae to remove nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus?
Here is an article I wrote on Food Security and lessons from history. I hope you find it helpful. https://profitablegrowthservices.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/the-food-chain-who-will-be-our-joseph/
New SBC Energy Institute FactBook "Introduction to the Water and Energy Challenge" Website: http://goo.gl/2ouQyY pdf: http://www.sbc.slb.com/SBCInstitute/Publications/~/media/Files/SBC%20Ene...
Is capacity the biggest bottleneck to achieving universal access to water and sanitation? Although infrastructure remains a big challenge in the developing world, it seems that years of programmes and initiatives have not been fruitful, perhaps developing resident capacity in parallel with hard ...
Very good question Craig. From my experience with sanitation programs in India, approaching the crisis through a purely infrastructural lens (the "if...View more
Are we learning any thing from the trending water crises going on? Or we just want to fix the problem for that point of that only. Do you calculate and check your water consumption?
Good question Tamara. I can only offer that part of good irrigation system design is precision, block-level water measurement, so that the water...View more
Congratulations Excellent Contribution GWP..Global Water Partnership's event - Network Meeting - http://livestream.com/accounts/5230433/events/4079170
Dear All Can you recommend me, How I may go for flood control management for one cave in Oman without disturbing its ecology and environmental part. I worked various aspects, but request you to suggest the methodology which may release required water and rest may be stopped or diverted.Tell ...
Hello everyone, Does anyone have an idea of a good micro bubble product for aquaculture solutions?
30 January, 2013 Marianne Lavelle and Thomas K. Grose of National Geographic "The amount of fresh water consumed for world energy production is on track to double within the next 25 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects. And even though ...
Recent work on the topic: Mekonnen, M.M., Gerbens-Leenes, P.W. and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2015) The consumptive water footprint of electricity and heat: A...View more
Hello Water treatment folks! I would like to share with you a recent experience that I had here in Brazil. The contact with a new (at least, for me) micobiologiacl analisys: Through ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) detection. Pleasae, I invite you to take a look at the article below and take ...
Does anyone have any standards and criteria guidlines for water distribution system design, and water cost and price analysis tools?
Divide the watershed into sub-watershed or you can further divide it into Hydrological response unit.By doing so stations with similar properties that...View more