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Ying-Xin Zhao, Chun-Fang Chao, Si-Yuan Zhai, Zi-Jian Wang and Min Ji
Differing from municipal wastewater, rural wastewater in salinization areas is characterized with arbitrary discharge and high concentration of salt, COD, nitrogen and phosphorus, which would cause severe deterioration of rivers and lakes. To overcome th...
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Helvi Heinonen-Tanski and Ville Matikka
Domestic wastewaters, which cannot be disposed through sewage networks, must be treated with different on-site treatment systems; these are usually commercial, small-scale treatment plants or built sand filters. These systems are usually maintained by th...
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Bo Yang, Xiao Kong, Bingjian Cui, Decai Jin, Ye Deng, Xuliang Zhuang, Guoqiang Zhuang and Zhihui Bai
Great attention has been paid to the potential of wastewater irrigation as a sustainable water source, particularly due to water scarcity and water pollution issues. However, few studies have focused on its adverse effects and on the health risks it may ...
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Othman A. Al-Mashaqbeh, Ayoup M. Ghrair and Sharon B. Megdal
Installation of decentralized grey water treatment systems in small rural communities contributes to a more sustainable water supply. In order to gauge community attitudes about collection and use of grey water, a door-to-door survey in the farming commu...
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Jiro Kogi, Mariko Miyamoto, Jay Bolthouse and Makoto Yokohari
Similar to other Asian nations, suburban areas in Japan are characterized by dense intermixtures of residential areas and farmlands. These hybrid rural/urban areas are evaluated negatively in modern planning frameworks. However, mixed rural/urban landsca...
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Ying-Xin Zhao, Chun-Fang Chao, Si-Yuan Zhai, Zi-Jian Wang and Min Ji
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Amira Oun, Arun Kumar, Timothy Harrigan, Andreas Angelakis and Irene Xagoraraki
Most of the waterborne disease outbreaks observed in North America are associated with rural drinking water systems. The majority of the reported waterborne outbreaks are related to microbial agents (parasites, bacteria and viruses). Rural areas are char...
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Thomas M. Missimer, Robert G. Maliva, Noreddine Ghaffour, TorOve Leiknes and Gary L. Amy
Depletion of water supplies for potable and irrigation use is a major problem in the rural wadi valleys of Saudi Arabia and other areas of the Middle East and North Africa. An economic analysis of supplying these villages with either desalinated seawater...
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Adam Piasecki
Water and sewage management in Poland has systematically been transformed in terms of quality and quantity since the 1990s. Currently, the most important problem in this matter is posed by areas where buildings are spread out across rural areas. The pres...
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Yueming Lu, R. Paul Philp and Coralie Biache
Fecal contamination is a major concern for water quality management, since the fecal materials are associated with pathogens that can cause illness wherever water is used for recreational, drinking and aquaculture purposes. In order to monitor source(s) ...
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Norbert Brunner, Markus Starkl, Absar A. Kazmi, Alvaro Real, Nitin Jain and Vijay Mishra
Based on experiences about the planning of decentralized wastewater treatment systems for slums of two rural towns in India, the paper asks to what extent affordability for the future users may impede the realization of other sustainability goals. The pl...
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Roger Attwater and Chris Derry
Pressures on urban, peri-urban and rural water and agricultural systems are increasingly complex with multiple interacting stresses and impacts. As a way of addressing these issues there has been increasing consideration as to how to build and manage res...
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Juanhong Li, Xiwu Lu
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Recently, more decentralized wastewater treatments are of great interest for rural regions. In this work, a novel ANF-WDSRBC system combined with an anoxic filter (ANF) and a four-stage water-dropping-self-rotating biological contactor (WDSRBC) was desig...
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Juanhong Li and Xiwu Lu
Recently, more decentralized wastewater treatments are of great interest for rural regions. In this work, a novel ANF-WDSRBC system combined with an anoxic filter (ANF) and a four-stage water-dropping-self-rotating biological contactor (WDSRBC) was desig...
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Andreas N. Angelakis, Giovanni De Feo, Pietro Laureano and Anastasia Zourou
The aim of this study is to present water and wastewater technologies used during the Minoan (ca. 3200?1100 BC) and Etruscan (ca. 800?100 BC) civilizations. The basic technologies considered are: water harvesting and distribution systems, cisterns, groun...
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Jerônimo Andrade Filho, Osvaldo Nogueira de Sousa Neto, Nildo da Silva Dias, José Francismar de Medeiros, Rafael Oliveira Batista
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This study was performed at the campus of the Semiarid Rural Federal University in Mossoró, State of Rio Grande do Norte, and aimed to evaluate the behavior of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. race latifolium Hatch), cultivar 8h as for growth and yield when...
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Zamira E. Soto-Varela, David Rosado-Porto, Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo, Camila Pichón González, Bertha Granados Pantoja, Dalidier Estrada Alvarado and Giorgio Anfuso
Beach water quality is an important factor concerning public health and tourism linked to the ?Sun, Sea and Sand? market and is usually assessed in international regulations by the quantification of Escherichia coli and enterococci counts. Despite Salmon...
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Bingjian Cui and Shengxian Liang
Wastewater reuse for agricultural irrigation in many developing countries is an increasingly common practice. Regular monitoring of indicators can help to identify potential health risks; therefore, there is an urgent need to understand the presence and ...
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Yuyang Liu, Bo Feng and Yu Yao
With the intensification of water pollution problems worldwide, constructed wetlands, as a green, efficient, and energy-saving wastewater treatment technology, have gradually attracted the wide attention of scholars at home and abroad. In order to better...
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Sharjeel Waqas, Noorfidza Yub Harun, Nonni Soraya Sambudi, Muhammad Roil Bilad, Kunmi Joshua Abioye, Abulhassan Ali and Aymn Abdulrahman
A rotating biological contactor (RBC) is a type of attached-growth biological wastewater treatment system and a widely used biological wastewater treatment technology. It employs a series of rotating discs to support microbial growth and promote the remo...
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