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Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Magnus Moglia, Ashok Sharma, Biju George and Francis Pamminger
This paper presents a critical review of the physical impacts of decentralized water supply systems on existing centralized water infrastructures. This paper highlights the combination of centralized and decentralized systems, which is referred to as hyb...
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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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Jorge Cardoso-Gonçalves and José Tentúgal-Valente
Optimizing the management of hydraulic infrastructures that support water supply, wastewater, and stormwater drainage can increase the efficiency of these systems. A framework for operational management of urban water systems allows for robust management...
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Emily S. Bailey and Mark D. Sobsey
As treated wastewater is increasingly used for agricultural purposes; questions remain about the microbiological quality of produce irrigated by these waters. This study conducted a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) using microbial data colle...
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Silvia Díaz-Alcaide, Pedro Martínez-Santos and Fermín Villarroya
Groundwater represents an essential resource in sub-Saharan Africa, where several hundred million people rely on aquifers for domestic supply. This paper presents a method to map groundwater potential in the Republic of Mali based on a spatially-distribu...
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Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Magnus Moglia, Ashok Sharma, Biju George, Francis Pamminger
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Urban water managers around the world are adopting decentralized water supply systems, often in combination with centralized systems. While increasing demand for water arising from population growth is one of the primary reasons for this increased adopti...
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Petri S. Juuti, Georgios P. Antoniou, Walter Dragoni, Fatma El-Gohary, Giovanni De Feo, Tapio S. Katko, Riikka P. Rajala, Xiao Yun Zheng, Renato Drusiani and Andreas N. Angelakis
Water fountains are part of every human settlement, and historical and mythological stories. They are the source from which life-sustaining water was distributed to people until piped systems started providing fresh tap water inside buildings. In many pl...
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Nathalie Sänger, Christine Heinzel and Simone Sandholz
The current understanding of critical health infrastructure resilience is still dominated by a technical perspective. Reality however is different, as past events including the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed: emergency situations are only rarely exclusi...
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Armando Carravetta, Maurizio Giugni and Stefano Malavasi
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Stavroula Tsitsifli and Vasilis Kanakoudis
Disinfection is a very significant water treatment process for drinking water safety, as it inactivates pathogens from drinking water. However, disinfection-by-products (DBPs) are formed which are accused of contributing to cancer and reproductive/develo...
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Rosiberto Gonçalves, Jesse J. M. Soares and Ricardo M. F. Lima
The world?s population growth and climate changes increase the demand for high-quality water. This fact forces humankind to create new water management strategies. Smart cities have successfully applied the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in many sec...
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Jungho Choi and Eun-Young Park
Liquified natural gas (LNG) fuel has received significant attention as an affordable and highly efficient fuel option due to strengthened regulations on the sulfur content of bunker oil put in place by the International Maritime Organization. The main co...
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Vincenzo Torretta, Athanasia K. Tolkou, Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Ettore Trulli, Elena Magaril and Elena Cristina Rada
The safety of high quality drinking water supply relies on the quantities to be delivered, on the complexity of the water supply systems, and on the widespread phenomena of the contamination of water bodies. These parameters indicate the need for the dev...
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Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Ashok Sharma and Magnus Moglia
There are pressures on existing centralized water infrastructures in urban centers which justify the search for alternatives. An increasingly important alternative is to shift from centralized to hybrid systems, often in response to climate variability a...
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Emanuele Romano, Nicolas Guyennon, Andrea Duro, Raffaele Giordano, Anna Bruna Petrangeli, Ivan Portoghese and Franco Salerno
Management of water supply systems under shortage conditions due to drought requires computational tools able to relate the past precipitation regime over different time scales to future water resources availability. This work proposes a modelling framew...
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Laura Monteiro, João Delgado and Dídia I. C. Covas
Enhancing energy efficiency of water supply systems by recovering part of the excessive pressure is currently an issue of growing interest for water companies. The installation of micro hydro plants for energy recovery can be profitable in sites with exc...
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Dimitri Nowak, Helene Krieg, Michael Bortz, Christian Geil, Axel Knapp, Harald Roclawski and Martin Böhle
The design and operation of water supply systems is a multicriteria task: the energy efficiency should be minimized while, at the same time, respecting technical requirements, such as the balanced operation of available pumps. On one hand, the overall sy...
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Zbynek Hrkal, Pavel Eckhardt, Anna Hrabánková, Eva Novotná and David Rozman
The Káraný waterworks supplies drinking water to about one-third of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic with a population of more than 1 million. The combination of two technologies?bank infiltration and artificial recharge?are used for produc...
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Vincenzo Torretta, Athanasia K. Tolkou, Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Ettore Trulli, Elena Magaril and Elena Cristina Rada
The safety of high quality drinking water supply relies on the quantities to be delivered, on the complexity of the water supply systems, and on the widespread phenomena of the contamination of water bodies. These parameters indicate the need for the dev...
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Daniel Etongo, G. Honor Fagan, Consolata Kabonesa and Richard Asaba B.
Over 85% of Uganda?s 34 million people depend on rural water supply systems and the current water and environment sector performance report (2017) reports an 84% functionality of rural water sources such as boreholes and shallow wells with a hand pump. E...
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