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Anna Kosovac, Anna Hurlimann and Brian Davidson
In the context of a changing urban environment and increasing demand due to population growth, alternative water sources must be explored in order to create future water security. Risk assessments play a pivotal role in the take-up of new and unfamiliar ...
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Anna Kosovac, Anna Hurlimann and Brian Davidson
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Jia-Cheng Yao, Jian-Lan Zhou and Hai Xiao
With the rapid development of science and technology and the continuous progress of society, water resource sustainability has attracted much attention. The assessment process of water resource sustainability has become a hot topic. Because professional ...
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Arnaud Reynaud, Vasileios Markantonis, Cesar Carmona Moreno, Yèkambèssoun N?Tcha M?Po, Gédéon Wèré Sambienou, Firmin M. Adandedji, Abel Afouda, Euloge Kossi Agbossou and Daouda Mama
Participatory approaches to water management, and specifically to transboundary river management, have been widely applied over recent decades. Regarding transboundary rivers, the active involvement of key actors in policy planning is of great importance...
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Sónia Lima, Ana Brochado and Rui Cunha Marques
This study focused on the unbalanced relationships that can arise in current public?private partnership (PPP) risk management frameworks, especially in developing countries? water sectors. Different stakeholders? perceptions of risk management were exami...
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Mirjana Radulovic, Sanja Brdar, Minucer Mesaro?, Tin Lukic, Stevan Savic, Biljana Basarin, Vladimir Crnojevic and Dragoslav Pavic
Groundwater is one of the most important natural resources for reliable and sustainable water supplies in the world. To understand the use of water resources, the fundamental characteristics of groundwater need to be analyzed, but in many cases, in situ ...
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Ina Vertommen, Djordje Mitrovic, Karel van Laarhoven, Pieter Piens and Maarten Torbeyns
Numerical optimization is gradually finding its way into drinking water practice. For successful introduction of optimization into the sector, it is important that researchers and utility experts work together on the problem formulation with the water ut...
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Yuting Bai, Yijie Niu, Zhiyao Zhao, Xuebo Jin and Xiaoyi Wang
The phenomenon of algal bloom seriously affects the function of the aquatic ecosystems, damages the landscape of urban river and lakes, and threatens the safety of water use. The introduction of a multi-attribute decision-making method avoids the shortco...
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Nirmala Dorasamy, Olayemi Bakre
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The majority of the South African rural populace is directly or indirectly engaged in agricultural practices to earn a livelihood. However, impediments such as climate change, water shortages, and inadequacy of institutional support have undermined these...
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Carlo Giupponi and Alessandra Sgobbi
Decision support system (DSS) tools are rather popular in the literature on water resources management. The European Project ?Splash? conducted a survey of the literature and of DSS implementation in developing countries with specific reference on Africa...
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Angeliki Mentzafou, Yiannis Panagopoulos and Elias Dimitriou
Water quality indices that describe the status of water are commonly used in freshwater vulnerability assessment. The design of river water quality monitoring programs has always been a complex process and despite the numerous methodologies employed by e...
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Bowen He, Han Zheng and Qun Guan
This study examines the DCMA concerning the future risk of the water security status. We considered three risk factors: population growth, economic growth, and natural water supply?demand differences. In the risk analysis part, we consulted with experts ...
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Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik and Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieslak
Contemporary risk assessment makes reference to current world trends, whereby there is increased emphasis on safety. This paper has thus sought mainly to present new approaches to failure risk assessment where the functioning of a water distribution netw...
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Pedro Martínez-Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches, Daniel Solera, Beatriz Cano and Silvia Díaz-Alcaide
While access to water remains an issue in arid and semiarid regions across the world, aquifers have the potential to help millions of people out of poverty by providing a reliable source of drinking and irrigation water. Manual boreholes are increasingly...
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Pedro Martínez-Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches, Daniel Solera, Beatriz Cano, Silvia Díaz-Alcaide
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While access to water remains an issue in arid and semiarid regions across the world, aquifers have the potential to help millions of people out of poverty by providing a reliable source of drinking and irrigation water. Manual boreholes are increasingly...
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Amilkar E. Ilaya-Ayza, Carlos Martins, Enrique Campbell and Joaquín Izquierdo
Intermittent supply is a common way of delivering water in many developing countries. Limitations on water and economic resources, in addition to poor management and population growth, limit the possibilities of delivering water 24 h a day. Intermittent ...
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Ivan Coluzza, Jessie Creamean, Michel J. Rossi, Heike Wex, Peter Aaron Alpert, Valentino Bianco, Yvonne Boose, Christoph Dellago, Laura Felgitsch, Janine Fröhlich-Nowoisky, Hartmut Herrmann, Swetlana Jungblut, Zamin A. Kanji, Georg Menzl, Bruce Moffett, Clemens Moritz, Anke Mutzel, Ulrich Pöschl, Michael Schauperl, Jan Scheel, Emiliano Stopelli, Frank Stratmann, Hinrich Grothe and David G. Schmale
There has been increasing interest in ice nucleation research in the last decade. To identify important gaps in our knowledge of ice nucleation processes and their impacts, two international workshops on ice nucleation were held in Vienna, Austria in 201...
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Lucia de Strasser, Annukka Lipponen, Mark Howells, Stephen Stec, Christian Bréthaut
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The ?nexus? is a potentially very appropriate approach to enhance resource efficiency and good governance in transboundary basins. Until now, however, evidence has been confined to isolated case studies and the nexus approach remains largely undefined. T...
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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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Holger Hoff, Christopher Bonzi, Brian Joyce and Katja Tielbörger
The Jordan River basin is subject to extreme and increasing water scarcity. Management of transboundary water resources in the basin is closely intertwined with political conflicts in the region. We have jointly developed with stakeholders and experts fr...
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