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Chao-Hsien Liaw and Yu-Chuan Chiang
Domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH) is widely recognized as an alternative source of water in Taiwan because of water shortages. This suggests that rainwater potential should be maximized and quantified. In this article, we assess the potential of DRWH ...
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Simona Errico, Paola Sangiorgio, Stefania Moliterni, Alessandra Verardi, Anna Spagnoletta, Salvatore Dimatteo and Ferdinando Baldacchino
New solutions are compulsorily needed to reconcile the enormous and ever-growing request for protein for human nutrition and, at the same time, reduce conventional meat production. This epochal challenge can find a valuable aid to a winning solution in i...
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Mohamed Elsayed Gabr, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Ali Salem and Ahmed Awad
Point and nonpoint wastewater sources have a detrimental, negative effect on agriculture, soil, surface, and groundwater supplies. In this research, a wastewater treatment system made up of a sedimentation tank, a horizontal subsurface flow constructed w...
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Pier Paolo Miglietta, Federica De Leo, Marcello Ruberti and Stefania Massari
In this paper, we have explored the possibility of substituting traditional meat products with an alternative source of protein (insects) in order to reduce human pressure on water. Insects, in fact, could represent a good alternative source of quality p...
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Sneha Gautam, Lakshmi M. Makhitha, Anirudh Gupta, J. Brema, E. J. James and Gajendran Chellaiah
Greywater has been identified as a valuable alternative water source over recent years. Few practices (i.e., recycling and reuse) of greywater have attracted global attention in meeting the future water demand. However, essential parameters should be ana...
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Tatiana Trifonova, Dmitriy Trifonov and Sergey Arakelian
Traditionally torrential rains are considered as the main factor of flood emergence. With the examples of two disastrous floods in 2015 in absolutely different parts of the world, the authors roughly estimate the water balance and suggest an alternative ...
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María L. Fuentes-Galván, Josefina Ortiz Medel and Luz A. Arias Hernández
This study was carried out in rural communities in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico. A questionnaire was directly applied to users of rainwater (RW) to identify the uses, water consumption, and perception towards RW and traditional supply sourc...
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María L. Fuentes-Galván, Josefina Ortiz Medel and Luz A. Arias Hernández
This study was carried out in rural communities in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico. A questionnaire was directly applied to users of rainwater (RW) to identify the uses, water consumption, and perception towards RW and traditional supply sourc...
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William Githungo, Silvery Otengi, Jacob Wakhungu and Edward Masibayi
Design and operation of water resources management systems in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from inadequate observation data. Long running uninterrupted time series of data are often not available for water resource planning. Incomplete datasets with missing...
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Leja Rovan, Sonja Lojen, Tea Zuliani, Tja?a Kanduc, Metka Petric, Barbara Horvat, Simon Rusjan and Marko ?trok
The karst aquifer of the Ljubljanica River catchment, which has numerous springs and sinks, presents an interesting environment for studying hydrogeological processes. This study aims to explore the behavior of U isotopes and to evaluate their use as tra...
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Charles Florez, Young Ho Park, Delia Valles-Rosales, Antonio Lara, Emilio Rivera
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Uranium contamination of groundwater increasingly concerns rural residents depending on home wells for their drinking water in communities where uranium is a source of contamination. Established technologies to clean up contaminated aquifers are ineffect...
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Charles Florez, Young Ho Park, Delia Valles-Rosales, Antonio Lara and Emilio Rivera
Uranium contamination of groundwater increasingly concerns rural residents depending on home wells for their drinking water in communities where uranium is a source of contamination. Established technologies to clean up contaminated aquifers are ineffect...
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Emese Szabó, Zsolt Pap, Gergo Simon, András Dombi, Lucian Baia, Klára Hernádi
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The exploitation of thermal water as a heat source in houses and apartments (during winter) is a widely used alternative to natural gas. However, this type of water may contain organic contaminants, which must be removed before releasing the used water i...
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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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Ismael Vera-Puerto, Hugo Valdés, Marcos Bueno, Christian Correa, Jorge Olave, Marcos Carrasco-Benavides, Flavia Schiappacasse and Carlos A. Arias
Reclamation of treated wastewater is considered a viable option for reducing the agricultural and national water deficit, especially in Mediterranean-type and arid climatic conditions. Given that Chile is a country around 40% of whose territory is classi...
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Gabriel Ramírez-Balboa, Rosendo Balois-Morales, Juan Esteban Bello-Lara, Pedro Ulises Bautista-Rosales, Andrés Eloy León-Fernández, Graciela Guadalupe López-Guzmán, Yolotzin Apatzingan Palomino-Hermosillo, Yilmar Arisai López-Flores (Author)
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Starch is one of the most used polysaccharides in the food industry because is an excellent raw material to modify the texture and consistency of food. Also, is the main source for energy storage in horticultural products. The starch from soursop fruits ...
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Ram K. Tyagi
Nowadays, the world is more focused on hydraulic energy, which scientists have initiated thorough analyses of hydropower resources. The potential of wind power generation is immense. It is an historical source of energy but wind power is not applicable i...
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Edoardo Bertone and Rodney A. Stewart
Fit-for-purpose potable source substitution of appropriate water end uses with rainwater or recycled water is often essential to maintain water security in growing urban regions. This paper provides the results of a detailed supply-demand forecasting rev...
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Celma Almerinda Niquice-Janeiro, Andre Marques Arsénio and Jules Bernardus van Lier
This research investigated the contribution of wastewater-based nutrient supply, viz., nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), and potassium (K), for lettuce production in the Infulene Valley, Mozambique, from July to September 2019. The research was conducted in...
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Prathiba Rex, Kalil Rahiman Mohammed Ismail, Nagaraj Meenakshisundaram, Praveen Barmavatu and A V S L Sai Bharadwaj
Biochar has gained attention as an alternative source of solid energy and for the proper disposal of agricultural biomass waste (ABW). Microwave-assisted pyrolysis (MAP) is a promising approach for the production of biochar. This review article presents ...
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