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From:Environments (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper explores existing decentralized governance arrangements and capacities for integrated watershed management in Canada across its thirteen provinces and territories, with particular emphasis on...
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From:International Advances in Economic Research (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDAVID W. YOSKOWITZ [*] This paper examines the existing price differentials for raw water along the Rio Grande. An extremely active spot market for this good, more than 926 transactions have been made over a...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 18, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedByline: Z. Zhang, H. Hu, F. Tian, X. Yao, M. Sivapalan To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 50, Issue 11)Staff Since 2003, Building Design+Construction has produced a series of annual reports on the green building movement.¹ Our first two White Papers covered the early days of green building. In subsequent reports,...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedExpanding irrigated cropping areas is one of Brazil's strategies to increase agricultural production. This expansion is constrained by water policy goals to restrict water scarcity to acceptable levels. We therefore...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 7) Peer-ReviewedWater pollution has been hindering the world's sustainable development. The accurate inversion of water quality parameters in sewage with visible-near infrared spectroscopy can improve the effectiveness and rational...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWater contamination The recent water tragedies in Walkerton, Ontario, and North Battleford, Saskatchewan, show that Canadians cannot take the safety of their drinking water for granted. Water treatment systems can...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 50, Issue 11)Staff Water and energy in buildings are intertwined, not only at the point of consumption, but also at the point of generation. Four percent of electricity use in the U.S., or 75 billion kWh annually, is attributable...
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From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 15, Issue 19) Peer-ReviewedThis paper describes the University of New Hampshire Water Balance Model, WBM, a process-based gridded global hydrologic model that simulates the land surface components of the global water cycle and includes water...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 69, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince 1993, several wells have been found to be contaminated in Randolph Township, New Jersey. As a result, the local health department believed there was a need to develop an ordinance that would protect the health of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed
Application of enhanced assimilable organic carbon method across operational drinking water systems.
Assimilable organic carbon (AOC) is known to correlate with microbial growth, which can consequently degrade drinking water quality. Despite this, there is no standardised AOC test that can be applied to drinking water... -
From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA large-scale pilot study was carried out to evaluate the impacts of changes in water source and treatment process on iron and copper release in water distribution systems. Finished surface waters, ground-waters, and...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 50, Issue 11)Staff Respondents to Building Design+Construction's "Nonresidential Survey" expressed a wide variety of viewpoints concerning water in the built environment. "This is a very important issue for the world," said the...
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From:Journal of Chemistry (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedThe threat posed by illegal mining to the quality of water resources in Ghana has become a major public concern due to the closing down of some water treatment plants in the country. This study aimed to investigate heavy...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAnthony C. Ward (1) The movie Erin Brockovich is about a legal case involving a cluster of cancers associated with ground water contamination from a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) site in Hinkley, California. Almost...
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From:Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research Series A: Physical Sciences (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA number of water quality data is available from local water corporation. However, people do not know the quality of the water that is coming out of their taps. Our drinking water, whether it comes from the mains supply...
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From:Drinking Water Engineering and Science (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe primary goal of a drinking water company is to produce safe drinking water fulfilling the quality standards defined by national and international guidelines. To ensure the produced drinking water meets the quality...
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From:International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Asghar. Tavasolifar, Bijan. Bina, Mohammad. Amin, Afshin. Ebrahimi, Mohammad. Jalali Aims: This study was aimed to design comprehensive risk management based on hazard analysis and critical control points...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 78, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMaximum contaminant levels created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Safe Drinking Water Act do not apply to private wells. Rather, the onus is on individual households to undertake regular water...
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From:Journal of Sensors (Vol. 2023) Peer-ReviewedWater-saving irrigation technology has been studied for many years, but due to insufficient investment in research and development of irrigation equipment, it cannot be effectively promoted and applied. In order to...