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May Wu, Sarah McBride and Miae Ha
Reclaimed municipal wastewater is a crucial component in biofuel production, especially in regions experiencing increasing freshwater scarcity. However, accurately estimating the potential for fuel production is challenging because of the uneven distribu...
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Juan Antonio Araiza-Aguilar, María Neftalí Rojas-Valencia, Hugo Alejandro Nájera-Aguilar, Rubén Fernando Gutiérrez-Hernández and Carlos Manuel García-Lara
In this study, the operation of a final disposal site for municipal solid waste in the state of Chiapas, in Mexico, was evaluated. Several spatial analyses and Geographic Information Technology (GIT) tools were used. It was found that the site?s current ...
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Kanako Toyosada and Li Xu
Electric bidets have become widespread in Japan and are now rapidly being installed across the rest of Asia, the United States, and the European Union. However, the impact on water infrastructure has not yet been sufficiently evaluated. Using Japan as an...
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Evelia Rivera Arriaga,Beatriz Edith Vega Serratos,Gregorio Posada Vanegas,Enrique Alejandro Mangas Che
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An integrated coastal zone management approach was used towards building adaptation strategies for the city of San Francisco de Campeche, Mexico. Large interannual variability in precipitation extremes have led to city-wide flooding in numerous occasions...
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Barbora Jáchymová, Josef Krása, Tomá? Dostál and Miroslav Bauer
Accelerated soil erosion by water has many offsite impacts on the municipal infrastructure. This paper discusses how to easily detect potential risk points around municipalities by simple spatial analysis using GIS. In the Czech Republic, the WaTEM/SEDEM...
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Vanilda daConceição Lucas dos Reis,Jonio Ferreira de Souza,Fábio Márcio Bisi Zorzal,Silvia Fernandes Rocha,Vergínia Januário dos Reis Rocha
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A urbanização das cidades tem diminuído a infiltração das águas pluviais e aumentado o escoamento superficial, proporcionando alagamentos, deslizamentos de encostas e poluição de corpos hídricos. Considerando que o serviço público de Drenagem e Manejo de...
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Glenn Baxter, Panarat Srisaeng and Graham Wild
Airports are an essential infrastructure to facilitate aviation. The substantial growth of aviation has led to a significant increase in water usage by airports. Airports also generate large volumes of wastewater that may include contaminants. Hence, und...
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Alon Tal
Given the extraordinary proliferation of seawater desalination plants, Israel?s transition to become a country that almost exclusively relies on desalination for municipal water supply is instructive as a case study, especially given concerns about the t...
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Amy Richmond, Ian Myers and Hafisa Namuli
Urbanization increasingly means that the poorest, most vulnerable people move into large, highly distressed informal areas. These areas exhibit high levels of poverty and inequality. This paper uses Kampala, Uganda to identify drivers of vulnerability in...
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Mhina Given Justin, Jensen Marina Bergen, Mbuligwe Stephen Emmanuel and Kassenga Gabriel Roderick
In rapidly urbanizing catchments, increase in stormwater runoff may cause serious erosion and frequent floods if stormwater management systems are improper and dysfunctional. Through GIS-based modelling, field investigations, resident?s questionnaire sur...
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