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José-Luis Molina, Santiago Zazo, Fernando Espejo, Carmen Patino-Alonso, Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez and Domingo Zarzo
Floods are probably the most hazardous global natural event as well as the main cause of human losses and economic damage. They are often hard to predict, but their consequences may be reduced by taking the right precautions. In this sense, hydraulic inf...
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Christos Tzimopoulos, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Nikiforos Samarinas, Basil Papadopoulos and Christos Evangelides
In this work, a novel fuzzy FEM (Finite Elements Method) numerical solution describing the recession flow in unconfined aquifers is proposed. In general, recession flow and drainage problems can be described by the nonlinear Boussinesq equation, while th...
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Rui Cunha Marques, Pedro Simões, Inês Machete and Thalita Fagundes
Water access is recognized as a human right by the United Nations since 2010. However, even when piped water is available, the economic crisis has limited poorer households to afford those services on a regular basis. Users become debtors as utilities fa...
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Fernanda Santos Mota de Jesus, Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro and Javier Tomasella
Access to drinking water is recognized as a human right, meaning that it is necessary to guarantee its universal and equitable access. Since analyzing only the average access rates to drinking water may obscure inequalities, studies have adapted socioeco...
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Carolina Rodríguez, Bárbara García, Caterin Pinto, Rafael Sánchez, Jennyfer Serrano and Eduardo Leiva
Water scarcity is a problem of global relevance that is affecting more and more people in the world. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have around 35% of the world?s renewable water resources. However, the management of water resources and inequality...
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Silvia Díaz-Alcaide, Wennegouda Jean-Pierre Sandwidi, Pedro Martínez-Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches, José Luis Cáceres and Naomi Seijas
Granting safe water access worldwide is a major objective of the Sustainable Development Goals. Water access is a manifold concept that encompasses collection time, distance from the household, water quality, affordability, and reliability of water sourc...
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Lieselotte Viaene
Water conflicts across the world are bringing to the fore fundamental challenges to the anthropocentric boundaries of the human rights paradigm. Engaging with the multi-layered legal ethnographic setting of the Xalalá dam project in Maya Q?eqchi? territo...
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Rebecca Schiel, Bruce M. Wilson and Malcolm Langford
Ten years after the United Nation?s recognition of the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS), little is understood about how these right impacts access to sanitation. There is limited identification of the mechanisms responsible for improvements in...
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Pedro Martínez-Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches, Silvia Díaz-Alcaide and Kerstin Danert
Water access remains a challenge in rural areas of low-income countries. Manual drilling technologies have the potential to enhance water access by providing a low cost drinking water alternative for communities in low and middle income countries. This p...
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María Custodio, Walter Cuadrado, Richard Peñaloza, Raúl Montalvo, Salomé Ochoa and Jocelyn Quispe
Water pollution by heavy metals is one of the leading environmental concerns as a result of intense anthropogenic pressure on the aquatic environment. This constitutes a significant limitation to the human right of access to drinking water. In this conte...
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