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Daniel Barros, Isabela Almeida, Ariele Zanfei, Gustavo Meirelles, Edevar Luvizotto, Jr. and Bruno Brentan
Leakages in distribution networks reach more than 30% of the water supplied, entailing important risks for the water infrastructure with water contamination issues. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new methods to mitigate the amount of water wastes....
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Katerina Mácová and Zuzana Kozáková
Contrary to the other functions of multi-purpose reservoirs, recreational use is not associated with a tangible social value, which hinders the search for new balances among optimal uses of water that will likely be needed under climate change. The objec...
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Mary G. Lusk, Lisa S. Krimsky and Nicholas Taylor
Healthcare demand for liquid oxygen during the COVID-19 pandemic limited the availability of oxygen needed for ozone disinfection of drinking water in several urban areas of Florida. While the situation reduced the state?s capacity to provide normal drin...
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Hanqing Liu, Yong Zhao, Haihong Li, Lizhen Wang and Qingming Wang
It is of significance to examine the factors impacting individual water-saving behavior and their mechanism of action for water demand management, especially for domestic water demand management. To provide a solution to the issues of individual water-sa...
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Raquel de Souza Pompermayer,Humberto Angelo,Alexandre Nascimento de Almeida,Pedro Guilherme de Andrade Vasconcelos,Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli Matricardi,Maristela Franchetti de Paula,Eder Pereira Miguel
This paper presents an estimate of the water demand in Distrito Federal, a Federative Unit of Brazil where the capital of Brazil is located. We develop a water demand model based on the tariff structure to capture the essential aspects of water use by co...
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Xiaotong Zhu, Guangpeng Zhang, Kaiye Yuan, Hongbo Ling and Hailiang Xu
In recent years, the large-scale development of land and water resources has led to a conflict between water supply and demand. Especially in arid regions, fragile ecosystems and continuous farmland expansion have threatened the ecological and social sec...
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Jesús Efren Ospina Noreña,Carlos Alberto Domínguez-Ramírez,Emel Enrique Vega-Rodríguez,Aquiles Enrique Darghan-Contreras,Luis Ernesto Rodríguez-Molano
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This workdiscusses in detail the parameters involved in water balance. The analysis is performed by considering the current conditions and climate change in a climatic zone that represents the arid regions of Colombia: The municipality of Uribia (desert)...
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Marco Martello, Nicola Dal Ferro, Lucia Bortolini and Francesco Morari
The optimization of irrigation use in agriculture is a key challenge to increase farm profitability and reduce its ecological footprint. To this context, an understanding of more efficient irrigation systems includes the assessment of water redistributio...
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Liangxin Fan, Fei Wang, Guobin Liu, Xiaomei Yang and Wei Qin
The usual perception of consumers regarding water consumption is that their bills do not match their actual water consumption. However, this mismatch has been insufficiently studied; particularly for cases related to specific water-use patterns, water co...
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Lilli Linkola, Clinton J. Andrews and Thorsten Schuetze
Households consume a significant fraction of total potable water production. Strategies to improve the efficiency of water use tend to emphasize technological interventions to reduce or shift water demand. Behavioral water use reduction strategies can al...
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