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Morag Hunter, D. H. Nimalika Perera, Eustace P. G. Barnes, Hugo V. Lepage, Elias Escobedo-Pacheco, Noorhayati Idros, David Arvidsson-Shukur, Peter J. Newton, Luis de los Santos Valladares, Patrick A. Byrne and Crispin H. W. Barnes
The expansion of copper mining on the hyper-arid pacific slope of Southern Peru has precipitated growing concern for scarce water resources in the region. Located in the headwaters of the Torata river, in the department of Moquegua, the Cuajone mine, own...
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Diego Di Curzio, Sergio Rusi, Alessia Di Giovanni and Emanuele Ferretti
The hilly landscape of the Periadric area in Central Italy is characterized by mainly marly?clayey foredeep basin deposits (Plio?Pleistocene age). These lithotypes are generally considered aquicludes, if compared with the regional limestone aquifers of A...
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Waleed Saeed, Orfan Shouakar-Stash, Warren Wood, Beth Parker and André Unger
Sabkha Matti is the largest inland sabkha (2950 km2) in the Arabian Peninsula. The drainage area supporting this sabkha is >250,000 km2 and is the discharge point for part of the ten thousand meter thick regional groundwater systems ranging in age from P...
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Kassim Ramadhani Mussa, Ibrahimu Chikira Mjemah and Revocatus Lazaro Machunda
This study attempted to delineate and map potential groundwater recharge zones of the Singida, semi-arid, fractured crystalline basement aquifer using open source remote sensing and GIS software. Various thematic maps such as lithology/hydrogeology, soil...
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David Walker, Geoff Parkin, John Gowing and Alemseged Tamiru Haile
Rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa commonly rely on shallow hand-dug wells and springs; consequently, shallow aquifers are an extremely important water source. Increased utilisation of shallow groundwater could help towards achieving multiple sustai...
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Martin J. Wells, Troy E. Gilmore, Aaron R. Mittelstet, Daniel Snow and Steven S. Sibray
Shallow aquifers are prone to nitrate contamination worldwide. In western Nebraska, high groundwater nitrate concentrations ([NO3-]) have resulted in the exploration of new groundwater and nitrogen management regulations in the North Platte Natural Resou...
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Yin Wu, Bowen Li and Fuquan Zhang
A conventional Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) cannot have an infinite lifetime without a battery recharge or replacement. Energy Harvesting (EH), from environmental energy sources, is a promising technology to provide sustainable powering for a WSN. In th...
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Seon Jin Kim and Gino J. Lim
This paper proposes a new method to extend the flight capability of drones in real time. The new method combines two wireless charging methods (stationary wireless charging systems and dynamic wireless charging systems) into a hybrid mode. The drones mus...
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Nara Somaratne
The article ?Karst aquifer recharge: Comments on ?Characteristics of Point Recharge in Karst Aquifers?, by Adrian D. Werner, 2014, Water 6, doi:10.3390/w6123727? provides misrepresentation in some parts of Somaratne [1]. The description of Uley South Qua...
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Nara Somaratne
Karstic groundwater basins are characterized by both point and diffuse recharge. This paper describes the hydrologic characteristics of point recharge and their influence on recharge estimation for four groundwater basins. Point recharge is highly transi...
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