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Water, Volume 5, Issue 2

June 2013 - 31 articles

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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
12,213 Views
16 Pages

4 June 2013

This article examines some of the forms of water management in Shanxi [山西] and Shaanxi [陕西] provinces during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Facing serious water shortages and shrinking state power for water management, the local society in Shanxi and S...

  • New Book Received
  • Open Access
8 Citations
15,951 Views
2 Pages

3 June 2013

The following paragraphs are reproduced from the website of the publisher [1]. Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curio...

  • New Book Received
  • Open Access
7,110 Views
3 Pages

3 June 2013

The following paragraphs are reproduced from the website of the publisher [1]. Water is becoming one of the world’s most crucial concerns. A third of the world’s population has severe water shortage, while three quarters of the global population liv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,310 Views
9 Pages

31 May 2013

As part of measures being taken against global warming, the reduction of CO2 emissions by retrofitting for water-saving fittings in homes is spreading throughout the world. However, although this retrofitting reduces the environmental impact at the u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,120 Views
12 Pages

17 May 2013

Aquifers recharge mainly by local rainfall, which depend on the air mass humidity and orographic lifting, causing rain. The stable isotopes of the water molecule, i.e., oxygen-18 and deuterium, are useful tracers to determine the water source origin....

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
21,771 Views
24 Pages

10 May 2013

Urbanized delta areas worldwide share a growing tendency of exposure to water stress induced by the effects of climate change and anthropogenic factors, threatening the operation of infrastructure systems and future urban development. The important s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,851 Views
15 Pages

7 May 2013

Irrigation practice for rice culture can be especially challenging in areas with limited water supply and soil salinization. In this study, we carried out a field experiment to assess the effects of different water discharge frequencies on soil salt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,778 Views
18 Pages

Mean Normalized Force Computation for Different Types of Obstacles due to Dam Break Using Statistical Techniques

  • Jasna Duricic,
  • Tarkan Erdik,
  • Ali Osman Pektaş and
  • Petrus H.A.J.M Van Gelder

6 May 2013

The dam-break induced loads and their effects on buildings are of vital importance for assessing the vulnerability of buildings in flood-prone areas. A comprehensive methodology, for risk assessment of buildings subject to flooding, is nevertheless s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,206 Views
20 Pages

Factors Affecting Phosphorous in Groundwater in an Alluvial Valley Aquifer: Implications for Best Management Practices

  • Francisco Flores-López,
  • Zachary M. Easton,
  • Larry D. Geohring,
  • Peter J. Vermeulen,
  • Van R. Haden and
  • Tammo S. Steenhuis

2 May 2013

Many streams in the US are impaired because of high Soluble Reactive Phosphorous (SRP) contributions from agriculture. However, the drivers of ecological processes that lead to SRP loss in baseflow from groundwater are not sufficiently understood to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,198 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2013

Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration is considered as a key indicator of the eutrophic status of inland water bodies. Various algorithms have been developed for estimating Chl-a in order to improve the accuracy of predictive models. The objective of t...

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