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Water, Volume 6, Issue 5

May 2014 - 19 articles

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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,689 Views
15 Pages

Water Label to Improve Water Billing in Spanish Households

  • Ana Castillo-Martinez,
  • Alberto Gutierrez-Escolar,
  • Jose-Maria Gutierrez-Martinez,
  • Jose M. Gomez-Pulido and
  • Eva Garcia-Lopez

23 May 2014

A significant decrease in water consumption has been achieved in recent years thanks to different campaigns run by different institutions in Spain. However, most citizens do not have a very clear idea about whether or not they are efficiently using w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
10,732 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2014

Hydrologic regime plays a major role in structuring biotic diversity within river ecosystems by controlling key habitat conditions within the river channel and floodplain. Daily flow records from seven hydrological stations and the range of variabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
13,212 Views
18 Pages

22 May 2014

Water is one of the most important limiting resources for food production. How much water is needed for food depends on the size of the population, average food consumption patterns and food production per unit of water. These factors show large diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
23,171 Views
14 Pages

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Kenyan Rural Schools: Are Schools Meeting the Needs of Menstruating Girls?

  • Kelly T. Alexander,
  • Clifford Oduor,
  • Elizabeth Nyothach,
  • Kayla F. Laserson,
  • Nyaguara Amek,
  • Alie Eleveld,
  • Linda Mason,
  • Richard Rheingans,
  • Caryl Beynon and
  • Aisha Mohammed
  • + 5 authors

22 May 2014

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs in African schools have received increased attention, particularly around the potential impact of poor menstrual hygiene management (MHM) on equity for girls’ education. This study was conducted prior to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,614 Views
59 Pages

20 May 2014

Many articles published in the last few years start with the assumption that the past decades have seen an increase in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations in the rivers and lakes of the Northern Hemisphere. This study analyses whether the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,985 Views
27 Pages

Benthic Communities of Low-Order Streams Affected by Acid Mine Drainages: A Case Study from Central Europe

  • Marek Svitok,
  • Milan Novikmec,
  • Peter Bitušík,
  • Branislav Máša,
  • Jozef Oboňa,
  • Miroslav Očadlík and
  • Eva Michalková

14 May 2014

Only little attention has been paid to the impact of acid mine drainages (AMD) on aquatic ecosystems in Central Europe. In this study, we investigate the physico-chemical properties of low-order streams and the response of benthic invertebrates to A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,671 Views
21 Pages

14 May 2014

Estimating surface runoff for ungauged watershed is an important issue. The Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) method developed from long-term experimental data is widely used to estimate surface runoff from gaged or ungauged watersheds....

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,033 Views
12 Pages

13 May 2014

Tertiary denitrification of the secondary effluent in wastewater treatment plants is necessary to control the eutrophication of receiving water bodies. Two denitrifying biofilters (DNBF), one packed with quart sand with sizes of 2–4 mm (DNBFS) and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,076 Views
20 Pages

9 May 2014

This study suggests an approach to obtain flood extent boundaries using spatial analysis based on Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper imageries and the digital elevation model. The suggested approach firstly extracts the flood inundation areas using the ISODAT...

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