Browsing by Subject "Water resources management"
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An Assessment of Sustainable Water Management at University Campuses
(2011)Sustainable water management is needed to ensure quality supplies of our vital water resources in the face of growing human demand for water, high levels of pollution, and increasing spatial and temporal variability associated ... -
Authoritarian Governance and the Provision of Public Goods: Water and Wastewater Services in Egypt
(2019)Studies on the effect of regime type on public goods provision have tended to take a quantitative, cross-national approach to examining the relationship between regime type and access to public goods, and have demonstrated ... -
Diverse Ways of Knowing in Water Quality Conservation in North Carolina
(2013)Diverse ways of knowing have been recognized by scholars in many disciplines to contribute creative perspectives and novel problem-solving approaches. In the environmental sciences, those dependent on natural resources and ... -
Identifying water contamination from fossil fuel development using geochemical and isotopic fingerprints
(2017)Fossil fuels continue to be a major component of the energy economies in North America, accounting for 60% of electricity generation in the U.S. Recent incidences (i.e. spills) and limited regulation of the fossil fuel industry ... -
Influence of Increased Human Presence in the Mills River Basin on Water Availability and Drought
(2016)Periods of drought and low streamflow can have profound impacts on both human and natural systems. People depend on a reliable source of water for numerous reasons including potable water supply and to produce economic value ... -
Integrated Bayesian Network Models to Predict the Fate and Transport of Natural Estrogens at a Swine Farrowing CAFO
(2012)Natural steroidal estrogen hormones in swine wastes generated from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) have become a potential pollutant to many aquatic environments due to their adverse impacts on the reproductive ... -
Modeling of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell -membrane distillation desalination cogeneration system
(2013)The demand for water and energy increases as the world's population grows. Unfortunately, many people have limited access to these two very necessary resources. In order to solve this dire issue, industry leaders, governments, ... -
Predicting Concentrations of Selected Ions and Total Hardness in Groundwater Using Artificial Neural Networks and Multiple Linear Regression Models
(2020)Assessing the quality of groundwater in a given aquifer can be an expensive and time-consuming process. An effort is made in this thesis to predict several water quality parameters, namely Fe, Cl, SO4, and total hardness ... -
The Application of Extreme Stochastic Inputs to a Transport Model in the Context of Global Climate Change
(2011)Global climate is predicted to have significant impacts on the chemical, biological, and physical characteristics of wetlands and the watersheds in which they are contained. In particular, climate prediction models suggest ... -
The Municipal Bond Market and Water Utilities: The Impact of Capital Markets on Local Communities and their Water Services
(2022)The majority of medium- to large-sized municipal water utilities in the United States rely on the 4 trillion USD municipal bond market to finance all or a portion of their operations, maintenance, and capital improvements. ... -
Vulnerability of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants to Climate Change
(2018)Modeling studies predict that droughts and hotter water and air temperatures caused by climate warming will reduce the efficiency (η) of thermoelectric plants by 0.12-0.45% for each 1°C of warming. In Chapter 2, we evaluate ...
