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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Water Price"”.
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Water Demand in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
… faces a legally de ned quota for the amount of water that it is allowed to pump from Lake Michigan. Separately, in Northeastern Illinois, the ground water level has fallen due to pumping pressure. Together, these constraints on water supply could limit economic and population growth in the …
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Farm-scale Water Management in Adaptation to Climate Change in Morocco
Morocco is already experiencing high levels of water scarcity, and rainfall is predicted to decrease by 20% to 50% under different climate change scenarios. As currently Morocco relies on large reservoirs built to achieve basin-scale water resources management, small-scale reservoirs are …
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Future Implications of Past Domestic Water Usage Trends
Residential water use typically constitutes a large proportion of total urban water consumption. Thus, its understanding is pivotal in water demand planning and management. However, in complex urban environments this task can be challenging since the heterogeneity in the household and housing …
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Water requirement for biorefinery to meet the renewable fuel standard in the contiguous United States
… production requires a considerable amount of water for biofuel conversion. However, it is still unclear how much water is needed in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) to convert feedstocks to biofuels and the associated impacts on local water availabilities. This study addresses this issue …
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Economic Analysis of Recapturing and Recycling Irrigation Techniques on Horticulture Nurseries
The horticulture industry is facing limited water resources and public pressure to reduce non-point source pollution. In some circumstances, recapturing and recycling of irrigation water in horticultural nurseries can generate significant savings relative to the costs of alternative water sources …
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Short run irrigation water demand : an empirical evaluation of the role of price, crop and technology choice
… interest has arisen regarding irrigation water use in, especially, arid areas where competition for this scarce but crucial commodity is likely to intensify. The immediate implication is that user sectors, of which irrigated agriculture is the largest, must ensure efficient and …
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Infrastructure investment and policy management of water resources for small-scale irrigated agriculture
… subsidies of irrigation infrastructure. Enhanced water storage and irrigation can significantly improve yield and the welfare of the farm community by providing a more reliable water supply during growing periods. Generally speaking, such enhancements require subsidies from the government or other …
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Modeling watershed management with an ecological objective - a multi-agent system based approach
Watershed management is a practice that administers water and land resources within a watershed context for different users under spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability. Meeting water demands for both human and ecosystem and maintaining the harmonic balance between those two is one of the …
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The application of solar desalination for water purification in Cyprus
This thesis initially reports on the water resources of Cyprus. From this analysis the need for desalination systems to provide fresh water, is established.<br/><br/>A survey of solar desalination systems shows that there arc two broad categories of such systems; namely direct and indirect …
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Water use efficiency and influence of management policies, analysis for the small-scale irrigation sector in South Africa
With the growing water scarcity, the need for more efficient water use has worldwide increased in importance. In addition, cost-recovery is now widely acknowledged as a cornerstone of sustainable water management. This research aims to contribute to improved water management in the small-scale …
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Integrating water resources and power generation: the energy-water nexus in Illinois
… often accomplished using large amounts of water. Negative consequences of power plant water demands, such as dialing down or shutting down, have become increasingly apparent during times of low water availability. Consequently, water constraints can translate into energy constraints. …
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Development of novel decentralized water reuse schemes for efficient Army operation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Theoretische und praktische Untersuchung einer mehrstufigen solarthermischen Kleinanlage zur Meer- und Brackwasserentsalzung
… these purposes there is a need of small and low-priced desalination plants. Among a multitude of existing desalination methods the multi-stage heat recovery seems to offer a large potential for energy conservation. However, this process has not yet reached efficencies as high as those of the MEH …