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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Water resources development"”.
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Sustainable water resources development in Kuwait : an integrated approach with comparative analysis of the case of Singapore
This thesis assesses the water resource status of Kuwait and Singapore, both countries considered as water scarce. The institutional aspect of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) efforts in both countries is closely examined at international, regional, national and administrative levels. …
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Irrigationalism – the politics and ideology of irrigation development in the Nam Songkhram Basin, Northeast Thailand
… The principal drivers of modern irrigation development in tropical Asia are widely understood to be political economy related factors such as demographics, changing diets, international food prices, globalization, urbanization, national food and energy policies, and increasingly, climate …
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Optimization Techniques for Instream Flow Allocations
… as part of the project planning process of water resources development. A mathematical programming methodology is developed which provides an analysis technique for multipurpose reservoirs for both biological instream flow needs (IFN) and more traditional water project objectives such as …
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Willingness to pay for property and nonproperty flood hazard reduction benefits: an experiment using the contingent value survey method
The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 has increased attention to the ability of flood control benefit assessment methods to serve the joint need of assessing the economic and financial feasibility of a project. The Contingent Value Method is identified as an alternative flood control benefit …
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Multicriteria decision support system to delineate water resources planning and management regions
The lack of uniform and integrated water resources regions that support sustainable water management within river basins is a critical issue. Overlapping and redundant efforts in planning and management result from conflicting water resources regions, which hamper Integrated Water Resources …
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A GIS-Based Strategy for Managing Levee Simulation Data
… Committee on Levee Safety and spurred the development of the National Levee Database, a central repository of information relating to the location and state of levees across the United States (Water Resources Development Act, 2007). One of the major goals in developing such a database is to …
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Arc Hydro data model for Ethiopian watersheds
Ethiopia is endowed with a substantial amount of water resources. The country’s renewable surface and ground water amounts 123 and 2.6 billion cubic meters per annum, respectively, but its distribution shows high temporal and spatial variation. The Ministry of Water Resources of Ethiopia (MoWR) …
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Cyprus drought water bank
Water banking is a proven water management strategy that facilitates the voluntary temporary reallocation of water from willing sellers to willing buyers. In exchange for compensation, farmers (sellers) may choose to allow their irrigation water to be reallocated to cities, towns, industries, and …
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"Water wars"
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A Combined Field And Laboratory Investigation Into The Transport Of Fecal Indicator Microorganisms Through A Shallow Drinking Water Aquifer In Bangladesh
… the widespread contamination of a shallow groundwater aquifer by fecal bacteria. The context for this study is a field site located in a rural area of Bangladesh that represents a microcosm for the many challenges facing the approximately 2 billion people worldwide who rely upon groundwater for …
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Damming the Nation: How Engineers Transformed Rivers into Water Tanks for Modern South Korea
… the 1960s, under the name of "Comprehensive Water Resources Development," South Korean state engineers have constructed more than a dozen large multi-purpose dams on rivers in the nation. The prevailing Korean narrative tends to regard the surge of large dam-building as the outcome of modern …
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Domestic Water Supply in Kasempa
… the problem of inadequate supply of domestic water. Water supplied to Kasempa Township is abstracted fix)m the Lufupa River. However, the river has not always been a reliable source of domestic water supply. The level of water in the river decreases to a very low level during the dry season or …
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Symmetry methods applied to Richard's equations and problems of infiltration
Water resources development around the world has taken many different forms and directions since the dawn of civilization. Water shortage in arid and semiarid regions has encouraged the search for additional sources currently not exploited intensively. Hence, knowledge of the infiltration process …
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The investigation and development of ground waters
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Water Conservation in Central Texas: Sustainable Water Savings and Future Applications
… 2010 and 2060 significantly increasing municipal water demands, which may be further complicated by climate change and drought (Texas Water Development Board 2007). In order to address potential shortages, municipal water conservation is expected to contribute 145,277 acre-feet of water supplies …
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