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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"water infrastructure"”.
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Water infrastructure : hybridized architecture along the Arizona canal
… in the 1970s. As a result, 5% of the amount of water diverted from the Colorado River is lost to evaporation and seepage from the exposed aqueduct and Lake Pleasant reservoir. This amount of loss is equivalent to the amount of water required to supply 75,000 households annually. With increasing …
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THE NEW URBAN SOFTSCAPE : URBAN PARK AS WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
… entertainment, communal, and storm-water management facilities, blending in as part of the urban fabric, performing as a whole. Joining two urban pocket parks in Singapore’s downtown core, a continuous landform is created to link three disparate parcels of land. The park transforms …
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Urban Water Infrastructure in Britain and China (1600–1840)
… provides the first systematic history of urban water infrastructure in Britain and China between 1600 and 1840. This period is defined not by Eurocentric periodisation but by the genealogies of technical knowledge and urban governance: from the seventeenth-century emergence of specialised …
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Prioritization of Potable Water Infrastructure Investments on the Navajo Nation
… in part by the lack of an adequate potable water infrastructure which has resulted in health disparities and has attributed to stunted economic growth within the Nation. Large candidate regional water transmission pipelines projects aimed to meet these needs have been identified. With …
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Public space in suburbia : water infrastructure as a community catalyst
… what is arguably the city's most sensitive need: water. For almost a century, the physical artifacts that were invented as a means to secure, manage and protect this supply have successfully distributed water throughout Los Angeles. However, the increasingly pervasive presence of water …
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Artificial nature : water infrastructure and its experience as natural space
This work is about water infrastructure and its experience as urban and natural space. It deals with the concepts of nature/geography, technology, and the integral experiential space by analyzing water dams and reservoirs that are more than utilitarian structures. In the process of formulating the …
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Performance Review of Pipe to Structure Connections In Storm Water Infrastructure
… Department of Transportation District 7 stormwater drainage infrastructure. These flexible rubber-based pipe-to-structure connections are intended to provide a watertight seal between drainage pipes and concrete structures such as manholes and ditch bottom inlets while allowing limited …
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Development of a project delivery model for Umgeni Water : infrastructure projects
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Built Environment, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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Disciplining water – risk, environmental politics, and the return of water infrastructure
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Drinking Water Infrastructure Assessment with Teleconnection Signals, Satellite Data Fusion and Mining
Adjustment of the drinking water treatment process as a simultaneous response to climate variations and water quality impact has been a grand challenge in water resource management in recent years. This desired and preferred capability depends on timely and quantitative knowledge to monitor the …
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Flexible design : an innovative approach for planning water infrastructure systems under uncertainty
… design approach to support decision-making in water supply infrastructure planning. It contrasts with a conventional, deterministic planning approach that uses past data or forecasts to anticipate future needs. This thesis surveys current approaches that attempt to consider uncertainty, …
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Sustainability of Residential Hot Water Infrastructure: Public Health, Environmental Impacts, and Consumer Drivers
Residential water heating is linked to the primary source of waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States, and accounts for greater energy demand than the combined water/wastewater utility sector. To date, there has been little research that can guide decision-making with regards to water …
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What Is The Economic Feasibility Of Implementing Grey Water Infrastructure At The Citywide Level?
… and economic feasibility of implementing grey water recycling systems at a citywide scale. Past and present conditions of fresh water scarcity are discussed, and how scarcity will be exacerbated by climate change. Previous technological developments and initiatives are discussed, and how they …
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Water Infrastructure finance in Nambia: Analysing the participation of State and non-State actors
… climate change have had significant impacts on water resources, mostly in dry and semi-arid countries. Therefore, there is a need to provide more water infrastructure. Lack of adequate water infrastructures, most prevalent in the developing countries, negatively affects sufficient supply of …
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Suffering for water: infrastructure, household access and its fluid negotiations in peri-urban Tamale, Ghana
Analysis of access to water in the global South tends to disproportionately focus on the presence of water infrastructure such as the piped network to estimate the proportion of population that have access to water. While interest in access to water has advanced considerably, less research has …
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Linking biophysical models and life cycle assessment to evaluate environmental tradeoffs of urban water infrastructure design
Water, a limited resource even on our hydrous planet, has always been inextricably tied to the rise and fall of cities and human infrastructure. Clean, plentiful water drives our food and energy production, provides transport, and keeps humans and the environment healthy. Integrated urban water …
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Who pays for water? : cost recovery and user fees in Boston's public water infrastructure, 1849-1895
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.
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Advancing Potable Water Infrastructure through an Improved Understanding of Polymer Pipe Oxidation, Polymer–Contaminant Interactions, and Consumer Perception of Taste
… removing acute and chronic health threats from water, substantially less study has focused on potable water infrastructure and water quality deterioration, monitoring technologies, and relationships between water taste and consumer health. These knowledge–gaps have left infrastructure users, …
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Improving Water Security with Innovation and Transition in Water Infrastructure: From Emergence to Stabilization of Rainwater Harvesting in the U.S.
… two-thirds of the population face significant water shortages and eighty percent of the U.S. states' water managers predict water shortages in the near future. Additionally, the current centralized system in the United States is facing significant problems of scarcity, groundwater depletion, …
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A Comparative Study of Rural Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin
… I examine and explore whether and if Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) inspired water reforms respond to- and address the diverse realities of women and men in informal (and formal) rural economies of Sekororo, South Africa and Ward 17 in Gwanda, Zimbabwe which are both in the Limpopo …
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