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Reducing Pressure on Drinking Water Resources in Droughts: A Narrative Study [PDF]
The long trends of drought have caused much damage to the society. This phenomenon leads to an imbalance between water supply and demand with the abnormal dominance of arid climate over an area.
Katayoun Jahangiri +4 more
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A new root box for developing whole root systems in water culture [PDF]
We have established a new plant box made of phenolic resin foam for developing whole root systems in water culture, and examined its application to the detection of changes in pH and the distribution of nutrients in the rhizosphere. The root box is light and soft, providing the cultures with ample air.
Hitoshi Sekimoto +3 more
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Digital libraries for the developing world [PDF]
Digital libraries (DLs) are the killer app for information technology in developing countries. Priorities here include health, agriculture, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, and safe drinking water. Computers are not a priority, but simple, reliable access
Witten, Ian H.
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Comparisons of Water Quality near Cage Culture Sites in Batang Ai Reservoir, Sarawak, Malaysia [PDF]
New development and expansion of cage culture at Batang Ai Reservoir would require investigation of the water quality. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the water quality at three existing aquaculture sites, one abandoned site, and ...
T. Y. Ling +4 more
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Water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica (Blume) DC.) is an important vegetable crop. Nutrient liquid culture has become an important cultivation method in the production of water dropwort. However, the effects of different nutrient solution cultivation methods
Kai Feng +8 more
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Medieval Water Energies: Philosophical, Hydro-Social, and Intellectual
This essay argues for the consideration of energy and an energy-based humanities model in the study of water in the Middle Ages. It also proposes that ‘energy’, when discussed in the context of the Middle Ages, is in fact a study of ‘energies’, derived ...
James L. Smith
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Women, technology, and water: creating new waterscapes and contesting cultural norms
Abstract With the analysis of primary data, the paper looks at how the adoption of new modes of water technologies and subsequent water commercialization has created new waterscapes. Water commercialization is changing cultural norms associated with water collection in the drought-prone villages of western Rajasthan. The newly introduced
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Effects of Rice-Fish Co-culture on Oxygen Consumption in Intensive Aquaculture Pond
Rice-fish co-culture has gained increasing attention to remediate the negative environmental impacts induced by intensive aquaculture. However, the effect of rice-fish co-culture on oxygen depletion has rarely been investigated.
Fengbo Li +8 more
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Embracing Complexity: Creating Cultural Change Through Education for Sustainability [PDF]
Campus Kindergarten in Brisbane, Australia, is a community-based organisation for children and families that has embraced change through the evolution of its internationally acclaimed ‘Sustainable Planet Project’. The centre initiated the project in 1997,
Davis, Julie, Gibson, Megan
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Relating to the river: New bio-cultural diversities in human engagements with water
This article considers the potential for creating new constellations of human-non-human relations in river catchment areas. It makes use of the author's ethnographic research in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and engages with current debates about human and non-human rights in relation to water.
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