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A probabilistic deep learning approach to enhance the prediction of wastewater treatment plant effluent quality under shocking load events

Water Research X
Sudden shocking load events featuring significant increases in inflow quantities or concentrations of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), are a major threat to the attainment of treated effluents to discharge quality standards.
Hailong Yin, Yongqi Chen, Jingshu Zhou, Yifan Xie, Qing Wei, Zuxin Xu   +5 more
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Performance comparison of a solar parabolic trough concentrator using different shapes of linear cavity receiver

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
This study presents a numerical investigation of a solar Parabolic Trough Concentrator (PTC) with various Linear Cavity Receivers (LCRs). A linear trapezoidal cavity receiver was simulated and analyzed optically and thermally in the PTC system.
Reyhaneh Loni, Mahdi Sharifzadeh
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Agricultural water management in Bulgaria [PDF]

This paper analyzes evolution and efficiency of water governance in Bulgarian agriculture during post-communist transition and EU integration. First, it defines the water governance and the scope of analysis.
Bachev, Hrabrin
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Supporting Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation Through Systemic Praxis [PDF]

, 2013
Understanding and working with multiple perspectives on issues of change is an essential part of managing “common pool” water resources. In uncertain and complex situations arising from changes in human settlements and climate, both lives and livelihoods
Blackmore, Chris, Collins, Kevin, Ison, Ray   +2 more
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A precipitation recycling network to assess freshwater vulnerability : challenging the watershed convention [PDF]

, 2019
Water resources and water scarcity are usually regarded as local aspects for which a watershed-based management appears adequate. However, precipitation, as a main source of freshwater, may depend on moisture supplied through land evaporation from ...
Keune, Jessica, Miralles, Diego
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Toward the Adaptive Governance of Transboundary Water Resources [PDF]

, 2011
Transboundary water resources, such as international river basins, pose complex and often contentious management challenges. In response to the failures associated with the state-centric approach to the governance of international waters, discussions on ...
Akamani, Kofi, Wilson, Patrick Impero
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Risk of real-time irrigation decision-making system for farmland in arid irrigation districts: Methodology and case studyMendeley Data

Agricultural Water Management
Making precise irrigation decisions several days in advance is of great significance for improving water resource utilization efficiency in arid regions.
Yimin Ding, Mingyu Wang, Jianxin Jin, Zhengyuan Sun, Jia Zhang, Lei Zhu   +5 more
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Institutions and Water -- the Vital Connections [PDF]

This Policy Notes looks into the current two-tiered system of water governance in the Philippines. It argues that despite the presence of certain national-local interfaces among the institutions involved in water governance, the multiplicity of ...
Elazegui, Dulce D.
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Five challenges to the future of transboundary water governance [PDF]

, 2014
This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S.
Sullivan, Leeann M.
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The global dimension of water governance: why the river basin approach is no longer sufficient and why cooperative action at global level is needed [PDF]

, 2010
When water problems extend beyond the borders of local communities, the river basin is generally seen as the most appropriate unit for analysis, planning, and institutional arrangements.
Hoekstra, Arjen Y.
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