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Attention is increasingly focused on the protection of water systems as critical infrastructure, including subsystems of supply, sanitation, hygiene, and management.
Peter Hazell +5 more
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Application of pump as turbine in extracting surplus energy of water transmission lines [PDF]
Electricity production is very important in developing countries. Undoubtedly, energy production is a key factor for the economic and social development of these countries.
Fereshteh Aziziye +3 more
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Legionella is able to remain in water as free-living planktonic bacteria or to grow within biofilms that adhere to the pipes. It is also able to enter amoebas or to switch into a viable but not culturable (VBNC) state, which contributes to its resistance
Emanuele Luigi Sciuto +7 more
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The carbon footprint of pharmaceuticals through manufacturing, distribution, the incineration of unwanted pharmaceuticals as well as the packaging of pharmaceutical waste is an emerging and enormous challenge.
Nosiphiwe P. Ngqwala, Petros Muchesa
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Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems
We convened a workshop to enable scientists who study water systems from both social science and physical science perspectives to develop a shared language.
Christa Brelsford +22 more
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Biofouling in water systems [PDF]
The paper describes the mechanisms in the development of biofouling layers (initial surface conditioning, microbial transport and attachment, mass transfer of nutrients to the biofilm surface and through the microbial layer, cell metabolism, and detachment of cells and of larger parts of the biofilm) and summarizes the effects of several factors on the
Melo, L. F., Bott, T. R.
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Serotyping of Legionella Bacteria Isolated from Various Water Systems in the Central Anatolia Region
Objective: Legionella bacteria are waterborne environmental pathogens that are considered a public health problem because they cause Legionnaires' disease, which is a nationally notifiable disease. Materials and Methods: Legionella analysis was performed
Betül Gümüşlüoğlu +1 more
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Experimental study on transforming dredged silt from water systems into roadbase filling
A method was presented to treat the dredged silt from water systems with soil stabilizer so that the soils became suitable for roadbase construction. Two soil samples, namely silt (soil a) and silty clay (soil b) dredged from the Hangzhou-Ningbo Canal ...
SHAO Yu-fang
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Electricity and water systems are inextricably linked through water demands for energy generation, and through energy demands for using, moving, and treating water and wastewater. Climate change may stress these interdependencies, together referred to as
Julia K Szinai +3 more
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More frequent drought is projected for California. As water supplies constrict, and urban growth and out-migration spread to rural areas, trade-offs in water use for agriculture, biodiversity conservation, fire hazard reduction, residential development ...
Lynn Huntsinger +6 more
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