Presents a timely exploration of research topics in environmental chemistry of lakes and reservoirs. Includes coverage of methodological advances in studies of lake geochemistry; cycling and distribution of major elements in aquatic systems; behavior of trace metals, with an emp…
Coastal reservoirs are viewed in many regions of the world as an emerging concept of storing fresh water when the river basin is in flood. Similar reservoirs (or impoundments) can be used to generate tidal renewable energy and/or provide the catalysis for urban regeneration. Con…
A series of devastating Harmful Algal Blooms caused by Prymnesium parvum occurred in Possum Kingdom Lake resulting in an estimated economic loss to the local counties of 2.8 million and 1.1 million dollars in 2001 and 2003, respectively. Three important shifts in the lake’s ecol…
Why are adivasis fighting the Narmada dam and other development projects in India today? Are adivasis 'ecologically noble savages' living in harmony with nature? What is the tribal relationship with nature today? How do people, whose struggles are the subject of theories of libe…
Inland waters play an important role in the transport, transformation, loss and storage of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in the pathway between terrestrial and marine systems. Inland waters can act as both sources to the atmosphere through evasion of GHGs such as CO2, CH4 and N2O,…
River impoundment is considered one of the most important anthropogenic impacts on rivers globally. The growing body of literature on the effects of impoundment on abiotic and biotic factors tends to focus on individual large (hydropower) dams, while the effects on smaller water…
An investigation behind possible reasons for deteriorating injectivity of field A peripheral water injectors below their initial set individual target rates is carried out. This is followed by an assessment of the possibility of improvement in injectivity with acid fracturing an…
The Citarum River basin in West Java, Indonesia, has a cascade of three reservoirs, Saguling Reservoir, Cirata Reservoir, and Juanda Reservoir, linked in series from upstream to downstream. Cirata and Saguling Reservoirs function primarily for hydroelectric power production, whi…
This research is devoted to the management and operation of multi-purpose water resource systems, in particular, with the strategy of water allocations between competing users that should be implemented during periods of low flows. This is a vital area of concern in climatologic…
In zoned dams, it is expected that pore pressure is uniformly dissipated from the upstream to the downstream side of the core. Based on this hypothesis, the potential profile across the core in a steady state seepage flow is expected to be more or less linear and the equipotenti…
Nonconventional wells offer great potential for the recovery of petroleum resources. Wells of this type are underutilized in practice, however, in part because it is difficult to optimize their deployment. To maximize reservoir performance, we optimize the number of producers an…
A compartmentalized reservoir is made up of a number of hydraulically-communicating compartments. Usually the communication between a pair of neighboring compartments is poor due to the presence of faults or low-permeability barriers. Here a new approach is taken to understand t…
Conventional modeling of fractured reservoirs treats fracture permeability and porosity as static (or pressure-dependent) data. Recent attempts at coupling geomechanics focused on the permeability, but used crude empirical relations and treated the fluid flow as single porosity.…
