The 1996 urban water sector reform in Senegal is not the sustainable development success claimed by its proponents. Privatization and cost-recovery management resulted in poor water and sanitation services unaffordable to many, increased access inequalities, and accelerated wate…
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Environmental surprises are bound to occur. Surprise is a phenomenon relative to human perception and is felt when events deviate from the expected or are entirely unanticipated prior to their occurrence. Surprise is induced by uncertainty, complexity, and chaos in environmental…
The nanotechnology market is developing rapidly with new applications for nanoparticles emerging constantly. As a result of the increased exposure to nanoparticles through consumer use and release to the environment it is becoming necessary to investigate their environmental eff…
This research was conducted to update previous studies of the springs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Approach: Revisit every spring that was recorded previously to ascertain the current status, water quality and zooplankton communities. Results: fourteen springs out of forty si…
The Mesopotamia region, within the boundaries of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, is populated by different ethnic, national, and religious groups (Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites), which have long fought over the control of its fertile lands. Since the early 1970's, there has b…
The Edwards aquifer controversy is a classic example of the transition which occurs when a common-pool resource governed under the institution of 'free capture' fails to meet all demands. As such, it provides opportunities for water planners to develop institutions which allocat…
In the last half century, there has been a remarkable expansion in the rate and scale of dam construction worldwide. Many of these dams have been successful in providing various economic benefits. However, reservoir sedimentation decreases useful capacity of dams, shortens their…
This dissertation investigates the tradeoffs between floodplain agriculture and fisheries production in the Brahmaputra river basin of Bangladesh, where both sectors are simultaneously affected by floodplain development policies. Our goal is to study the impact of development po…
The performance of irrigation systems in many parts of the world is generally perceived to be poor compared to design intentions and investment expectations. Lack of good water management causes this. Data covering climatology, pedology, agriculture and management, commonly coll…
Global water scarcity is rapidly increasing especially in arid countries such as Jordan and Israel. Under such conditions, local, state and national governments are facing the challenge of negotiating water allocation among different parties. This study focuses on the use of Sym…
This dissertation, using a method of “structured, focused comparison,” investigates the phenomenon of conflict and cooperation over international water resources. The three cases of water conflicts chosen for this study—from three different river basins: the Euphrates, the Nile,…
This dissertation deals with the problem of transboundary common pool resources with applications to the Israeli-Palestinian Mountain Aquifer. Unrestricted access to resources and lack of individual accountability for overexploitation create the problem of free riding. Lack of c…
Bayesian neural network (BNN) is introduced as an effective hydrological modeling tool for climate change impact study on water resources with uncertainty estimates. Uncertainty in climate change impact study comes from various sources of climate, downscaling, and rainfall-runof…