As we become more firmly established in the 21st century, the international system faces a number of increasingly more difficult challenges that pose threats to global security and human progress. Among these challenges, water scarcity and failing states have each received promi…
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Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) is one of the largest active organic carbon reservoirs formed from processes that break down terrestrial/aquatic matter and released from plant roots as exudates. In watersheds, DOC is continuously transported and processed through rivers, streams …
Global climate change is projected to have disproportionate adverse impacts on water quality and availability in low-resource settings. Therefore, it is essential that developing countries assess their vulnerabilities and develop strategies to improve their resilience. This thes…
Cyclic storage of surface water and groundwater (CSSG) refers to physically integrated and operationally-interconnected surface water and groundwater subsystems with their full interactions. In such a system, surface and subsurface impoundment subsystems may be treated as compet…
The rising temperature of the earth due to climate change has shown to alter the variations of hydro-climate variables, including their intensities, frequencies and durations. Extreme events such as floods are, in particular, susceptible to any disturbances in climate cycles. As…
One of the most important purposes of surface water resource management is to develop predictive models to assist in identifying and evaluating operational and structural measures for improving water quality. To better understand the effects of external and internal nutrient and…
Libya is a large country in northern Africa and the majority of its land area is desert. This research is a comparison of the performance in Libya between water-cooled and packaged air-conditioning for large buildings. This study utilized the simulation software eQUEST which is …
Southeastern Anatolian Development project (GAP) was designed as a useful development project for the Southeastern Anatolian Region which is historically underdeveloped region in Turkey. However, such large dam projects have strong oppositions because they bring unintended socia…
Rapid urbanization and development are causing severe problems of raw water extraction and related environmental and social impacts in developing countries. This study demonstrated that an integrated approach to decision making could help solve these problems. A case study of ra…
This study explores the historical evolution of the water situation in Palestine at a local level in the West Bank village of Zababdeh. The thesis examines Palestine's geography and the historical relationship of Zababdeh's people with this environment. A sudden shift in this re…
The objective of the thesis is to develop and evaluate useful tools and applications of Earth Observation (EO) satellite data to estimate surface fluxes in semi-arid countries. In a first part (Chapter 4), we assess the performance of a new parameterisation scheme of ground heat…
Water is a vital resource for life. Environmental lawyer Stephen C. McCaffery identifies "two ominous phenomena relating to fresh water: increased water usage and increased global population numbers." This combined increase in population and water scarcity has been labeled as a …
Access to clean water is essential for the health of all populations, yet some developing nations still lack sufficient supply. Inadequate supply of clean water results in consumption of contaminated sources, which in turn can cause or exacerbate existing disease. Old Fangak, So…
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is a biological conversion technology which is being used to produce bioenergy all over the world. This energy is created from biological feedstocks, and can often use waste products from various food and agricultural processors. Biogas from AD can be us…
There could hardly be any doubt that the pursuit of development objectives, especially in a developing country such as Nigeria, is a legitimate and in fact necessary path for economic, social and political advancement. Within the decades of the 1970s and 1980s however, increased…
Mounting recognition of the socio-political context of the management of water resources has rendered the application of technocratic approaches in isolation insufficient in addressing future management challenges with participatory approaches increasingly promoted in response. …
Lake of the Ozarks was constructed for hydropower and has become a popular recreational river-reservoir in the Ozark Plateau of Missouri. Wide spread use of septic tanks in porous soils of the region poses a threat to public health via leaching into drinking wells and coves used…
Kuwait sea surface temperature (SST) and water clarity are important water characteristics that influence the entire Kuwait coastal ecosystem. The spatial and temporal distributions of these important water characteristics should be well understood to obtain a better knowledge a…
Water is essential to human life and a healthy environment, it is important that the water is in a good, usable condition. Water pollution has a significant impact on the environment, and it should be monitored over time. A conventional method requires personnel to physically go…