Fresh water resources are critical for daily human consumption. Therefore, a continuous monitoring effort over their quantity and quality is instrumental. One important model for water quantity monitoring is the rainfall-runoff model, which represents the response of a watershed…
Freshwater wetlands are an important natural resource; on a local scale they function to buffer hydrological and geochemical processes, and on a global scale they are an important sink source of atmospheric carbon due to their high carbon density. The purpose of my PhD research …
Global statistics indicate the staggering level of poverty where there are still 1.2 billion people living without access to adequate drinking water and 2.6 billion without access to adequate sanitation facilities. The objectives of my research were to (1) review the status of g…
When the world scheme seems to have shifted from the struggle for a separated entity to the demand for a larger, connected system, Indonesia, paradoxically, began, for one more time, a major experiment in decentralization officially started on January 1, 2001. Many previous cent…