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Pedro Martínez-Santos, José Antonio Cerván, Beatriz Cano, Silvia Díaz-Alcaide
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Water and wireless coverage were evaluated in a rural commune of southern Mali. All improved water sources in the area were checked for operability, accessibility, and water quality, while wireless coverage was tested by means of smartphones, phone calls...
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Jie Yu, Le Xu, Xiang Xie, Dibo Hou, Pingjie Huang, Guangxin Zhang and Hongjian Zhang
As a core part of protecting water quality safety in water distribution systems, contamination event detection requires high accuracy. Previously, temporal analysis-based methods for single sensor stations have shown limited performance as they fail to c...
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Silvia Díaz-Alcaide, Pedro Martínez-Santos and Fermín Villarroya
Groundwater represents an essential resource in sub-Saharan Africa, where several hundred million people rely on aquifers for domestic supply. This paper presents a method to map groundwater potential in the Republic of Mali based on a spatially-distribu...
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Hao Wu, Xiaojun Wang, Shamsuddin Shahid, Mao Ye
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Understanding the changes in water consumption structure in order to take measures for demand control is very important for sustainable water resources management. In this study, using the Southern China area of Nanjing as an example, we employed the inf...
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Hao Wu, Xiaojun Wang, Shamsuddin Shahid and Mao Ye
Understanding the changes in water consumption structure in order to take measures for demand control is very important for sustainable water resources management. In this study, using the Southern China area of Nanjing as an example, we employed the inf...
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James Horne
Many countries and regions have struggled to put in place adequate water information systems to assist with sustainable water management. This article describes and assesses the key components of Australia?s water information and data systems, with parti...
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Francesco Galioto, Meri Raggi and Davide Viaggi
The paper explores how agricultural water pricing could contribute to lowering water demand when uses are unobserved (asymmetric information). The topic of the paper is justified by the fact that most water authorities worldwide do not control water uses...
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Giulio Conte, Andrea Bolognesi, Cristiana Bragalli, Sara Branchini, Alessandro De Carli, Chiara Lenzi, Fabio Masi, Antonio Massarutto, Marco Pollastri and Ilaria Principi
The excessive use of water is damaging European groundwater and rivers: their environmental conditions are often below the ?good status? that?according to Water Framework Directive 2000/60?should be reached by 2015. The already critical situation is tend...
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Kicheol Lee, Jeongjun Park and Gigwon Hong
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Erdem Emin Maras, Kadir Dönmez and Yeliz Emecen
First responders to forest fires, especially in areas that cannot be reached by land, are carried out by helicopters. In large forest lands, the necessity of helicopters to reach fire areas in the shortest time reveals the importance of heliport location...
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Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Jacinto Estima, Jorge Marques, Ivo Gamito, Alexandre Serra, Leonardo Moura, Ana Margarida Ricardo, Luís Mendes and Rui M. L. Ferreira
Flood events are becoming more severe, causing significant problems to human communities, including physical, psychological, and material damage. For both flood forecasting in emergency response situations and flood mapping, georeferencing and data curat...
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José Marcelo Rodrigues Pereira, Clebson do Carmo Raimundo, Dirceu Silveira Reis, Jr., Francisco das Chagas Vasconcelos, Jr. and Eduardo Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins
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Mirjana Radulovic, Sanja Brdar, Minucer Mesaro?, Tin Lukic, Stevan Savic, Biljana Basarin, Vladimir Crnojevic and Dragoslav Pavic
Groundwater is one of the most important natural resources for reliable and sustainable water supplies in the world. To understand the use of water resources, the fundamental characteristics of groundwater need to be analyzed, but in many cases, in situ ...
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Morto Baiém Fandé, Cristina Ponte Lira and Gil Penha-Lopes
The increased exposure to coastal flooding in low-lying coastal areas is one of the consequences of sea-level rise (SLR) induced by climate changes. The coastal zone of Guinea-Bissau contains significant areas of low elevation and is home to most of the ...
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Yong Tian and Mutao Huang
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) cause environmental problems worldwide. Continuous monitoring and forecasting of harmful algal blooms are necessary for marine resources managers to detect the intensity and spatial extent of HABs and provide early warnings to...
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Sina Shabani, Antonio Candelieri, Francesco Archetti and Gholamreza Naser
This article proposes a new general approach in short-term water demand forecasting based on a two-stage learning process that couples time-series clustering with gene expression programming (GEP). The approach was tested on the real life water demand da...
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Sina Shabani, Antonio Candelieri, Francesco Archetti and Gholamreza Naser
This article proposes a new general approach in short-term water demand forecasting based on a two-stage learning process that couples time-series clustering with gene expression programming (GEP). The approach was tested on the real life water demand da...
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Anildo Monteiro Caldas, Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra, Renata Cristina Araújo Costa, Fernando Cartaxo Rolim Neto, Marcelo Zanata, Roberto Da Boa Viagem Parahyba, Luis Filipe Sanches Fernandes and Fernando António Leal Pacheco
In many regions across the planet, flood events are now more frequent and intense because of climate change and improper land use, resulting in risks to the population. However, the procedures to accurately determine the areas at risk in regions influenc...
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David Naranjo-Gil
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Hospitals are using more sophisticated and comprehensive management information systems to implement multiple strategic policies towards water cost saving and water quality enhancement. However, they do not always achieve the intended strategic goals. Th...
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