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A Rapid Spectrofluorometric Method for the Determination of Aluminum at Nano-trace Levels in Some Real, Environmental, Biological, Hemodialysis, Food, Pharmaceutical, and Soil Samples Using 2′,3,4′,5,7-Pentahydroxyflavone
A very simple and non-extractive spectrofluorometric method for the swift determination of aluminum at nano-trace levels using 2′,3,4′,5,7-pentahydroxyflavone (morin) has been developed. Morin reacts in a slig...
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Open AccessRealizing ecosystem-safe hydropower from dams
For clean hydropower generation while sustaining ecosystems, minimizing harmful impacts and balancing multiple water needs is an integral component. One particularly harmful effect not managed explicitly by hy...
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Current Approaches for Resilience Assessment
This chapter provides a brief overview of some of the more established approaches to resilience and risk assessment as practiced in other fields of engineering that may be pertinent to water management infrast...
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Infrastructure-Relevant Storms of the Last Century
Over the past 100 years, numerous water management infrastructures have been constructed to serve the water-related needs of people worldwide (Mitchell 1990). The larger ones are typically reservoirs with a dam a...
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Survey of Water Managers for Twenty-First Century Challenges
This chapter presents the survey results from a cross section of experienced water managers using a set of carefully crafted questions. These questions covered water resources management, infrastructure resili...
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Application of Numerical Atmospheric Models
Intense storms, or extreme rainfall events as they shall be called in this chapter hereafter, pose challenges to infrastructure management and design, and trigger other catastrophic events such as floods, land...
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Sensitivity of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP)
The vital question that motivated this chapter is to what extent are universally accepted, stationary Probable Maximum Precipitation values as published in Hydrometeorological Reports, representative of current a...
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Resilience of Water Management Infrastructure
This chapter presents a compilation of work conducted by the ASCE Task Committee ‘Infrastructure Impacts of Landscape-driven Weather Change’ under the ASCE Watershed Management Technical Committee and the ASCE...
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A Recommended Paradigm Shift in the Approach to Risks to Large Water Infrastructure in the Coming Decades
We propose the adoption of a bottom-up, resource-based vulnerability approach in evaluating the effect of climate and other environmental and societal threats to large water management infrastructure. To effec...
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Integrated groundwater resource management in Indus Basin using satellite gravimetry and physical modeling tools
Reliable and frequent information on groundwater behavior and dynamics is very important for effective groundwater resource management at appropriate spatial scales. This information is rarely available in dev...
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Tidal river management in Bangladesh
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Understanding Surface Water Flow and Storage Changes Using Satellites: Emerging Opportunities for Bangladesh
This paper overviews the monitoring of surface water flow and storage using satellites. The overview is cast in the context of surface water-related problems of Bangladesh and South Asia. The paper then provid...
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Inter-annual Water Storage Changes in Asia from GRACE Data
Time-varying gravity field solutions from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission have been used to investigate the inter-annual changes of hydrologic water storage (∆ S) within Asia...
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Comparison of ordinary kriging and artificial neural network for spatial map** of arsenic contamination of groundwater
In this technical note, we investigate the hypothesis that ‘non-linearity matters in the spatial map** of complex patterns of groundwater arsenic contamination’. The spatial map** pertained to data-driven tec...
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Error Propagation of Satellite-Rainfall in Flood Prediction Applications over Complex Terrain: A Case Study in Northeastern Italy
The study presented in this chapter evaluates the use of satellite rainfall for flood prediction applications in complex terrain basins. It focuses on a major flood event that occurred in October 1996 in a com...
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A Practical Guide to a Space-Time Stochastic Error Model for Simulation of High Resolution Satellite Rainfall Data
Abstract For continual refinement of error models and their promotion in prototy** satellite-based hydrologic monitoring systems, a practical user guide that readers can refer to, is useful. In this chapter,...
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Radial basis function neural network for hydrologic inversion: an appraisal with classical and spatio-temporal geostatistical techniques in the context of site characterization
This paper investigates three techniques for spatial map** and the consequential hydrologic inversion, using hydraulic conductivity (or transmissivity) and hydraulic head as the geophysical parameters of con...
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Spatial Assessment of Water Quality in Peripheral Rivers of Dhaka City for Optimal Relocation of Water Intake Point
In order to meet the ever increasing demand of drinking water, Dhaka Water Supply Authority (DWASA) of Bangladesh has installed a number of deep tube wells that tap the upper aquifers. However, in most parts o...
