groundwater infrastructure management Articles
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Necessary driving forces for infrastructure sustainability
The forces and complex interactions that hinder and promote the application of sustainable infrastructures are discussed along with changes that are needed in our economic-mindset for evaluating project costs. Some existing sustainable projects result from favourable economics. However, many fall in the trash basket as a result of so-called unfavourable economics. One of the key driving forces ...
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Engineering Firm Saves Thousands in Labor Costs with Remote Data Collection at Multiple Sites
Overview: Unable to regularly access remote monitoring sites, a Midwest engineering firm turns to cloud-based data management with outstanding results. Challenge: C&E firms often find it difficult to balance the time and cost to monitor remote sites with the need to capture changes as they happen and help their clients avoid millions of dollars in remediation and extended costs. As Senior ...
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Innovative water supply and disposal technologies as integral part of Integrated Water Resources Management: an example from Namibia
In semi-arid to arid countries water supply challenges will increase in the future with demographic and climate change putting pressure on available resources. Water supply and disposal paradigms of the temperate zone are unsuitable to address these challenges. Innovative water supply and wastewater treatment technologies that are embedded into a holistic integrated water resources management ...
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GroundWater Markup Language (GWML) – enabling groundwater data interoperability in spatial data infrastructures
Increasing stress on global groundwater resources is leading to new approaches to the management and delivery of groundwater data. These approaches include the deployment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to enable online data interoperability amongst numerous and heterogeneous data sources. Often an important component of an SDI is a global domain schema, which serves as a central structure ...
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Americans Drilling Deeper for Groundwater
The practice is widespread, but ultimately unsustainable Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have completed an ambitious analysis of decades of data on 11.8 million water wells in the United States and determined that Americans are drilling deeper for groundwater than ever before. They focused on areas around the nation known to be heavily dependent on groundwater, ...
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