domestic water industry Articles
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Wet dreams – dry realities: lost opportunities for an Australian presence in the global water services industry
Urban water provision, traditionally a local activity, has since the 1990s been drawn into the orbit of global capital accumulation. The largest private water companies that are internationally active are several vertically integrated French and the UK firms. This article discusses reasons for this dominance and contrasts the situation with Australia where the domestic water services industry has ...
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Prediction of urban water demand on the basis of Engel's coefficient and Hoffmann index: case studies in Beijing and Jinan, China
Domestic and industrial water uses are the most important segment of urban water consumption. Traditional urban water demand models are usually based on water consumption quotas or statistical relationships, which usually overestimate urban water demands. The efficiency of domestic and industrial water uses is associated with living standards and levels of industrialization. The correlation ...
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Emphasis should be placed on the involvement of operation team in the design of water park equipment
With the development of domestic water park industry, we find that there are many problems in the operation of domestic water park equipment. In addition to the reasons of operation management and marketing after the opening of water park, there are also many problems caused by inadequate consideration of operational requirements in the planning and design stage. It can be seen that the planning ...
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Comparative use of artificial neural networks for the quality assessment of the water reservoirs of Athens
Neural networks are powerful tools that could explore the basic structure of environmental data. In this work, the most common artificial neural network (ANN) architectures, multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), radial basis function (RBF) and Kohonen's self-organizing maps (SOM), are applied in order to assess the quality of the water reservoirs used for the domestic and industrial water ...
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The potential for desalination in India
The demand for water in India is increasing rapidly owing to progressive increase in the use of water for irrigation, rapid industrialisation, population growth and improving life standards. A holistic approach is therefore required to cope with the freshwater needs of the country. It includes: seawater desalination in coastal areas; brackish water desalination; water purification; water reuse; ...
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Evaluation of the efficiency of polysulfone ultrafiltration membrane-based water purifiers for microbiological decontamination
Indigenously developed polysulfone Ultrafiltration (UF) membrane-based domestic and industrial water purification units were evaluated for their ability to filter bacteria and viruses from water. Escherichia coli (105 cfu/ml) and P1 phage (106 pfu/ml) were filtered through a Domestic Water Purifier (DWP) (dead-end UF unit) and a large-scale spiral water purifier (cross-flow UF unit) and the ...
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Cost recovery in times of demographic change: Portugal's domestic water policy
Cost recovery is a key tenet of the Water Framework Directive, but scalar implications of this in the domestic water sector are rarely addressed. It is more expensive to supply water services to rural populations owing to cost of provision across areas which are extensive yet sparsely populated; however, residents in rural areas often have lower incomes than urban populations. Taking the case of ...
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Nuclear desalination in the Arab world. Part I: relevant data
Middle Eastern and North African countries suffer from a shortage of fresh water resources. Statistical analysis shows that fresh water resources in these countries constitute less than 13% of the average world resources per capita. In the Arab world, the rapid increase in population and an increase in living standards led to a greater demand for fresh water and electricity. Accordingly, the Arab ...
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Assessing the impact of land use change on stream flow in a semi–urban river basin, Maharashtra, India
Historical hydrological data and satellite images acquired over a relatively large river basin were analysed to investigate the impact of the land use/land cover changes on stream flow during 1985 to 2004. Rainfall (from 16 rain gauge stations), stream flow (near basin outlet), and multi–temporal Earth observation (EO) satellite images were used to assess the impact of land use change on stream ...
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Water diaries: a participatory approach to generating gender disaggregated intra-household water use data
Effective domestic water sector management and policy development requires quantitative and qualitative intra-household water use data. However, there are currently limited methods, and efforts, to collect such data. This paper outlines the Water Diary, a participatory research method to generate intra-household water use data. Combining self-reported individual water use and ...
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What Is One Water?
By considering all water, even wastewater, valuable, we open doors The One Water movement in water and wastewater management considers all water valuable, whether stormwater, domestic water, commercial, industrial, municipal, wastewater, or drinking water. It’s a broad movement that may encompass many visions, all converging toward a unified, comprehensive approach to maximizing water ...
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The EU Eco-industry`s export potential
Introduction This report provides the findings to a study commissioned by DGXI of the European Commission and undertaken by ECOTEC Research & Consulting Ltd. The study has been commissioned to provide an analysis of current export activity by the EU eco-industry, the employment effects of this export activity, future export opportunities and to develop appropriate policy recommendations for ...
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The challenges of water governance in Ho Chi Minh City
Population growth, urbanization, pollution and climate change pose urgent water challenges in cities. In this study the sustainability of integrated water resources management in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) was evaluated using the City Blueprint approach. The City Blueprint is a set of 24 dedicated indicators divided over 8 categories, i.e., water security, water quality, drinking water, ...
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Chinese Strategic Environmental Assessment system and its application in water resources development plan of the Yellow River
The changing pattern and intricate correlation between water supply and demand, social development, and ecological conditions over the past decade were presented. To gauge environmental impacts from implementation of new water resources development plan, a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) was carried out. The residential, agricultural, and industrial water demand in 2010 at different ...
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Mind your Business - Putting Water Efficiency on the Map
As part of Water Saving Week, Waterwise asked Liz D’Arcy, one of MOSL’s Portfolio Managers (PfMs) and workstream lead for the newly formed Retailer Wholesaler Group (RWG) Water Efficiency Sub-Group, to reflect on how insight gained from the non-household (NHH) retail water market can be used to drive water efficiency improvements across the sector. As a geographer, with a Masters in ...
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Top Water/ Borehole Drilling Companies in Uganda (East Africa)
Rural water being a source for health, an essential nutrient and a building block for peoples’ lives in local communities cannot be sustained without external support in form of boreholes as they are the ‘surefire’ answer to providing fresh water in rural communities. A borehole is simply a deep-hole or a shaft sunk into the earth purposed forobtainingwater. Boreholes can be ...
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Project - Wellhead Protection Area Delineation and Vulnerability Scoring for the Brantford Airport Wellfield
Client: Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA): 400 Clyde, Cambridge, ON Contact: Sonja Strynatka, P.Geo, Senior Hydrogeologist Key Personnel: Michael Takeda, Spencer Malott, E.J. Wexler The Brantford Airport wellfield, located 6 kilometers west of the Brantford town centre, services a small population of residential and industrial water users. A single well (Airport Well 1) ...
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Pharmaceuticals in water fact sheet
Recent events have led to a growing concern regarding trace pharmaceutical compounds found in drinking supplies across the United States. While pharmaceuticals have been detected in amounts far below the levels considered harmful to humans and there is no evidence demonstrating these pharmaceuticals pose a significant health risk to humans, we understand many consumers will want to protect their ...
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Urban Hydrology
The provision and disposal of water for urban populations is as old as the development of cities themselves. Unrestrained development has made the task ever more difficult and hydrologists and civil engineers face constant pressures to stay on top of the challenges of providing sufficient supplies and adequate treatment/disposal of effluents. Urban areas have long existed as centres of trade, ...
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