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Sediment continuity and augmentation measures

Impaired sediment transport can have numerous adverse impacts on the eco-morphodynamics of the riverscape. If well designed, sediment augmentation measures present a promising mitigation approach at different scales. This chapter focuses on flume experim ...

2023

Atmospheric water harvesting in semi-arid regions by membranes: A techno-economic assessment

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Marina Micari, Xuekui Duan

The availability of a reliable and sufficient amount of water constitutes one of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. The provision of water is still challenging in many regions of the world, especially in arid and semi-arid regions ...

ELSEVIER2023

Continuous monitoring of morphological changes from sediment augmentation by field measurements and flume experiments

Giovanni De Cesare, Christian Mörtl

In this study, we present results from continuous field monitoring and a flume ex-periment of a sediment augmentation measure in a residual flow reach of the Swiss midlands. A straight morphological channel with fixed bed material was constructed to repres ...

2023

Watershed

Dieter Dietz, Ruben Alberto Valdez Juarez, Malcolm Aladé Nadjib Onifadé

WaterShed is an urban structure that takes advantage of usable rainwater to cool ambient air in pedestrian areas, publics spaces and transportation hubs. The system addresses pedestrian thermal comfort in conditions of heatwave, which can be life threateni ...

2022

Stepwells: Reviving India’s Cultural and Traditional Water Storage Systems

Water has been foreseen to be the cause of the next great global crisis. India has 18% of the world population but only 4% of the world’s water resources. This brings us to the important issue that India may lack overall long-term availability of replenish ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Methodology for the Life Cycle Assessment of Clay Masonry from Energy and Water Consumption

Considering the clay masonry production, energy and water’s resources consumption has a high relevance, mainly at raw extraction materials, and transformation phases, highlighting the environmental impacts ensued by these types of activities. Life Cycle As ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Comparing the anti-bacterial performance of chlorination and electrolysis post-treatments in a hand washing water recycling system

Innovative solutions are necessary to enable the decentralized recycling of greywater for applications requiring high-quality water, such as hand washing. While physical barriers such as ultrafiltration membranes effectively prevent the passage of bacteria ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Determination of variables influencing the effectiveness of disinfection of surface water used for human consumption in Costa Rica

Clara Barret

Disinfection of water for human consumption is a challenge to ensure that water is free of pathogens and pollutants while avoiding the formation of potentially harmful undesirable products. The establishment of disinfection facilities must take into accoun ...

2019

Super-fine powdered activated carbon (SPAC) for efficient removal of micropollutants from wastewater treatment plant effluent

Tamar Kohn, Florence Bonvin, Livia Jost, Léa Cécile Randin

In an effort to mitigate the discharge of micropollutants to surface waters, adsorption of micropollutants onto powdered activated carbon (PAC) after conventional wastewater treatment has been identified as a promising technology for enhanced removal of ph ...

Elsevier2016

Hydrological and thermal response modelling based on travel time formulation of water end energy transport in snow-covered alpine catchments

Andrea Rinaldo, Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Francesco Comola

In our contribution we present a semi-distributed model for thermo-hydrologic simulations of snow-covered alpine catchments, based on the travel time formulation of water and energy transport at sub-catchment scale. The output consists of distributed infor ...

2014

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