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Water quality is one of the most important element for life support and contribute at the sustainable develop of human society. Following the technical and economic transformations taking place in industry, waste water remediation system required new approaches to management in this area. It recorded an increase in the variety and complexity of the types and quantities of waste generated in the last years and for administrated this situation are necessary new methods and equipments of waste neutralisation or trans...

The water resources of a location has determinant importance for the development strategy of all activities of population as from these factors are depending the possibilities of a location development. In this study were treated the issues of territorial definition of Peja’s Puddle Lumbardhi as well as the net of running water and water sources of the Puddle and the average bringing water of these flows and resources. It was treated as well the issues which concerns the orografi, pedological elements and climac...

The groundwater quality survey can be made by using monitoring and analysis tools that are able to manipulate time-series large datasets showing a spatial reference. Data correlation with the spatial distribution of the hydrogeological structures is compulsory. Within the urban environment the problem show a larger complexity because of the infrastructure interaction. Within the collaboration framework between several Spanish and Romanian institutions a management, analysis, and modeling hydrogeological platform f...

The paper presents study of hydrologic drought in the period of low flows for the region of Toplica river in the central South of Serbia. Seven gauge stations from the Republic of Serbia Hydro-Meteorological Service (RHMZS) Surface Water Observation Network serve the studied region. These gauge stations represent river basins with the area range 180-2083 km2. Gauge stations are functional for 47 to 56 years. A review of available drought analysis is given, with focus on the studied region. Temporal and spatial var...

In the given work statistical processing of the existing base of long-term historical data of the River Kura «Mtkvari» water quality parameters (some biogenic substances: nitrate NO3 and nitrite NO2 ions) for the period of 1980 – 1989 in some large settlements is carried out, in particular, above and below cities Borjomi, Gori, Tbilisi and Rustavi. Results for the small settlement Khertvisi located close to border with Turkey were also used as the representative data. There is offered the simple methodology of...

Long-term periodic measurements of content of radioactive gas – radon Rn-222 in tap water for different districts of Tbilisi city depending on time (during the period from January, 2009 till December, 2009) were carried out. It is shown, that according to the level of radon content in tap water the investigated districts can be divided conditionally into 2 groups: with rather big radon content – more than 1 Bq L-1 (ranged in the interval 2.15 ± 1.17 Bq L-1, districts Vake, Saburtalo, Ortachala), and districts...

There are presented results of periodic measurements of radioactive gas - radon content in sea, river and drinking water in resort zone Ureki-Shekvetili at the Black Sea coast of Georgia during the period from September, 2008 till October, 2009. It is shown, that the level of radon content ranges in interval 0.12 – 0.44 Bq/L in sea water, 0.15 - 0.58 Bq/L and 0.13 – 0.59 Bq/L in river water for river Natanebi and river Supsa, accordingly, 7.9 – 14.0 Bq/L and 1.19 – 4.35 Bq/L in drinking tap and artesian wa...

Pollution abatement of wastewaters coming from textile industry still remains a major concern for environmental risk, representing serious threats both for environment and human health. Among the modern techniques the microemulsification appears to be one of the most promising methods, being used in various processes such as separation, concentration, extraction, etc. This paper presents the application of two microemulsion systems: water/Brij 30/iso-propanol/pine oil and water/Brij 30/ethyl acetate in removal of ...

We analyze long term series of mean monthly river runoff in the period 1931–2007 to characterize drought severity in 118 gauging stations across the Czech Republic. A threshold level method is employed using Q95 discharge as the threshold to identify periods during which the flow is below limit and thus considered as drought. We use both annual and monthly variable threshold. The drought parameters are the deficit volume and the duration. We observe the relation between deficit volume and the physical and geogra...

The paper presents the results of precise monitoring of the regime of groundwater at the territory of the Geophysical Observatory of IDG RAS "Mikhnevo". Variations of water level in the isolated aquifer depend on regime controlling factors that have episodic and stationary effects on the aquifer. Detecting and studying the reaction of groundwater to stationary lunisolar tides are of special interest. The tidal effect in variations of groundwater level can be considered as a probing signal for diagnostics of stress...

Canal Bega traverses Romania (49 km) and Serbia (75 km) discharge through Tisa in the Danube River. Between 1760 and 1958 functioned as a waterway. After 2000, one proposed a strategy for the sustainable development of the canal: the canal rehabilitees, the source of the water supply, the emissary for the sewage, the irrigations, producing by the electric power, tourism and recreation. This paperwork is made an analysis of the sustainable development of the canal by introducing a computation scheme and realizing a...

The increasing of life quality of population and the environmental protection through the achievement of “good water situation” is one of primary tasks resulting from the Directive on Water No. 2000/60/EC of the European parliament and the Council. To accomplish the conditions and to achieve the European standards in the area of drinking water supply and disposal with municipal wastewater, Slovakia can use the finances from European Union since 2000. The article discusses the ways and organization of municipal...

It is known, that there are two qualitatively different sources of supply of Tbilisi by potable water - underground (artesian wells near settlements Natakhtari, Bulachauri, Mukhrani) and surface (Tbilisi reservoir filled with waters of the rivers Aragvi and Iori). The work gives the values of the main ions (Ca2+, Mg2+, SO4 2-, Cl-, HCO3-, CO3 2-) and water hardness in drinking (tap) water in different districts of Tbilisi city (the largest settlement in Georgia). There have been received the values of concentratio...

The reservoirs created behind dams built on the main interior rivers of Romania as well as on the Danube have increased the country’s available volume of usable water. The reservoirs’ location and the way they were managed resulted in a decrease of the retention capacity, due to large quantities of sediments accumulated in these lakes. The reservoirs on the rivers Bistriţa, Buzău, Ialomiţa, Argeş and Olt have been affected the worst by the silting process. On average, the values range from 0 - 25\% of the ...

The paper presents the structure of an interactive web platform for water integrated management, accessible on Internet. The users of the web platform have unlimited access at a lot of interest information from water integrated management, like: legislation in domain, diverse types of management systems, links to the others speciality sites, a discussion forum, cases studies, presentation of technologies for solving of the management water problems, etc. Through the web technological platform, the visitors / users...

This paper highlights the fact that environmental issues in the border regions are numerous. These problems in border regions are endemic to many countries. At global scale of the whole planet, the importance of transboundary pollution of the air, water, soil is far from negligible (according to reports submitted to the UN). Almost 50\% of our planet earth (excluding Antarctica) is located in international water collection tanks. In this area about 40\% of world’s population lives, stretching over more than 200 ...

As the water has a vital role in human life and economic development, its shortage can cause some economical, agricultural, industrial and environmental problems. These problems are more prominent in warm and dry regions. Therefore, in such areas the water resources management as well as the treatment and recycling of the mine drainage have the great importance. In the underground and open pit mines, we usually deal with the huge amounts of the contaminated water. In this research, by considering of the statistics...

This paper aims to reflect some concerns regarding the waste management and to highlight its peculiarities. Waste management methods differ depending on the degree of development of a country, the type of area (rural, urban, industrial, residential) and the type of waste. Wastes covered by this article are non-hazardous and hazardous municipal waste (household and similar waste from commerce, industry and institutions), in addition with several other specific waste streams: packaging waste, construction and demoli...

The work presents the concerns and contributions of the research collective in the hydrology and water management field of the Hydrotechnics Faculty, “Politehnica” University – Romania, from last years. In the work are taken into account: the accidental inundations produced by the cross and longitudinal of the defense works failure; the water courses rehabilitation, the assessment and re ecology techniques of the water body; modeling of the eco hydrological systems; economic analysis of the catchments proper...

The authors present the update stage of Braila Plain water resouces. Within the surface waters, the Buzau, Siret, Calmatui rivers as well as the Danube are included, as they are water suppliers for Braila Plain, in the absence of other important water resources. The lakes are few in number, with a low volume of water and a high chemism. The smalldepth underground waters exist as a continuously ground water layer and the high-depth ones are found especially in the Fratesti layers, but these have a high mineralizati...

The water pollution on marine ecosystems could cause health problems through water contamination and in a direct contact, when used for recreation aims, or in indirect way, by the negative impacts to marine ecosystems and by consuming of polluted marine products. The samplings of marine water (2007) are taken from the stratum water surface about 10 cm, at a distance 10-20 m by sea coast. At sandy beaches, where water depth in sea coast is shallow, water samples are taken at distance 10-30 m from sea coast with wat...

Konya is the biggest city of Turkey in terms of area and agricultural land, on the other hand sixth biggest city in terms of population. Because of the decrease of rainfall and increase in temperature, the agricultural production and daily water consumption are effected negatively in last years. Rainfall, one of the basic parameters of the hydrological cycle, has a big importance to determine the water budgets and to improve the water supply policy. In this study, monthly total rainfall data belong to Konya betwee...

One of the main purposes of GIS is to provide organization with increased information and analyzing spatial data. A GIS can become increasingly more valuable in prediction of quantitative or qualitative variables in no measured locations when coupled to Artificial Intelligence (AI). ANN is one of the AI fields that is a highly simplified model for the biological structure of a human brain. An ANN when linked to GIS, can be useful for evaluating, monitoring, decision making and of course predicting. In this study, ...

The climate change due to global warming is accepted among the greatest environmental problems resulted from the human effects of increasing energy consumption, urbanization and deforestation events threatening the healthy life of people and environment. Many results of the climate change due to global warming can be estimated as the melting of snow covers, terrestrial and sea icebergs, replacement of climate zones, frequent formation of severe weather events, floods that gain strength in time, severe droughts, fo...

Natural sources of water, especially fresh water resources, are of significant importance for the population of each country. One of the major problems of the research of water state is the determination of influence of anthropogenic impact factors on water quality. In the given work there is executed statistical processing of the existing base of longterm historical data of the River Kura (Mtkvari) water quality parameters (some physical-chemical parameters and the main ions) for the period of 1980–1989, and th...

The purpose of this study is the identification of financial cost of wastewater treatment technology/plant prior to discharge into river Lumbardh of Prizren municipality The identification of actual condition of the sewerage(Canal network) of the municipality of Prizren, calculation of the quantity and the quality of the waters of the (sewerage) before discharging it in the river Lumbardh, is the essence of this study. So that later it can be possible to plan the different locations for putting the equipment and t...

The Fenton process, one of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), has been widely implemented to remove COD and color for dye wastewater as a pre-treatment or posttreatment process. In recent years, Fenton-like processes have received considerable attention in wastewater removal. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the optimal operational conditions of the Fenton- like process by using raw limonite ore at various concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and raw limonite ore for treatment of dye wastewa...

Vlasina lake in Southeast Serbia is classified as an Area of Distinct Land Use. Due to high environmental protection standards, the Master Plan of the area forsees the need for high levels of protection from waste water, storm water, and sediment. The storm waste water and sediment management system implies infrastructure that consists of open channels and gutters, leading to detention basins. Prior to release into the lake, storm water and sediment from the immediate lake bank area are treated and managed within ...

In this work are presented the results of determination of physical, chemical and bacteriological parameters of water in five levels (7,40; 11,40; 18,40; 28,40 and 30,40 m) of the artificial “Radoniqi” lake, in order to select the most convenient level that offers necessary treatments to be prepared for drinking water. The obtained results show that the water of the “Radoniqi” lake is of a very high quality, soft and the water of the third level is the most suitable to be prepared for drinking after necess...

Surface and ground waters are used for potable water supply. Some of they contain iron and manganese. The presence of these impurities in natural waters is undesirable due to their tendency to oxidize and precipitate under a variety of conditions, causing both aesthetic and treatment water problems. The possibility to use zeolite for iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) removal in low concentrations from water is examined in this paper. Ion-exchange process to the maximum allowable limits of 0.3 mg/L for iron and 0.05 mg/...

Performing a numerical analysis of water well drilling sector of Turkey was aimed in this study. Within this purpose, number of the machinery in equipment pool of the institutions and companies which are involved in the water well drilling, yearly drilling quantities, drilling equipment preferences and geological data of 2640 water well drilling boreholes opened in 73 provinces between the years of 1998 – 2006 and the results below have been reached: The Municipalities in Turkey meet 95 \% of their drinking wate...

Rocks deep below the surface store heat and for every 100 m in depth the temperature increases by approximately 3oC. When the mines were closed, the mine galleries flooded. The heat of the rocks warms water, which is used as input to heat pumps for heating and cooling of buildings. The Remining-Lowex Project aims to demonstrate the use of water in abandoned coalmines as a source of renewable energy and to prove its economic viability. This new approach for utilization of sustainable energy from worked out coalmine...

The results of investigations in physical – chemical, bacteriological and thermodynamic characteristics of drinking water of wells, taken from some village in some primary school of Vushtrri Municipality are presented. Taking into consideration all important parameters we found they were within given limits , just temperature that is higher than given limits, so analysis of water samples for thermo tolerant faecal coli forms which are carried out by passing a measured quantity of water through sterile filter tol...

A finite difference method for solving the initial boundary value problem for one dimensional nonlinear system equations for investigating the quality of water on the model of shallow water flow over on isolated ringe in a class of discontinuous functions is suggested. In order to develop the numerical algorithm the special auxiliary problem having some advantages over the main problem is introduced. The solution obtained from the auxiliary problem represents all physical nature of the investigated problem with a ...

Low concentration of chlorinates maybe found in wastewater, contaminated soils and air due to different industrial sources. Low level of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)’s could be removed by adsorption, incineration and biofiltration methods. These methods have some disadvantages such as removal efficiency or high operation cost. Chlorine has been removed from the chlorinated aliphatic compounds under anaerobic conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate biological treatment of DCM and CT in high flow ...

Almost any places in the world, people are using groundwater for drinking and usage needs because of reduced surface and spring waters sources in last decate. Settlement areas, agricultural areas, solid waste areas, industrial areas, waste water discharge areas have always potential to pollute the aquifer media. Boreholes areas for abstracting the ground water has to be picked up not to be carrying risk getting pollution on surface. So it’s necessary for the engineers that hydrogeologic properties has to be choo...

Methods of estimating yield from ungaged watershed may be by using of climatic factors, only geographic location and watershed and climatic factors. Methods for estimating yields, as regional analysis, water accounting, direct runoff method, climatic and geographic factors, should be considered as giving estimates so broad that the influence of specific factors have large margins or error. Hydrologic simulation models in watershed modelling use mathematical equations to calculate results like runoff volume or peak...

Naturally occurring arsenic (As) in groundwater of sedimentary aquifer has emerged as a global problem, and issue of major environmental health concern. Most groundwater from the Terai Basin of Nepal is contaminated by excess arsenic. Such groundwater is widely used for drinking and irrigation purpose and makes easy means of direct entrance of arsenic into human body and food chain; and that affects human health adversely. This paper evaluates the state of arsenic contamination in the six Terai districts of Nepal ...

Surface and groundwater resources are important assets for the economic and social welfare of the population of a given area; they are renewable and with proper management, they contribute substantially to sustained development. Unfortunately, the expansion of industrial and agricultural activities lead to increasing withdrawal of water from the aquifers, excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers and (frequently illicit) disposal of industrial waste. This results in rapid reduction in the quantity and quality of...

In this study, natural radioactivity removal methods have been compared for present drinking water supplies (privately owned wells or small water works) which have radioactivity values higher than determined standards (WHO \& EPA standards). There are several methods known to remove radioactivity from water such as aeration to remove “Rn222”, adsorption by granular activated carbon (GAC) to remove “Uranium”, ion exchange methods (IX) to remove “Ra266 and Ra288”, reverse osmosis (RO) to remove “Gross ...

WATER-MAP is a 2-year project funded under the Community Initiative INTERREG III B ARCHIMED and implemented by nine partners from six countries (Greece, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, Turkey, and Palestinian Authority). The project looks at the topic of integrated groundwater resources management. The aim is to provide scientifically reliable information to the local authorities in order to develop optimal spatial development strategies. Within the framework of the project, vulnerability maps are generated in order to dete...

One of the deepest excavations in Sofia history are related to Sofia Metro Expansion project, in the section between the future Metro Stations 8 (Sofia University) and 9 (Vasil Levsky Stadium). In this section the metro tunnels are being driven with the help of a tunnel boring machine delivered by the Japanese company “Taisei Corporation”. One of the deepest locations is nearby Vasil Levsky Stadium where the ventilation shaft is situated. According to the design, the depth of the ventilation shaft is 21 m. The...

This paper describes removal of Pb(II) ions from aqueous solutions using NaOH modified pine barks (Pinus nigra). Chemical modification and its enhancement effect on adsorption capacity for heavy metal treatment process have been investigated in this article. Changes of the surface properties after modification were examined by the FT-IR analysis. Maximum adsorption capacity was 49 mg/g at pH 8 and during about 180 min contact time (for 35 mg/L initial concentration with 2.5 g/L solid-to-liquid ratio) These modific...

The article describes electrolytic waste water treatment methods which were applied for industrial waste water treatment, particularly from energy industry, leaking mining waste waters, color waters from different industries and for municipal waste waters.

As we have already approached the 21st Century, there is a growing need for management and utilization of natural resources for its optimal beneficial use with the concurrent technologies. The demands for the fresh water are increasing rapidly requiring holistic management of fresh water as a finite and vulnerable source.. Thus knowledge about water quality of the rivers for the effective management has become most interest aspect. Haraz is a basic river in northern Iran that flows northward from foot of Mount Dam...

Total hydroelectric potential of Slovak streams are used more than 70\%-, whereas the average of water energy of energy consumption is 20\%. This result was secured by 21 Great water power stations with a performance advanced than 10 MW. Currently hydroelectric potential of Slovak republic is used approx. 57,8\%-, the potential of Small water power plants approx. 11\% -. [6] The Small Water Power Plants (SWPP) are characteristic by their construction and operation without any negative effect to our environment as ...

Sedimentation and corrosion potential are the major problems that exit in all industries particularly in water industry which cause decrease of public health, water quality depletion, facilities and piping equipment scales. Thus their control leads to promotion of water health and quality. The purpose of this research is determination of the potential in drinking water network in Behshahr city, north of Iran.We used major indexes such as Langelier Index, Ryzner Index and Corrosion index. Samples are taken from 9 a...

The surface properties of natural Bentonite can be greatly modified by simple ion-exchange with cationic surfactant and this organo-bentonite is highly effective in removing organic compounds from water. In this study bentonite was treated with Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chloride (ADBAC). In sorption experiments, each batch test sample was prepared with 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0 g Bentonite (B) and Modified Bentonite (MB) separately together with aqueous Phenol solution. Adsorption of 10 and 50 mgL-1 Phenol on to B and...

Imam Khomeini petrochemical co. is one of the biggest oil producer centers across Iran. Aromatic unit is one of the eleven units of corporation. Hygienic and industrial wastewaters are flow in swage system of the unit. Industrial wastewater consist a considerable volume of swage and produced in 9 different section of aromatic unit. Wastewater of this unit evacuate to the seawater without forwarding through the suitable water treatment system. With purpose of qualitative and quantitative study of aromatic unit’s ...

The purpose of this study is the identification of the current state of sewerage network in the Prizren Municipality and calculation of the quantity and quality of wastewaters in the sewerage network prior to discharge in Lumbardhi river. This is done in order to enable location of various points for the installation of facilities which shall be used for wastewater treatment in this municipality. The definition of wastewaters, their quality, the percentage of citizens with access to sewerage network are some of th...