Pressures on urban, peri-urban and rural water and agricultural systems are increasingly complex with multiple interacting stresses and impacts. As a way of addressing these issues there has been increasing consideration as to how to build and manage resilience in these complex social-ecological systems. This paper presents a case study of the role of water recycling for agricultural use within...

Ground-water flow modeling is an important tool frequently used in studies of ground-water systems. Reviewers and users of these studies have a need to evaluate the accuracy or reasonableness of the ground-water flow model. This report provides some guidelines and discussion on how to evaluate complex ground-water flow models used in the investigation of ground-water systems. A consistent threa...

background: the environmental degradation products of pesticides may enter drinking water and result in serious health problems. objective: to evaluate the occurrence of insecticides in drinking surface and ground water in dakahlyia governorate, northern egypt in 2011. methods: we studied blood samples collected from 36 consecutive patients diagnosed with pesticides poisoning and 36 tap drinkin...

Yanfang Wang, Yanjun Shen,* Yaning Chen and Ying Guo 1 Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water-Saving, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050021, China 2 Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 10049, China 3 State Key Laborato...

Intermontane basins in the Trans-Pecos region of westernmost Texas and northern Chihuahua, Mexico, are target areas for disposal of interstate municipal sludge and have been identified as possible disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste. Understanding ground water movement within and between these basins is needed to assess potential contaminant fate and movement. Four associated basin a...

background : the aim of this study was to obtain new data which would be valuable to develop programs for future planning of mosquito controls in in western iran. methods : larvae and adult collections were carried out from different habitats using standard dipping and animal baited trap methods during may, june and july 2012 in two provinces (kurdistan and kermanshah) in the west of iran. char...

A. J . KING*, K. A. WARD , P. O’CONNOR , D. GREEN , Z. TONKIN* AND J. MAHONEY* *Freshwater Ecology, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Heidelberg, Vic., Australia Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, Shepparton, Vic., Australia Forest Management, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Tatura, Vic., Australia Murray-...

Age-and sex-dependent characteristics of Mediterranean horse mackerel Trachurus mediterraneus from Sevastopol coastal waters (Black Sea, Ukraine) at the period of 2008-2010 were studied. The alaninand aspartataminotransferase (ALT and AST) activities in the liver and oligopeptides concentration in blood were measured in male and female at the age of 1-3 years. Significant age-dependent changes ...