The ability of West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) to move between fresh and salt water raises the question of whether manatees drink salt water. Water turnover rates were estimated in captive West Indian manatees using the deuterium oxide dilution technique. Rates were quantified in animals using four experimental treatments: (1) held in fresh water and fed lettuce (N=4), (2) held in sal...

The seasonal cycle of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) along the Angolan Coast is investigated using observations and a regional ocean model. model reproduces main characteristic SSS coast, such as freshwater discharge signature off Congo River plume low-salinity observed in February/March October/November coast. also two maxima salinity June/July December/January. analysis salt budget reveals that s...

We analyze the management of a coastal aquifer under seawater intrusion using distributed control methods. The aquifer’s state is taken as the water head elevation, which varies with time and in space since extraction, natural recharge and lateral water flows vary with time and in space. The water head, in turn, induces a temporalspatial seawater intrusion process, which changes the volume of f...

this experiment was carried out to study the effect of sodium chloride from drinking water and feed intake on the quality of egs from laying hens. four hundred and twenty native and white leghorn laying hens ranging from 36 to 43 weeks of age were used. seven experimental treatments containing different levels of salt supplied by feed and/or drinking water were compared. increasing salt int...

Climate change, which includes increases in temperature, changes in rainfall patterns, sea level rise, salt-water intrusion and a higher probability of extreme weather events such as flooding and droughts, is recognised as a global issue (Bates et al. 2008). The negative effects of these changes are likely to be felt more strongly in the less developed world compared to developed countries, as ...

Variability of groundwater quality parameters is linked to various processes such as weathering, organic matter degradation, aerobic respiration, iron reduction, mineral dissolution and precipitation, cation exchange and mixing of salt water with fresh water. Multivariate statistical analyses such as principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were applied to the ...

Citation: Bergo NM, Signori CN, Amado AM, Brandini FP and Pellizari VH (2017) The Partitioning of Carbon Biomass among the Picoand Nano-plankton Community in the South Brazilian Bight during a Strong Summer Intrusion of South Atlantic Central Water. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:238. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00238 The Partitioning of Carbon Biomass among the Picoand Nano-plankton Community in the South Bra...

Campine Canals, in the north-eastern part of Flanders Region Belgium, between Meuse river and Port Antwerp. The region is densely populated with limited water resources vulnerable for shortages. impact climate change on salt intrusion Albert Canal, area’s major surface source drinking production, studied. Salt simulations are conducted by means a conceptual mass balance model canal network comb...

Coastal aquifers involve varying conditions in time and space, owing to the occurrence of free and moving boundaries, such as the water table, seepage face and saltwater intrusion interface. A fast Updating Procedure (FUP) is developed for solving these interfaces in steady and transient conditions with the finite element method. Several test examples, which involve confined and phreatic ground...

Seawater intrusion represents a high risk for the water supply, agriculture and industry activities in lower Seybouse region of North-Eastern Algeria. In order to analyze this risk, three-dimensional model was developed using MODFLOW MT3DMS codes predict seawater coastal aquifer. The application indicates that groundwater withdrawals result continuous decrease level an increase chloride concent...