The use of artificial neural network (ANN) modeling for prediction and forecasting variables in water resources engineering are being increasing rapidly. Infrastructural applications of ANN in terms of selection of inputs, architecture of networks, training algorithms, and selection of training parameters in different types of neural networks used in water resources engineering have been report...

The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) recently published a document presenting "Grand Challenges for Engineering". This list was proposed by leading engineers and scientists from around the world at the request of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Fourteen topics were selected for these grand challenges, and at least seven can be addressed using the tools and methods of biolo...

Snezhana Bozhinova Dipl-Ing Research Assistant, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria Veronika Hecht Dipl-Ing Research Assistant, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institute of Hydraulic and Water Resources Research, Darmstadt, Germany Dimitar Kisliakov Dr-Ing Associate Professor, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria Ger...

This paper undertakes the economic and financial valuation of the EAPP, a pilot project aimed at transferring the condominial water and sewerage system from Brazil to Bolivia and testing its applicability in the context of private sector participation in service provision. Since its inception in 1998, the EAPP has provided condominial water connections to 1,977 households in eight neighborhoods...

1 Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham 27708, NC, USA 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign 61802, IL, USA 3 Desert Research Institute, Reno 89512, NV, USA 4 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, IA, USA 5 Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Ar...

Access to a sufficient amount of safe water is taken for granted in industrialised nations. Yet, as multiple incidents of contaminated water supplies show, citizens of highly industrialised nations such as Canada may not have access to safe water—the deadly E. coli outbreak in Waterton, Ontario, being but the most visible among many. Municipal engineers may find themselves between enemy lines a...

1School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China 2College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China 3Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2032, USA 4State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 1...

The prediction of river, s discharge rate is one of the important issues in water resources engineering. This issue is very important for the planning, management, and policy making in water resources management, especially in the country like Iran, with limited water resources in line the economic and environmental development. Awareness of how the relationship between rainfall and run...