China is facing a water resources crisis with growing concerns as to the reliable supply of water for agricultural, industrial and domestic needs. High inter-annual rainfall variability and increasing consumptive use across the country exacerbates the situation further and is a constraint on future development. For water sustainability, it is necessary to examine the differences in water demand...

Inorganic arsenic removal from water using low-cost adsorbents is presented in this paper. Selective removal of As(III) and As(V) from water was performed with natural materials (zeolite, bentonite, sepiolite, pyrolusite and limonite) and industrial by-products (waste filter sand as a water treatment residual and blast furnace slag from steel production); all inexpensive and locally available. ...

This study relates public water supply systems, most of which use ground water, to locations of industrial discharge wells and automotive service station discharge wells in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Injection wells from industrial sites and service stations can be prime sources of contamination especially when located in close proximity to public water supply systems where large numbers of ...

The parameters such as temperature, PH, TSS, TDS, ammonia, phenol, cyanide, sulfide, oil and grease, chloride, DO, COD and BOD were taken to assess the water quality of Sirsiya river, central southern Nepal. Water samples were collected from upstream to downstream from the point receiving industrial effluent to Sirsiya river. It receives wastewater burden of more than 250 industries along Bara/...

water samples have been collected from key parts of haraz river along different points andanalyzed for various water quality parameters during winter and spring season. effects of industrial wastes,municipal sewage, fish farming and agricultural runoff on river water quality have been investigated. thesurvey was conducted on along the haraz river (185 km) from near its headwaters at the polour,...

Understanding the changes in water consumption structure in order to take measures for demand control is very important for sustainable water resources management. In this study, using the Southern China area of Nanjing as an example, we employed the information entropy method to analyze the water consumption structure, as well as the grey incidence analysis to analyze synthetic incidence degre...