--A historic look at the Colorado River will illustrate the dras­ tic effects of human activity on most Western rivers. Engineering features for the management of water and electric power have resulted in increased evapora­ tion, associated salinity, and other physicochemical changes; drastic reduction in many native plant and animal populations; increasing populations of intro­ duced species; ...

This paper discusses the development of control algorithms for the urban wastewater system. This system is considered to comprise of sewer system, wastewater treatment plant and receiving watercourse. Since control actions are affecting the water quality in the river, river water quality based objectives, rather than conventional criteria such as overflow volumes or loads, are applied in this s...

this study is focused on developing an integrated optimization-simulation based genetic algorithm model (iosga) to develop the operational policies for a multi-purpose reservoir system. the objective function of the optimization model is considered to be a linear function of reliability (rel), resiliency (res), and vulnerability (vul) of the river-reservoir system. genetic algorithm (ga) is emp...

Storm water overflow from the combined sewer system might result in a sudden devastating impact to the local ecosystem in an urban river environment. In order to assess overflow pollution load during tropical rainfall, a web-based share vision modelling system is organized and designed in this study to investigate the resultant water quality impacts from both spatial and temporal aspects simult...

Over a period of 2 yr eels were collected at several sites along the river Rhine as well as from adjacent waters and examined for Anguillicola crassus in the swimbladder. Additionally eels were collected once from a site on the river Naab (Danube system). All eels were searched for both juvenile and adult stages of A. crassus, revealing prevalences of 80% in eels from the river Rhine and 39% in...

Abstract This paper presents the intelligent techniques approach for flood monitoring using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite images. We applied artificial neural networks and Self-Organizing Kohonen Maps (SOMs), to SAR image segmentation and classification. Our approach was used to process data from different SAR satellite instruments (ERS-2/SAR, ENVISAT/ASAR, RADARSAT-1/2) for differen...

“Hydromax” is the river flow forecasting system for the early warning of extreme hydrological events (floods as well as low waters) in the Meuse river basin and its tributaries. Hydromax provides in real-time short-term predictions of river flows based on past rainfall and river flow measurements, and long-term flood forecasting based on meteorological forecasts. It is now successfully in routi...

On the basis of comprehensive analysis on connotation, assessment methods and index system of river health, combined with the national river health assessment pilot project, river health assessment system is improved by increasing indicators and correcting their weights. The weights of ecological health and functional health of each zone in the national ecological function zoning are revised. A...