Ross River virus is a common mosquito-borne arbovirus responsible for outbreaks of polyarthritic disease throughout Australia. To better understand climatic factors preceding outbreaks, we compared seasonal and monthly rainfall and temperature trends in outbreak and nonoutbreak years at four epidemic-prone locations. Our analyses showed that rainfall in outbreak years tended to be above average...

The study of river water quality plays an important role in assessing the pollution status and health of the water bodies. Human-induced activities such as domestic activities, aquaculture, agriculture and industries have detrimentally affected the river water quality. Pinang River is one of the important rivers in Balik Pulau District that supplies freshwater for human consumption. A total of ...

The main content of the new European Water Framework Directive is presented. Within its river basin management approach, a special mention of coastal waters status is made. Among the issues at stake are the setting up of river basin management plans, including coastal waters, and water quality assessment system leading to an harmonized definition of quality objectives and their appropriate indi...

In Dhaka City, Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) supply drinking water and provides sanitation services since 1963 to the city dwellers. About 10 million people depend on the supply of drinking water and sanitation services provided by DWASA. At present DWASA is dependent more on the surface water than the under ground water because of over extraction of ground water2. Every yea...

Arsenic is released from various geothermal fields in the central North Island of New Zealand, into the Waikato River. Arsenic concentrations in the river water typically range from 0.02 to 0.06 mg/L. A review of As behaviour in this large catchment system is presented, based on over 10 years of water quality monitoring data and the results of more detailed, specific studies of As speciation an...

OBJECTIVES The main objective of the present article is to assess and evaluate the characteristics of the Nile water system, and identify the major sources of pollution and its environmental and health consequences. The article is also aimed to highlight the importance of water management via re-use and recycle of treated effluents for industrial purpose and for cultivation of desert land. ME...

Dissolved oxygen (DO) content is a critical measure of the ability of water bodies to support healthy aquatic ecosystems. To better understand DO behaviour in large cold-region rivers, a onedimensional water quality model is setup for a ~200 km reach of the lower Athabasca River below Fort McMurray, Alberta using the Mike-11 modelling system. A river-ice model is applied to reproduce ice condit...

Anthropogenic climate change has impacted and will continue to impact the natural environment and people around the world. Increasing temperatures and altered rainfall patterns combined with socio-economic factors such as population changes, land use changes and water transfers will affect flows and nutrient fluxes in river systems. The Ganga river, one of the largest river systems in the world...

With the passage of time the impacts of natural hazards continue to increase around the world. The globalization and growth of human societies and their escalating complexity and river flooding will further increase the risks of natural hazards. Flood prediction and control are one of the greatest challenges facing the world today, which have become more frequent and severe due to the effects o...

Attending Psychiatrist, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA, Fellowship Director, VA-New England Healthcare Engineering Partnership, White River Junction, VT, USA and Assistant Professor, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA Informatics Researcher, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA, Associate Center Director for Biomedical Informatics, Massachusetts Veterans Epidem...