The southeastern United States is one of the most rapidly growing human population regions in continental United States, and as the population increases, the demand for commercial, industrial, and residential water will also increase (USWRC, 1978). Forest species type, stand age, and the climate all influence the amount of water use and yield from these areas (Swank et al., 1988). Because fores...

introduction increasing world population is facing critically depletion of water resources, which will be along with increasing food demands to cover the human needs all over the world. therefore, water scarcity is increasingly a major limitation for increased agricultural production and food security in this century. the scarcity of qualified water, has made farmers to consider the water of ma...

As software organizations continue to move toward Web-based systems development, they often assign or outsource such projects to small teams of highly qualified, but often relatively young, developers. Frequently, the developers’ attitude is less than positive toward software engineering practices—particularly software process improvement initiatives and metrics collection. Part of the problem ...

In the South African National Water Act (NWA, No 36 of 1998), the ecological Reserve is defined as the quality and quantity of water required to ensure appropriate protection of water resources, so as to secure ecologically sustainable development and use. Aquatic ecosystems are recognised as the core location of water resources, and although considerable progress has been made in developing me...

Traditional agriculture in rainfed uplands of India has been experiencing low agricultural productivity as the lands suffer from poor soil fertility, susceptibility to water erosion and other external pressures of development and climate change. A shift toward more sustainable cropping systems such as conservation agriculture production systems (CAPSs) may help in maintaining soil quality as we...

We used the burrowing crayfish Procambarus alleni as a model organism to compare spatial and temporal patterns of density, standing crop biomass, and sizestructured productivity in the seasonal wetlands of the Florida Everglades where environmental stress has been exacerbated by hydropattern disturbance. Crayfish density was not linked to fluctuations in water temperature or dissolved oxygen an...

Metalworking fluids (MWFs) increase productivity and the quality of manufacturing operations by cooling and lubricating during metal forming and cutting processes. Despite their widespread use, they pose significant health and environmental hazards throughout their life cycle. An obvious environmental improvement to MWF technology would be to improve the lifetime of the fluid while utilizing mo...

Effects of climatic changes, progressing urbanization and improved environmental controls on the simulated urban stormwater quality in a Northern Sweden community were studied. Future scenarios accounting for those changes were developed and their effects simulated with the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). It was observed that the simulated stormwater quality was highly sensitive to the sce...