The prevalence of water quality incidents and disease outbreaks suggests an imperative to analyse and understand the roles of operators and organisations in the water supply system. One means considered in this paper is through human reliability analysis (HRA). We classify the human errors contributing to 62 drinking water accidents occurring in affluent countries from 1974 to 2001; define the ...

Control of energy flows within a building is critical to achieving optimal performance of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. To design optimal HVAC control strategies, a dynamic model of the HVAC system – particularly the building zones that it services – is essential. As analysis of building energy consumption is facilitated by the accurate prediction of indoor environme...

The use of population-level indices to estimate individual exposures is an important limitation of previous epidemiologic studies of disinfection by-products (DBPs). We examined exposure misclassification resulting from the use of system average DBP concentrations to estimate individual-level exposures. Data were simulated (n=1000 iterations) for 100 subjects across 10 water systems based on th...

Ground water is one of the main source of drinking water in Nanded city. City has witnessed a tremendous increase in population. This has lead to establishment of new colonies. A large section of residents live in the newly established crowded colonies under unhygienic conditions. The public bore wells, located in these areas are the main source of drinking water The present study was carried o...

In 1974, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Safe Drinking Water Act, the first piece of legislation of its kind to provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for overseeing the nation's drinking water supply. The law has proven instrumental in setting standards for ensuring that the US population can access drinking water that is safe. However, the law delegates much of its monitoring ...

Water intake was described and quantified in samples of urban Guatemalan schoolchildren stratified by gender and socio-economic status. The frequency of consumption and quantity of plain water drinking was estimated from one-day pictorial registries of all beverages, foods and snacks consumed over a 24-h period collected from 449 3rd and 4th graders from two social classes: 230 from higher SES ...

DEDICATION To my loving family iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Professor Nenad Medvidovic, for his kind support and guidance during my Ph.D. course. Whenever I was encountered by some difficult problems in my research, he always encouraged me and kindly helped me solve those problems. He was also the only person who gave me a research opportunity, when I had...

Resident consumption is the important for the rapid and sustainable economic growth in China, and the number of rural residents is almost half of the total number, and forecasting the rural residents per capita living consumption accurately and reliably provide important basis for the government to establish new development strategies. Therefore, prediction of rural per capita living consumptio...