... intheAssabetRiverBasinineasternMassachusetts alter the flow andwater quality inthebasin Wastewater dischargesand streamflow depletion from ground -water withdrawals adversely affect water ... Figure 12 WateruseandreturnflowsintheAssabetRiverBasinineasternMassachusettsWaterwithdrawalsanddischargesare average annual rates for 1997–2001; consumptive -use, septic-system return ... town in which all water used inthebasinin 1997– 2001 originated inthe adjacent Blackstone RiverBasinInthe eight towns inthebasin without public -water systems (table 7), private water...
... construction and protection of infrastructure in low-lying areas; and (5) Increased pollution of the aquatic environment inthe coastal zone and salinity intrusion of the Huong River lead to water scarcity ... rise, water reduction and increasing demand of water users is expected to be more serious inthe future Salinity profile was simulated by the couple of HD and AD modules of MIKE 11 model taking into ... Hue Province reflects the willingness and commitment of the provincial authorities and people to carefully balance interests with respect to the protection andtheuse of coastal resources and environment...
... Environmental Setting and Data‑Collection Sites The environmental setting of the McKenzie Riverbasinand a discussion of sampling sites inthebasin have been previously reported in McCarthy and others ... drinking water for the City of Eugene, Oregon, and passive-sampler data are part of an ongoing monitoring effort designed to help understand and protect the drinking water source Data from the ... Samplers Deployed inthe Mckenzie River Basin, Oregon, During 2010 .5 Figures Figure 1 Map showing study area location and data-collection sites, McKenzie River basin, Oregon………………………………………………………………………...
... rural households inthe Lower Mekong Basinare involved in fisheries, both for their own consumption and for sale Women and children are very active inthe fishery, in both catching and processing/marketing ... to the success of fisheries because they are eaten by fish (Figure 4); insects pollinate agricultural crops and other plants; and forests help maintain soil cover andwater balance In rivers, the ... resource inthe Mekong is not the fishery, nor rice, but thewater itself Sustainable development of the Mekong River Basin, which encompasses sustaining the aquatic habitats andthe biodiversity they...
... support for increased minimum flowsinthe Klamath River main stem Although the proposed higher flowsare intended to increase the amount of habitat inthe main stem, the increase in habitat space ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute of Medicine ... ramping rates for flows below the mainstem dams and increased flowsinthe Klamath River main stem Coordination and reduced ramping rates are well justified However, the committee did not find...
... inthe 3S basins, threatening sec ons of the rivers which are s ll largely intact If built, these dams will alter the basins’ natural resources through changes inwater ows, water quality, land ... its toll on the health of the Sesan and Srepok basins inthe Central Highlands of Vietnam and downstream in northeastern Cambodia Despite the harm these projects have had on the rivers’ biodiversity, ... projects inthe 3S basins, threatening large lengths of theriver which are s ll largely intact If built, these dams will alter thebasin s natural resources through changes inthe region’s water...
... determinant of agricultural land -use change, its form andthe intensity of change inthe Mekong RiverBasinin a particular locale are influenced by other factors, including land-tenure policies, international ... shows the increase inthe crop-area demand inthe whole Mekong RiverBasin projected by this study as compared against the 2000 observed paddy area data inthe Mekong parts of Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, ... 2003 Mekong RiverBasinand Yangtze RiverBasin In: WaterUse for Agriculture in Priority River Basins, Section World Wide Fund for Nature Publication, Living Water Programme, Netherlands, 32 pp...
... twelve river landscapes 165 XV Figure 6.8 Location of the Gongzui Dam and its fragmented river landscapes in Min Riverbasin Before construction of the dam, the Min River maintained connectivity ... reach of the Jialing River; images were provided by the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation of China The arrow inthe left panel indicates the residential area, which ... fragmentation index (WRLFI) indicated that the Wu, Min and Jialing tributaries only maintain connectivity among one to three river landscapes Situation inthe middle and lower basin is the highest...
... which then flows to the Ohio Riverand on to the Mississippi The researchers have monitored thewater quality of the incoming and outgoing waterflows over time and have found that the wetland’s ... 16 Missing Protection: Polluting the Mississippi RiverBasin s Small Streams and Wetlands Chapter Headwaters and Wetlands: Their Function and Prevalence inthe Mississippi RiverBasin S mall ... Mississippi RiverBasin by promptly announcing that there is strong proof that wetlands throughout thebasin have a “significant nexus” to theriverandthe gulf andare therefore covered by the law The...
... larvae and juveniles of some common fish species from the Mekong RiverBasin China Myanmar Figure x Map of the Lower Mekong RiverBasin Introduction The Mekong River originates in China inthe ... maturity late in life and adult specimens are increasingly rare It is migratory: juveniles enter inundated areas during the rainy season It spawns inthe rainy season between June and August in swamps ... Basin It migrates locally and moves into smaller tributaries and flooded areas including inundated forest during the flood season, and returns to main river channels when thewater starts to recede...
... formation of margin deltas inthe northern part of the Red Riverbasin A study result on the Red Riverbasin has revealed transgression/regression cycles during the Miocene There are cycles in Early ... northern part of the Red RiverbasinInthe northern part of the Red River basin, margin deltas have developed eastward from the borehole 103-TH-1X They are composed of river mouth bars and delta front ... level during the late time of the lowstand stage, beginning time of the transgression stage (Fig 2) Margin delta deposits were formed in relatively deep waterandare wide spread inthe shelf area,...
... Species of the Mekong RiverBasin 14 Distribution and Ecology of Some Important Riverine Fish Species of the Mekong RiverBasin Introduction The fisheries of the Mekong River System are among the largest ... fish are leaving the floodplains and finding their ways to the dry season refuges inthe main river channels The big surplus of fish caught during this part of the year is traditionally either ... Phraya and Mae Klong Basins, Thailand Distribution: occurs basin- wide, from the Mekong delta inthe South to the border between Lao PDR, Thailand and Myanmar inthe North Found in flowing waters...
... Dynamics inthe Ca RiverBasinin Vietnam others will not be taken into account as they are not involved inthe logistic regression analysis Table illustrates the area and percentage of the five ... these communes is shown in Figure Driving Forces of Forest Cover Dynamics inthe Ca RiverBasinin Vietnam Nghe An Upper Ca RiverBasin Ky Son and Tuong Duong Figure Study Area, located inthe ... classes into information classes Two sets of ETM images were used to map the land cover of the period 1998 - 2003 The images captured the study site inthe dry season, once in May 1998 andthe other...
... characteristics of the Ba riverbasinThe Ba riverbasin is one of the nine largest river basins in Vietnam with a total area of about 13,4170 km2 [33], thebasin occupies the western andtheeastern sides ... regimes andwateruseinthe basins These works will be the main targets of this study Reservoir systems inthe Ba river basins are located inthe zone with complicated rainfall distribution influenced ... Fig 2.1 The Ba riverbasin watershed in downstream During winter season, inthe area from upstream to An Khe and from Son Hoa and Song Hinh to theriver mouth, because of northeast monsoon and late...
... they take seasonal changes in daylength into marily consideration Thus, the reduction in net was photosynthesis was always greater on long and sunny summer days with high daily integrals of water ... photosynthesis was reduced to zero when the predawn water potential reached the turgor loss point, reflecting complete stomatal closure Consequently, the reduction of net photosynthesis in trees ... limited and very limited water supply was more pronounced in summer than in autumn species differed in essentials feareflecting adaptations to their natural habitat: 1) under conditions of good water...
... from surface waters are also monitored In this chapter, drinking water sources andthe situation of drinking water supply inthe Delta is presented Water using practice for drinking and selected ... concentrations in surface waterand drinking waterare mentioned again With comparison to the guideline values of standards, the quality of surface waterand General Introduction Pham Van Toan drinking water ... developing countries, 45% in Europe, 24% inthe USA andthe remaining in other countries (Abhilash and Singh, 2009) In developing countries, the share of agrochemical use was highest for insecticides...
... assigned the class of the majority of the items which reached it during training The trees were grown using recursive partitioning; the splitting criterion was reduction in deviance Using the Gini index ... classes were not examined, because defining, building, fine-tuning, and maintaining such word lists can be an arduous task (cf e.g (Klavans and Kan, 1998)), which should therefore only be undertaken ... stores all training set vectors in an instance base New feature vectors are assigned the class of the most similar instancc We usethe Fuclidean distance metric for determining nearest ncighbours...
... recommendations Other guidelines These guidelines focus on HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants Other guidelines outline theuse of ARV agents in non-pregnant HIV-infected adults and adolescents, ... regimens, including those with zidovudine alone; zidovudine plus lamivudine; single-dose nevirapine; and single-dose nevirapine combined with either short-course zidovudine or zidovudine/lamivudine.3-12 ... Dosing for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: o Table revised to reflect neonatal dosing only of zidovudine (in term and preterm infants) and nevirapine inthe regimen used in the...
... measures of the variability of the nominal and real yields andthe BEIR The drop inthe mean and variability of the BEIR inthe latter half of the sample coincides with a drop inthe mean and variability ... ytm ,t Inthe case of a nominal bond, we obtain a nominal ytm Inthe case of the RRB, we usethe market price andthe real coupon rate to obtain a real ytm Inthe absence of distortions, the spread ... horizon The BEIR should be influenced by inflation expectations over many different horizons, and we are also interested in determining whether the BEIR contains useful information about inflation...