Can Metal–Organic Framework Composites Contain the Water Contamination Crisis?

Arsenic Contamination in Water: A Conceptual Framework of Policy Options

Arsenic contamination in water supplies continues to increase in many countries, especially in developing nations, thereby creating both environmental and health hazard. Its sources and effects are multiple and diffused in nature and it requires detailed assessment and policy. This paper discusses the global extent of the problem, its sources and effects and explores different policy options. S...

Can we contain Internet worms?

Worm containment must be automatic because worms can spread too fast for humans to respond. Recent work has proposed a network centric approach to automate worm containment: network traffic is analyzed to derive a packet classifier that blocks (or rate-limits) worm propagation. This approach has fundamental limitations because the analysis has no information about the application vulnerabilitie...

The crisis in water supply: how different it can look through the lens of the human right to water?

The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation was explicitly recognized through resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly 1 in July 2010 and Human Rights Council 2 in September 2010, with strong support from the Brazilian government. The General Assembly’s resolution states explicitly that this right “is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights”, which can be un...

Water Contamination Detection

For the detection of contaminations in urban water supply networks we introduce a continuous optimal control model governed by partial differential equations. We derive a linear mixedinteger model by discretization of the dynamics of the partial differential equations and by approximations to the cost functional. Finally, we present numerical results for artificial and real-world networks.

Bacteriophage and Water Contamination