Water as a Resource

Fog as a fresh-water resource: overview and perspectives.

The collection of fog water is a simple and sustainable technology to obtain fresh water for afforestation, gardening, and as a drinking water source for human and animal consumption. In regions where fresh water is sparse and fog frequently occurs, it is feasible to set up a passive mesh system for fog water collection. The mesh is directly exposed to the atmosphere, and the foggy air is pushe...

Indiana Wetnet: a Virtual Water Resource

The WETnet concept exists at the intersection of three familiar areas of interest as depicted in FIGURE 1. The concept is analogous to replacing the hardware and software domain with, say, transportation and lodging, and the intersection would then be a conference. That is to say that when you get a group of people who share a common interest to meet, discuss, and share their ideas then we gene...

A new approach for solving fuzzy multi-objective quadratic programming of water resource allocation problem

Water from (waste)water--the dependable water resource.

Water reclamation and reuse provides a unique and viable opportunity to augment traditional water supplies. As a multi-disciplined and important element of water resources development and management, water reuse can help to close the loop between water supply and wastewater disposal. Effective water reuse requires integration of water and reclaimed water supply functions. The successful develop...

Min-entropy as a resource

Article history: Received 16 June 2012 Available online 7 March 2013