This paper reports on the levels of organochlorine pesticide residues in edible biota from the coastal area of Dar es Salaam city, Tanzania. Samples were collected from the Msimbazi and Kizinga rivers and from the coastal marine environment receiving waters from these rivers. The samples were analysed for various organochlorine pesticide residues using GC-ECD and the results confirmed with GC-M...

Scarcity of water resource and increasing competition for its use promoted recently the development of advanced control algorithms and SCADA technologies for the automatic management of open-surface hydraulic systems. In order to control hydraulic devices on irrigation canals or rivers, detailed information on the hydraulic state of the system must be available. This is particularly true when t...

The boundary zone between two different hydrological regimes is often a biologically enriched environment with distinct planktonic communities. In the center of the Amazon River basin, muddy white water of the Amazon River meets with black water of the Negro River, creating a conspicuous visible boundary spanning over 10 km along the Amazon River. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the conflue...

Arid zones have been affected during the quaternary by a large hydrological and climate variability. This change of processes has shaped the landscape leaving the signature of former paleodrainage and sedimentological features. Using the radar SAR images matched with the detailed topography, obtained from the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) data and ERS interferometry, it is possible to...

Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and carbon (DOC) often dominate the dissolved nitrogen and organic carbon fluxes from rivers, yet they are not considered to affect coastal water quality because of their assumed refractory nature. The objective of this study was to quantify DON and DOC bioavailability to bacteria in 9 rivers on the east coast of the United States during a 6 d dark bioassay expe...

The fresh water in rivers beneath the Earth’s surface is as significant to humans as that on the surface. However, the water quality is difficult to monitor due to its unapproachable nature. In this work, we consider building networks to monitor water quality in subterranean rivers. The network node is designed to have limited functions of floating and staying in these rivers when necessary. We...

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America R ecosystems are some of the most diverse on Earth and provide important services (Palmer and Richardson 2009; Strayer and Dudgeon 2010). Understanding how they function is critical to sustainable management but challenging given their complex spatial and temporal structure and multi-scale processes. Riverine systems comprise hydrol...

BACKGROUND While freshwater sustainability is generally defined as the provisioning of water for both people and the environment, in practice it is largely focused only on supplying water to furnish human population growth. Symptomatic of this is the state of Arizona, where rapid growth outside of the metropolitan Phoenix-Tucson corridor relies on the same groundwater that supplies year-round f...

In this study, trace metal analysis of the surface waters from river Dzindi, Madanzhe and Mvudi in Thohoyandou, South Africa, were conducted with a view to obtain a baseline data of their levels. The physico-chemical forms of the metals as a means of assessing their availability and non-availability for toxicity to aquatic organisms was also investigated. Surface water samples were collected ra...

river water is not only an indispensable source for irrigation but also plays a vital role for drinking water supply for most of the urban municipalities. water from rivers is pumped at specific sites and after treatment at municipal water treatment plants supplied as domestic potable water supply. the present study was undertaken to assess the suitability of gomti river water at gaughat being ...