The flowslide is reproduced by the quasi-real scale model-slope tests on river sand by artificial rainfall, in which subsurface water movement and downslope deformation are carefully monitored. The rainfall at the intensity of 100 mm/hour on the specimen formed at loose state (9.0-metre long, 1.0-metre wide, 0.5metre deep) have brought about the failure at 2,931 sec after the onset of sprinklin...

CDIO engineering education mode is the successful model of the reformation of engineering education. According to the training objectives and curriculum system of water supply & drainage, evaluation index system is proposed based on CDIO standard. The weight of each evaluation factor is calculated by analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The evaluation model is established based on multi-level fuzz...

In this paper we applied the parallel evolutionary strategy HGSNash to solving the decision making problem for water resource systems with external disagreement of interests. This problem is usually modelled as a non-cooperative strategic game. We define two different sets of water purifying cost functions for the water users and perform a simple experimental analysis. The efficiencies of HGSNa...

The purpose of this paper is to examine accuracy, security, and architecture impacts and challenges of mobile and web technologies through the case study of collecting geolocation field data in Washington (WA) State water resources. Effective management of water as a public resource relies on the capture, storage, and retrieval of accurate geographic position data. This is also true of a broad ...

The European Neolithization ~6000-4000 BC represents a pivotal change in human history when farming spread and the mobile style of life of the hunter-foragers was superseded by the agrarian culture. Permanent settlement structures and agricultural production systems required fundamental innovations in technology, subsistence, and resource utilization. Motivation, course, and timing of this tran...

Planning, designing, and managing water resource systems today inevitably involve impact prediction. Impact prediction can be aided by the use of models. While acknowledging the increasingly important role of modeling in water resource planning and management, we also acknowledge the inherent limitation of models as representations of any real system. Model structure, input data, objectives, an...

More than 1.5 million people live in the Kathmandu valley. The valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. At the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. To address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of Nepal has proposed a project of inter-basin transfer of water from Melamchi River located 40 km north-east of the Kathmandu valley. The project will cover two district...

Sound strategies for community water supply and sanitation programmes in developing countries should be based on a clear understanding of the existing problems, the beneficial impacts achievable, and the factors which determine sustainability. The impacts of many water and sanitation programmes are limited, and many systems break down and are abandoned prematurely. Only limited impacts are achi...

We identified 10 patients in Thailand with culture-confirmed melioidosis who had Burkholderia pseudomallei isolated from their drinking water. The multilocus sequence type of B. pseudomallei from clinical specimens and water samples were identical for 2 patients. This finding suggests that drinking water is a preventable source of B. pseudomallei infection.