Concentrations in surface waters (including particulate phase) of the River Chenab ranged from 27-1100 ng L(-1) and 25-1200 ng L(-1) for OCPs and 7.7-110 ng L(-1) and 13-99 ng L(-1) for PCBs during summer and winter, respectively from 2007-2009. DDTs exhibited the highest concentration, followed by HCHs > chlordane > ∑(24)PCBs > ∑other OCPs. Different indicative ratios for organochlorines sugge...

Quantifying the contribution of glacier runoff to water resources is particularly important in regions such as High Mountain Asia, where glaciers provide a large percentage of seasonal river discharge and support large populations downstream. In remote areas, direct field measurements of glacier melt rates are difficult to acquire and rarely observed, so hydro-glaciological modeling and remote ...

In this paper we review two recent paradigmatic shifts and consider how a two-way flow in innovation has been critical to the emergence of new thinking and new practices. The first area relates to our understanding of the nature of public health systems and the shift from a medical paradigm to a more holistic paradigm which emphasises the social, economic and environmental origins of ill-health...

the offered approach is based on the establishment of the functional dependence between river water discharge (q) and suspended ms ,in a number of observations, which noticeably differs from the mean value (r) of subsequent allocated period(s). the earliest period anthropogenic component during the subsequent period(s) is the difference between an actual suspended sediment yield and its hypothe...

This 3x3 factorial study assessed pyrethroids, carbamates and neonicotenoids groups of pesticides in replicated samples of three fish species from low (S1, reference), medium (S2) and heavy (S3) polluted sites receiving agricultural run-offs around the Indus River. Water and sediment samples from the same sites were also analysed for these pesticides by using high performance liquid chromatogra...

Full Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2007–... Associate Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2001–05/2007 Assistant Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 12/2000–06/2001 Researcher Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 08/1999–11/2000 Assistant Professor Operations and Decision Systems, Un...

#" !$" Snowmelt dominated streamflow of the Western Himalayan rivers is an important water !%" resource during the dry pre-monsoon months to meet the irrigation and hydropower needs !&" in northern India. This study is one of the first to look at the seasonal prediction of melt!'" dominated total inflow into the Bhakra Dam in northern India, based on statistical !(" relationships with meteorolo...

This paper reports the measurement of high energy neutron component (E > 50 MeV) carried out at the Indus-1 (450 MeV) and Indus-2 (2.5 GeV) electron accelerators (RRCAT, Indore, India). The study is based on the registration of neutron induced fission fragments from bismuth radiators in the adjoint solid polymeric track detectors. These bismuth fission detector (BFD) stacks are exposed at the i...