The Sinos River basin is located Northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (29º 20' to 30º 10' S and 50º 15' to 51º20'W), Southern Brazil, covering two geomorphologic provinces: the Southern plateau and central depression. It is part of the Guaíba basin and has an area of approximately 800 km², encompassing 32 municipalities. The objective of this study was to monitor water quality in the Sin...

Jacques Ellul argued that modernity’s nearly exclusive reliance on science and technology to design society would threaten hunan freedom. Of particular concern for Ellul was the prospect of the technical milieu overwhelming culture. The commodification of the Volta River in order to modernize Ghana illustrates the Ellulian dilemma of the autonomy of technique. Displacing a commons way of life, ...

This paper describes the research project on the development of an ontology-based semantic search system for drought management of the Chi River Basin (CRB), Thailand. The research methods included Ontology Development 101 by adopting Noy & McGuinness (2001) and Ontology-based Application Management framework by adopting Buranarach et al. (2012). Seventeen experts including ten experts in the a...

Trinidad and Tobago is plagued with a perennial flooding problem. The higher levels of rainfall in the wet season often lead to extensive flooding in the low-lying areas of the country. This has lead to significant damage to livestock, agricultural produce, homes and businesses particularly in the Caparo River Basin. Clearly, there is a need for developing flood mitigation and management strate...

The Sinos River basin is located Northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (29° 20’ to 30° 10’ S and 50° 15’ to 51° 20’ W), Southern Brazil, covering two geomorphologic provinces: the Southern plateau and central depression. It is part of the Guaíba basin and has an area of approximately 800 km, encompassing 32 municipalities. The objective of this study was to monitor water quality in the Si...

In recent years, global climate change has altered precipitation patterns, causing uneven spatial and temporal distribution of precipitation that gradually induces precipitation polarization phenomena. Taiwan is located in the subtropical climate zone, with distinct wet and dry seasons, which makes the polarization phenomenon more obvious; this has also led to a large difference between river f...

This paper describes the approach being used to engage stakeholders for the development of the River Manager river systems modelling tool, which is designed to simulate river system hydrology and water management rules for water management planning. River Manager software is being developed to replace three river system models (MSM-Bigmod, REALM, IQQM) that are currently applied in different pa...

Mapping soil texture in a river basin is critically important for eco-hydrological studies and water resource management at the watershed scale. However, due to the scarcity of in situ observation of soil texture, it is very difficult to map the soil texture in high resolution using traditional methods. Here, we used an integrated method based on fuzzy logic theory and data fusion to map the so...

This paper describes how geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies were used to plan the collection of entomological baseline data for a tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) elimination project in the Mouhoun river basin in Burkina Faso. Historical data were collated as the background for data analysis. These data were used to define t...

The Tennessee River Basin is considered one of the most important regions for freshwater biodiversity anywhere on the globe. The Tennessee River Basin currently includes populations of at least half of the described contemporary diversity of extant North American freshwater fishes, crayfish, mussel, and gastropod species. However, comparatively little is known about the biodiversity of this bas...