The purpose of this study is investigating the chemical analysis of drinking water in Kashan district. This district contained Kashan, Aran and Bidgol and Nooshabad cities and it had an estimated population more than of 400,000 in 2007. 42 Samples were collected during October 2006 to May 2007.The temperature of the water Samples is in the range 25-30°C. The water samples were analyzed for pH ,...

*Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 87155.111, Kashan, Iran. **Department of Statistics, Kashan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Kashan, Iran. Received for publication: September 12, 2005. Reprint request: Ahmad Khorshidi, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box: 8715...

Fifty-nine stream-water samples and 14 municipal wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) discharge samples in Johnson County, northeastern Kansas, were analyzed for 55 compounds collectively described as organic wastewater compounds (OWCs). Stream-water samples were collected upstream, in, and downstream from WWTF discharges in urban and rural areas during base-flow conditions. The effect of secon...

The aim of this work was to design a quick and reliable method for the evaluation and classification of wastewater streams into treatable and non-treatable effluents for reuse/recycling. Different chemometric methods were used for this purpose handling the enormous amount of data, and additionally to find any hidden information, which would increase our knowledge and improve the classification....

The microbial quality of water plays a key role in community health. The present study aimed to determine the microbial quality of the drinking water distribution networks in the urban and rural areas of Dasht-e Azadegan County, Iran and assess the influential factors in the quality of drinking water.In this descriptive-analytical study, 907 drinking water samples were collected from the urban ...

In this paper, the performance of [different] units of Water and Sewage Company in Isfahan Province was evaluated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The purpose of this study was to provide a clear picture of the relative performance of Decision-Making Units (DMUs) in 2018. The advantage of using the DEA model over parametric models is to measure the performance of units using specific weig...

1Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran 2Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Ka...

with regard to the importance of technological developments, senior enterprise managers should be aware of their organization's technological capabilities, changes and developments in the world, and also have information from their rivals' efforts in achieving new technologies, to be in line of their organization's technology developments. therefore a technological needs assessment model, is de...

QMA, Inc. is located at 1390 Lunt Avenue in Elk Grove Village, IL. The company makes printed wiring boards (PWBs) and employs about 40 people. QMA wanted to reduce the cost of disposing of its wastewater which was being hauled off site. The company also wanted to improve the safety of its workers by eliminating 3,000 gallons of highly acidic wastewater which had to be stored in the plant awaiti...