Increasingly unaffordable household water in the United States poses a threat to population health. Unaffordability of water increases nonpayment-related water shutoffs, which may result in higher rates of water-borne or infectious illnesses. Households confronted with water bill hardship may also face...
domestic uses, and even links this right to the International Bill of Human Rights (1948). This reference to the right to water has been kept in recent documents such as the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002), the Charter of Water of the Senegal ...
Many regions in Iran are currently experience water crisis, largely driven by frequent droughts and expanding agricultural land combined with over abstraction of groundwater. Therefore, it is extremely important to identify potential groundwater recharge (GWR) zones to help in prevent water scarcity. T...
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According to Massey ecologistMike Joy, we are already living through the most rapid rates of ecosystem change since colonisation. Here are some stats, before the government’s latest RMA streamlining amendment and its asset-sale-funded irrigation programme. ...
To assess linkages across the water-energy-food nexus (WEF), we simulate four alternative scenarios that are described in Table 1, all using identical socioeconomic and population growth rates under Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) 2, a middle-of-the-road scenario, which follows historical tren...
On the other hand, the monetary value of water is also mentioned: “I would say the value of water is how much the average person would pay for water in an areai.e., the average water bill/ how many people purify their own water”. Comments such as “Just raise water rates” were...
Furthermore, Sabadell's drinking water consumption of 96 L per person per day is one of the lowest rates in Europe of domestic water consumption. The average age of the pipes of the drinking water distribution network is 38 years, so some areas require refurbishment. Non-revenue water ...
Compared to the historical period, the average rates of changes of the PWS under the RCP 4.5 scenario were increases of 3.3% (2025s), 2.0% (2055s) and 4.7% (2085s). However, the average rates of changes of the IWR under the RCP 4.5 scenario were increases of 5.2% (2025s) and ...
For example, NB-IoT uses the LTE back-end system to broadcast valid messages to all end devices (EDs) in a cell. The data rates for uplink and downlink communications are 200 kbps and 20 kbps, respectively [58]. Each message has a maximum payload of 1600 bytes. Data communication uses...