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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author)Fresh water is an essential resource for life. Yet, overexploitation of water resources, rainfall shortages, and a decrease in water quality by pollution increase water scarcity worldwide. Since agricultural production consumes about 70% of the available fresh water resources, it is particularly vulnerable for water scarcity. Therefore, this...doctoral thesis 2023
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van Egmond, Jessie Lynn (author)For this thesis a hydrochemical groundwater survey was carried out on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in 2020 as part of the NWO SEALINK project. In order to be well-adapted against anthropogenic and natural pressures, Curaçao needs representative data, yet thorough hydrochemical datasets were only sparsely collected in the wet seasons of 1977...master thesis 2023
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Kim, J. (author), Jonoski, Andreja (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Goethals, Peter L. M. (author)The World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provide guidelines on the maximum levels of nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N) contained in drinking water since excess nitrate ingestion may harm human health. Thus, monitoring and controlling the NO3-N concentration is of paramount importance, especially in sources of...journal article 2023
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Wang, Yibo (author), Liu, Pan (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Li, Liping (author), Wu, Chen (author), Han, Dongyang (author), Zhang, Xiaojing (author), Yang, Zhikai (author), Yang, Sheng (author)Aquatic community dynamics are closely dominated by flow regime and water quality conditions, which are increasingly threatened by dam regulation, water diversion, and nutrition pollution. However, further understanding of the ecological impacts of flow regime and water quality conditions on aquatic multi-population dynamics has rarely been...journal article 2023
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Masese, Frank O. (author), Wanderi, Elizabeth W. (author), Nyakeya, Kobingi (author), Achieng, Alfred O. (author), Fouchy, Kelly (author), McClain, M.E. (author)Many streams and rivers outside conservation areas across the Afrotropics face multiple stressors from land use change, urbanization, and excessive water withdrawals. Thus, there is a need to develop cost-effective tools for assessing and monitoring ecological changes to inform management decisions. Studies utilizing macroinvertebrate...journal article 2023
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Huang, Tzu-Yao (author)Tip vortex cavitation around the marine propeller is the primary source of the underwater noises emitted by ships. Investigating the tip vortex inception is important to understand the aforementioned side effect. The water quality, highly related to the bubbles population, surrounding the tip vortex is crucial to the tip vortex cavitation...master thesis 2022
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Willard, Tijmen (author)The water quality of the Brantas river in Indonesia is of concern to several agencies on East Java. These agencies all measure its water quality in their own way in terms of locations, rhythms and parameters. The goal of this thesis is to find out if these agencies measure the same and if not, how these measurements differ. From these...master thesis 2022
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Li, Jun (author), Ren, Anran (author), van der Mark, Ed (author), Liu, G. (author)Drinking water quality deteriorates from treatment plant to customer taps, especially in the plumbing system. There is no direct evidence about what the differences are contributed by plumbing system. This study compared the water quality in the water main and at customer tap by preparing a sampling tap on the water main. The biomass was...journal article 2022
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Pramana, K.E.R. (author), Ertsen, M.W. (author)In the first decade of the 21st century, a water harvesting approach based on contour trenches—ditches to catch runoff—from Kenya was proposed as groundwater recharge technology in a semi-arid area in Ninh Phuoc district, Vietnam. In order to modify this solutions to tackle water scarcity, hydrological conditions at the site needed to be known....journal article 2022
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Aydin, B.E. (author), Oude Essink, Gualbert H.P. (author), Delsman, Joost R. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Abraham, E. (author)A significant increase in surface water salinization in low-lying deltas is expected globally due to saline groundwater exfiltration driven by rising sea levels and decreasing freshwater availability. Sustaining fresh water-dependent agriculture in such areas will entail an increased demand for fresh water flushing. Unfortunately, the...journal article 2022
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Kruisdijk, E. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)Irrigation with surface water carrying plant pathogens poses a risk for agriculture. Managed aquifer recharge enhances fresh water availability while simultaneously it may reduce the risk of plant diseases by removal of pathogens during aquifer passage. We compared the transport of three plant pathogenic bacteria with Escherichia coli WR1 as...journal article 2022
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Kloosterman, Ritsche Anne (author), Herder, P.M. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Long term uncertainties in combination with long lifetime of assets of drinking water infrastructures (DWIs) and changing expectations of stakeholders make strategic decisions in drinking water infrastructures (DWIs) complex. A framework with building blocks and design spaces was developed to support these decisions. Building blocks, divided in...journal article 2022
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Zheng, Zixuan (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Bi, Weiwei (author), Du, Jiawen (author), Duan, Huan-Feng (author), Savić, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)An early contamination warning system with deployed water quality sensors is often used to enhance the safety of a water distribution system (WDS). While algorithms have been developed to select an optimal water quality sensor placement strategy (WQSPS) for WDSs, many of them do not account for the influences caused by future uncertainties,...journal article 2022
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Ji, Yiran (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Du, Jiawen (author), Huang, Yuan (author), Bi, Weiwei (author), Duan, Huan Feng (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Most of the contamination source localization methods for water distribution systems (WDSs) assume the availability of accurate water quality models and multi-parameter online sensors, which are often out of reach of many water utilities. To address this, a novel manual grab-sampling method (MGSM) is developed to effectively and efficiently...journal article 2022
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van der Meulen, E. S. (author), van Oel, P. R. (author), Rijnaarts, H. H.M. (author), Sutton, N. B. (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)Urban surface waters are used in many different ways. With increasing demand for human use functions, improved insight is required into the functional quality of these waters. A method to assess this functional quality in a systematic way and for a wide variety of use functions is not available. We propose to use suitability indices (SIs) for...journal article 2022
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Moerman, Andreas (author), van Bel, Nikki (author), Oesterholt, Frank (author), de Laat, Vincent (author), Blokker, E.J.M. (author)Climate change demands for sustainable options for heating and cooling of buildings. Low-temperature thermal energy can be abstracted from the drinking water distribution system (DWDS); this is called thermal energy from drinking water (TED). The possible use of TED as a secondary function of the DWDS raises the question whether this...book chapter 2022
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Wang, Siyuan (author)Drinking water temperature is an essential parameter for water quality related to the physical, chemical and biological processes in water. However, in many countries, the drinking water temperature has not been taken seriously and was excluded from water quality standards. For example, in the Netherlands, the temperature of drinking water...master thesis 2021
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Spaans, Diederik (author)Myanmar lacks a water quality monitoring system to monitor changes in water quality in the Ayeyarwady Basin. This study aims to find to what extent changes in water quality can be measured in the Ayeyarwady basin and to identify requirements for a water quality monitoring system. In this study, the current water quality monitoring systems of the...master thesis 2021
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Streams, sewage, and shallow groundwater: stream-aquifer interactions in the Kathmandu Valley, NepalPrajapati, Rajaram (author), Overkamp, Nick N. (author), Moesker, Niek (author), Happee, K. (author), van Bentem, R. (author), Danegulu, Anusha (author), Manandhar, Bikesh (author), Thapa, Amber Bahadur (author), Davids, J.C. (author)The Kathmandu Valley in Nepal is facing a water quantity and quality crisis due to rapid urbanization and haphazard water and wastewater planning and management. Annually, groundwater extractions in the Kathmandu Valley exceed capture, resulting in groundwater table declines. Streams are often important sources of recharge to (or destination...journal article 2021
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Ahmad, J.I. (author), Dignum, Marco (author), Liu, G. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) have been thoroughly studied, but the concept of thermal energy recovery from DWDSs is very new and has been conceptualized in the past few years. Cold recovery results in a temperature increase of the drinking water. Its effects on drinking water quality and biofilm development are unclear. Hence, we...journal article 2021