STORM WATER DRAINAGE MODEL COUPLED WITH FLOOD DEPTH MAPPING: A NEW APPROACH TOWARDS SOLUTION OF URBAN DRAINAGE PROBLEMS Mir Mostafa Kamal* and M Fazle Rabbi** * River Hydraulics Division‚ Surface Water Modelling Centre‚ Dhaka-1206‚ Bangladesh ** Water Resources Division‚ Surface Water Modelling Centre‚ Dhaka-1206‚ Bangladesh ABSTRACT Storm water drainage and its management in many large cities in the world are becoming increasingly problematic. Unplanned or poorly planned urban development along
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Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful. Uses of water include agricultural‚ industrial‚ household‚ recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. 97% of the water on the Earth is salt water. However‚ only three percent is fresh water; slightly over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.[1] The remaining unfrozen freshwater is found mainly as groundwater‚ with only a small fraction present
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Science 12:008/159:008 Spring 2002 Water Pollution July 22‚ 2005 Water Pollution Pollutant Any substance that does not belong in the natural system and disrupts the natural balance Water Pollution Degradation of water quality in a manner that disrupts/prevents its intended or original use. Surface Water Groundwater MCL and secondary MCL MCL=Maximum Contaminant Level The highest concentration of a pollutant allowed in drinking water by law Concentration above which adverse
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Water Conservation Water conservation is important because we depend on it. So many of our daily activities‚ like bathing or flushing the toilet‚ require fresh water. Our body even needs water to function correctly. Seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface is made up of water. Ninety-eight percent of it all is salt water‚ leaving only two percent as fresh water. More than half of the fresh water is permanently frozen in glaciers or is in the form of snow. That leaves just a tiny
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Water Scarcity & the Importance of Water Introduction: This report has been written to inform you of the world water crisis which is getting worse every second. It has also been written to inform you about the water scarcity and importance. Water Scarcity and importance: Clean‚ safe drinking water is not easy to find any longer. Today‚ nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don’t have access to it. Yet‚ we take it for granted‚ we waste it‚ and we even pay too much to drink it from little
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Water use and misuse OUR pot of water woes is brimming over. That does not seem surprising‚ according to Ramaswamy R. Iyer‚ since even though India is one of the few countries in the world which is blessed with an adequate quantity of water‚ there is a tremendous amount of mismanagement of water resources. While the country has over 4‚000 billion cubic meters (bcm) of annual rainfall and almost 2000 bcm of river flow‚ the reality remains that we have had constant lamentations about the shortage
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Most legislation is the same opinion that laws should be set in place even though the breach of human rights forbid them from approaching the issue to a law level (Welebir and Kleiner‚ 2005). Sadly‚ comprehensible defenses of privacy opposed to security may never be evident from the view point of the law. Employers’ main apprehension is the decrease in productivity‚ virus attacks/ damaged equipment (i.e. computers)‚ legal charges and loss of classifies data. Employees’ major worry is incursion of
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Advances in Physical Security Terry L. Boss SEC- 581 Legal & Ethic Issues in Security Management April 13‚ 2014 Professor Elliott DeVry University I. Objective Statement A. Security today B. Security of Tomorrow II. Electronic detection systems A. Inferred lasers B. Night Vision Cameras C. Eye scanners D. Palm Scanners E. Finger Print Scanners F. Security Code Devices III. Barriers A. Plastic B.
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Minerals and Water Function Nanette Jones SCI/241 September 23‚ 2012 Augusta Downey This is the major Minerals (macrominerals) and their function and sources. the body need many minerals. Necessary minerals are from time to time divided up into major minerals (macrominerals) and trace minerals (microminerals). These two groups of minerals are equably valuable; however trace minerals are needed in smaller amounts than major minerals. A well-adjusted diet frequently provides all of the
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the deposits left behind by hard water. Limescale is mainly made up of calcium and magnesium. We advise you not to use acetic acid-based descaler (vinegar)‚ as this could have a negative effect on the taste of the coffee. Note: Never use a vinegar-based descaling agent with 8% or more acetic acid to descale the appliance‚ as this may cause damage. (2) citric acid is used mainly for home use‚ for getting rid of lime scale‚(kettles‚ baths‚ toilets)‚ in hard water areas.It is a natural material
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