Water sensitive urban design (WSUD) encompasses all aspects of integrated urban water cycle management, including water supply, sewerage and stormwater. Water Sensitive Urban Design is about planning and design the way of water, the related environmental resources and the whole water infrastructure. The considerations of water cycle management is important for urban development that contributes to an ecologically city. Water cycle management covers; drinking water, stormwater run-off, waterwa...
1. Disasters are of various types caused by natural phenomena as well as compounded by human error. Natural disaster may be of various type such as earthquakes, cyclone, tornado, flood etc. and other events such as drought, crops failure, etc. whereas man made disasters may include radiation accidents, gas leakage accidents bomb explosion, war time rioting, firing etc. Natural Disasters are unlike anything else in human experience. These are largely beyond control of human being resulting qui...
The use of ethanol as a fuel dates back as far as back as 1908 when Henry Fords first model Ts ran on 100 ethanol. The engine could run on standard gasoline or ethanol that at the time was made completely from corn. To this day ethanol produced in the United States is still made from corn. Corn is used in today's ethanol because it is the most widely produced crop in the United States. Also, there is not a shortage of corn. The use of corn, going into ethanol production, has gone from 5% in 2...
Global warming is changing the weather patterns around the globe. This also impacts on the 'carbon sinks' of the world, the biggest of which is the Amazon rainforest. Your assignment is to research the impact of the global warming on the ability of the amazon rainforest to absorb the world's carbon emissions and make predictions for the future based on current scientific evidence. This is a controversial issue and scientists may not necessarily all agree. You are expected to discuss at least ...
Matters related to pollution are dated way back in the 9th and 13th century. Many scientist and researchers raised concerns of pollution in different areas due to the outcome of various types of pollution for example mishandling of natural resources such as soil, water, among other environment factors. The interest cumulated to definitions of terms like pollution as the entry of contaminants or foreign matter into a natural environment thus bringing about instability, harm or some interruptio...
Sustainable living is about a lifestyle that reduces an individual's or society's use of global natural resources (Ainoa et al. 2009). For sustainable living, we should conduct our lives in ways that are consistent with the core principles of sustainability, in natural balance and respectful of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology and biological cycles (CELL, 2010?). Such a living style requires that we make serious attempts to reduce our carbon footprint by alte...
Introduction Renewable energy is not a new concept; it has been with us for thousands of years in different forms. Renewables provide an infinite source of energy and mainly use the natural resources that are part of our natural environment. Examples of these include: BioMass, Hydro, Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal, Waves etc. This paper examines the concept of different forms of renewable energy in terms of both advantages and disadvantages. Comparative analysis between this and other types o...
water utility and involved operations that assesses the system's ability to reduce the risks of different types of threats. The VA exercise identifies weaknesses of our systems security and focuses on the type of possible threats that could keep you for providing a safe and reliable supply of water to the consumers. Once the VA is completed, the water works would know which of its system components might be vulnerable and security upgrades and also the operational changes which will reduce th...
Natural soils are often composed of separate layers. Foundations of engineering structures are designed to transfer and distribute their loading to the underlying soil and/or rock. Therefore, the designer must ensure that the structure does not suffer from excessive displacements. In this research, it is intended to make a generalized numerical solution through a computer program written in MATLAB to analyze a multilayered nonhomogeneous (Gibson-type) soil, where the stiffness contrast ...
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