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1 International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) (Comp.) 1994. International Conference on Land and Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean Region, Instituto Agronomico Mediterraneo, Valenzano, Bari, Italy, 4-8 September 1994: Volume III - Integrated land and water resources management. Unpublished conference papers. pp.665-883.
Water resource management ; Land management ; Irrigated farming ; Water harvesting ; Salinity control ; Arid zones / Middle East / Egypt / Jordan / Syria / Tunisia / Italy / Mediterranean / Tuscany / Maremma
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 INT Record No: H020934)
2 Ghinassi, G.; Martin, A.; Trucchi, P. 1994. Salinity control tests in the Tuscan Maremma (Italy) In International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) (Comp.), International Conference on Land and Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean Region, Instituto Agronomico Mediterraneo, Valenzano, Bari, Italy, 4-8 September 1994: Volume III - Integrated land and water resources management. pp.873-883.
Salinity control ; Experiments ; Soil salinity ; Irrigation water ; Water quality ; Rain ; Drainage / Italy / Tuscany / Maremma
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 INT Record No: H020941)
3 Servat, E.; Demuth, S.; Dezetter, A.; Daniell, T.; Ferrari, E.; Ijjaali, M.; Jabrane, R.; Van Lanen, H.; Huang, Y. (Eds.) 2010. Global change: facing risks and threats to water resources. Proceedings of the Sixth World FRIEND Conference, Fez, Morocco, 25-29 October 2010. Wallingford, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). 698p. (IAHS Publication 340)
Hydrological factors ; Hazards ; Adaptation ; Water resource management ; Flooding ; Drought ; Environmental monitoring ; Simulation models ; GIS ; Mapping ; Decision support systems ; Watersheds ; Risk assessment ; Groundwater ; River Basins ; Climate change ; Case studies ; Seasonal variation ; Runoff ; Floodplains ; Historical aspects ; Reservoirs ; Hydrological cycle ; Surface water ; Water scarcity ; Water quality ; Water balance ; Evapotranspiration ; Urban development ; Land use ; Land cover ; Erosion ; Aquifers / France / Russia / Czech Republic / Tunisia / Algeria / Italy / Brazil / Europe / Africa / Vietnam / Norway / Slovakia / Germany / Colombia / USA / Caribbean / Benin / Cameroon / UK / Chile / Nitra River / Oueme Region / Chellif River Basin / Taquari River Basin / Terek River Basin / Tuscany / Crati River Basin / Volta River Basin / Thach Han River Basin / River Elbe Basin / Harz Mountains / Algerian Coastal Basin / Volta River Basin / Berrechid Plain / Upper Niger River / Moulouya Watershed / Atlantic Ocean / Danube River / Sudano-Sahelian Catchment / Yaere flood plain
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 SER Record No: H043485)
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4 Muoio, R.; Caretti, C.; Rossi, L.; Santianni, D.; Lubello, C. 2020. Water safety plans and risk assessment: a novel procedure applied to treated water turbidity and gastrointestinal diseases. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 223(1):281-288. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2019.07.008]
Drinking water treatment ; Risk assessment ; Public health ; Gastrointestinal diseases ; Water quality ; Turbidity ; Water treatment plants ; Water supply ; Filtration / Italy / Tuscany
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049489)
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Water Safety Plans (WSPs), as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), can help drinking water suppliers to identify potential hazards related to drinking water and enable improvements in public health outcomes. In this study we propose a procedure to evaluate the health risk related to turbidity in finished water by determining the cases of drinking water-related gastrointestinal diseases. The results of several epidemiological studies and three-year time series turbidity data, coming from three different drinking water treatment plants (WTPs) located in Tuscany (Italy), have been used to determine the relationship between drinking water turbidity and gastroenteritis incidence and to assess the health risk attributable to the turbidity of tap water. The turbidity variation occurring in the treated water during the monitored period showed an incremental risk compared to the baseline value from 9% to 27% in the three WTPs.
Risk reduction due to each treatment step was also evaluated and it was found that a complete treatment train (clari-flocculation, sand filtration, activated carbon filtration and multi-step disinfection) reduces risk by over 600 times. Our approach is a useful tool for water suppliers to quantify health risks by considering time series data on turbidity at WTPs and to make decisions regarding risk management measures.
Risk reduction due to each treatment step was also evaluated and it was found that a complete treatment train (clari-flocculation, sand filtration, activated carbon filtration and multi-step disinfection) reduces risk by over 600 times. Our approach is a useful tool for water suppliers to quantify health risks by considering time series data on turbidity at WTPs and to make decisions regarding risk management measures.
5 Damm, A.; Cogliati, S.; Colombo, R.; Fritsche, L.; Genangeli, A.; Genesio, L.; Hanus, J.; Peressotti, A.; Rademske, P.; Rascher, U.; Schuettemeyer, D.; Siegmann, B.; Sturm, J.; Miglietta, F. 2022. Response times of remote sensing measured sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, surface temperature and vegetation indices to evolving soil water limitation in a crop canopy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 273:112957. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.112957]
Plant water relations ; Leaf water potential ; Canopy ; Remote sensing ; Surface temperature ; Vegetation index ; Chlorophylls ; Fluorescence ; Soil water ; Maize / Italy / Tuscany
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050996)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425722000712/pdfft?md5=f358a1acfb0c958d984037b09f412ce7&pid=1-s2.0-S0034425722000712-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050996.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050996.pdf
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Vegetation responds at varying temporal scales to changing soil water availability. These process dynamics complicate assessments of plant-water relations but also offer various access points to advance understanding of vegetation responses to environmental change. Remote sensing (RS) provides large capacity to quantify sensitive and robust information of vegetation responses and underlying abiotic change driver across observational scales. Retrieved RS based vegetation parameters are often sensitive to various environmental and plant specific factors in addition to the targeted plant response. Further, individual plant responses to water limitation act at different temporal and spatial scales, while RS sampling schemes are often not optimized to assess these dynamics. The combination of these aspects complicates the interpretation of RS parameter when assessing plant-water relations. We consequently aim to advance insight on the sensitivity of physiological, biochemical and structural RS parameter for plant adaptation in response to emerging soil water limitation. We made a field experiment in maize in Tuscany (Central Italy), while irrigation was stopped in some areas of the drip-irrigated field. Within a period of two weeks, we measured the hydraulic and physiological state of maize plants in situ and complemented these detailed measurements with extensive airborne observations (e.g. sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF), vegetation indices sensitive for photosynthesis, pigment and water content, land surface temperature). We observe a double response of far-red SIF with a short-term increase after manifestation of soil water limitation and a decrease afterwards. We identify different response times of RS parameter representing different plant adaptation mechanisms ranging from short term responses (e.g. stomatal conductance, photosynthesis) to medium term changes (e.g. pigment decomposition, changing leaf water content). Our study demonstrates complementarity of common and new RS parameter to mechanistically assess the complex cascade of functional, biochemical and structural plant responses to evolving soil water limitation.
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