From the Proceedings of the 1978 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 14-15, 1978, Flagstaff, Arizona / A network of rain gauges and two recorder -equipped flumes were installed near the head of Cottonwood Canyon on Mt. Hopkins in the Santa Rita Mountains pursuant to a water development study for the Smithsonian Institution's Mt. Hopkins Astrophysical Observatory. The watershed is generally characterized by steep slopes, a dense evergreen woodland cover predominated by several species of oaks, isolated bedrock exposures and talus chutes. The watershed for the lower flume site comprises about 145 acres (58.60 ha) with an elevation range from about 6775 to 8580 feet (2,065 to 2,615 m). Rainfall-runoff measurements were made during the summer and fall of 1977. A runoff efficiency of 0.56 percent was calculated for the lower-flume watershed. However, since physical evidence of surface flow was found only in side drainages receiving runoff from culverts located along the Mt. Hopkins access road, a second calculation was made, using only the total area of contributing road surface as the watershed area. This yielded a runoff efficiency of 27.0 percent. The latter value, adjusted for infiltration on the slopes below the culverts, agrees well with measured efficiencies for compacted-earth water harvesting catchments. Based on the above, recommendations were made for developing a water supply system using the access road, modified to increase its effectiveness, as a water harvesting system and having two surface reservoirs for storage. A computer model was used to test the capability of the system to meet the projected water needs of the observatory.

South Africa is a semi arid country in which the average rainfall of 450mm/year is well below the world average of about 860mm/year. As a result, South Africa’s water resources are scarce in global terms and limited in extent. Current predictions are that demand will outstrip water availability in the next 15 years. A coordinated approach to improve both water quality and quantity is needed and in order to achieve that, it is crucial to strengthen capacities of local community involvement in identifying the problems that affect them and strategies to solve them. This research was undertaken to develop a deeper understanding of community learning processes in integrated water resources management (IWRM) practices. The study drew on situated and social learning theory which explains that knowledge and skills are learned and embedded in the contexts in which knowledge is obtained and applied in everyday situations. Multiple data collection techniques were used within a case study design and included document analysis, interviews, focus group discussions and field observations. Data analysis was done in three phases and involved uncovering patterns and trends in the data sets. In this context I discovered, through careful observation and interviews with members of the different communities of practice, that people are learning through social learning interactions with other community members as they engage in their daily water management and food production practices. Learning interactions take place through both informal and formal processes such as meetings, training workshops, conversations and interactions with outsiders. I also discovered that people learn from ‘external groups’ or training programmes which bring new knowledge and expertise, but this needs to be contextualised in the local communities of practice. The research has also shown that there are a number of challenges that appear to exist in these learning contexts. For instance it was found that participation and social learning processes and interactions are influenced by a range of causal mechanisms that are contextual. These insights into how communities learn, as well as the tensions and difficulties that are experienced in the learning processes are important for furthering learning and participation in community-based IWRM practices, projects and programmes.

Environmental education is an approach to education which emphasises the interrelatedness of people and their human and non-human environments and seeks to encourage environmental awareness, concern and action. This case study documents the implementation and development of Project WATER, Grahamstown, a practical environmental education project dealing with catchment conservation and water quality monitoring. The Grahamstown project is one of a number of local water quality monitoring initiatives affiliated to GREEN (the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network). Participants in the project included student teachers from the Department of Education at Rhodes University and pupils and teachers from three farm schools in the district and four high schools in the town. Project WATER, Grahamstown developed as an Action Research and Community Problem-Solving project. The study focuses on fragmentalist and holistic approaches to education, people's responses to Project WATER and the choice of action research as the research method.

This thesis examines the historical introduction and spatial expansion of modern water supply infrastructure in Amhara region across the three successive regimes: imperial, military, and EPRDF. It attempts to explore the institutional setup of the three governments together with their policies and strategies. The study also aims at giving an idea about the socio-economic changes registered because of improved access to safe water. Furthermore, it assesses the water consumption and conservation pattern of the society and the environmental impact of the water infrastructure development. Modern infrastructure development in Ethiopia traced its beginning back to the late 19th century. Safe drinking water supply had been one of those modern infrastructures introduced in Addis Ababa. Not long afterwards, it proliferated to the provinces. In Amhara region, drinking water supply infrastructure construction began in the early 20th century. However, this thesis inquired whether there was a programmed water supply infrastructure development before the mid-1950s or not. The water supply work started gaining momentum and became a state program in the late imperial period. However, it was affected by financial, technological and trained human resource constraints, lack of appropriate institution, defective management systems, and improper implementation methods. The military government had strengthened water supply institutions and improved workers' expertise. These developments helped the water supply infrastructure work to be executed in a programmed manner. Yet, financial restraints, the incessant political chaos of the time and the accompanied disruptive working environment had greatly impacted the temporal and spatial coverage of the water supply infrastructure development. The promising start of the Derg period did not continue with similar pace during the early years of the EPRDF rule. Despite the efforts made to set up water institutions at Regional, Zonal and Woreda (district) levels, no significant achievement was recorded in the field. The aftermath of the civil war together with internal and external challenges epitomized the transition period had impinged on the water supply work. This thesis testifies to the emergence of some socio-economic changes in the region. Yet, the slow progress of the water supply infrastructure work had stalled the socio-economic change that should have been registered through improved access to safe water supply. Despite the observable environmental degradation, the thesis argues that the retarded water supply work had nothing to do with the dearth of fresh water. While the trend shows steady growth of water consumption level across the three regimes, the conservation habit of the population remained low. / D.Litt. et Phil. (History)

South Africa is a water-scarce country and receives less rainfall than the average rainfall of the World. As population increases, and development calls for increased allocation of ground water and surface water for the domestic, agriculture and industrial sectors, the pressure on water resources intensifies. This is exacerbated by the wastages that occur in schools and homes. Conservation of water by all consumers is essential. The study attempts to identify practices that lead to wastage of water and indicate strategies for the reduction of water wastage and conservation strategy. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Environmental Education)

Acompanha: Caderno pedagógico: inserção da pegada hídrica nas aulas de ciências do Ensino Fundamental / A inclusão de discussões associadas ao consumo de água nas aulas de Ciências assinala para a necessidade da contextualização e ampliação desse tema, direcionando-o a abordagens mais atualizadas, frente à crise hídrica do Brasil e de vários outros lugares do mundo. Deste modo se promovem discussões mais aprofundadas no contexto educacional, levando em conta a Pegada Hídrica. Este estudo diz respeito a uma investigação cujo problema central reside na seguinte questão: como a utilização de estratégias didático-metodológicas embasadas por elementos decorrentes da ferramenta denominada Pegada Hídrica contribui para a compreensão de assuntos relacionados à utilização/destino e conservação da água por parte dos estudantes, a considerar a crise atual envolvendo esse recurso natural? A investigação é de natureza qualitativa, desenvolvida com 35 estudantes do 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental em uma escola de Curitiba. O recorte metodológico é do tipo participante com a utilização de múltiplos recursos para a constituição de dados. Para estruturar a composição de tais estratégias realizou-se, antes do trabalho em sala de aula, uma pesquisa de levantamento sobre questões relativas à água, especialmente quanto à percepção dos estudantes frente aos níveis de consumo em diferentes contextos (agricultura, indústria e doméstico). Isso permitiu a elaboração de um questionário investigativo (levantamento) sobre a forma como os estudantes percebem, relacionam e compreendem aspectos relativos aos recursos hídricos. Aliou-se a isso a opção de instrumentos que facilitam a apreensão de dados, tais como: diário de campo (espécies de memorandos), manuscritos de participantes da investigação e gravações em áudio. Diante desse contexto, a análise de conteúdo, proposta por Laurence Bardin, se mostrou mais apropriada para a apreciação dos dados, uma vez que tal método constitui-se em uma pré-análise, seguida de exploração do material para tratamento dos dados e por fim, sua interpretação. Os resultados da investigação salientaram que os estudantes participantes têm se mostrado reflexivos e abertos às discussões sobre o conteúdo tratado. A análise dos dados nos informa que as proposições de estratégias didático-metodológicas diferenciadas e contextualizadas, embasadas por elementos decorrentes da Pegada Hídrica, objetivou de modo mais acurado, na compreensão de assuntos relacionados à utilização/destino e conservação da água. Deste modo, entendemos que o uso de temas de caráter socioambiental pode se configurar em importante ferramenta para propiciar discussão e contribuir para o aprendizado em ensino de Ciências, como no caso a crise atual dos recursos hídricos no Brasil. / The inclusion of discussions about water consumptions in Science classes highlights the need of contextualization and expansion of the theme, in particular the need to deal with the theme accor-ding to more updated approaches due to the current water crisis lived in Brazil and in many other places around the world so that more profound discussions are carried out in the educational context; examples of this are discussions that focus on water footprint. This investigation refers to a study which main research question was: how does the use of didactic-methodological strategies based on elements of water footprint contribute to students´ understanding of issues related to the use and water preservation considering the current crisis of this natural resource? This qualitative inves-tigation was carried out at a post-graduate level – Master´s degree – with the participation of 35 (thirty-five) 6th grade students at a Basic Education school in the Curitiba. The methodology involved participants and the use of multiple tools for data generation. In order to structure the teaching strategies, before the work in class, a survey was developed about issues related to water, especially students´ perception about the level of water consumption in various contexts (agriculture, industry and domestic). The survey supported the design of an investigative questionnaire about how students perceive, relate to and understand aspects related to water resources. In addition to the survey, tools that facilitate the generation of data such as: field diary (similar to memos), participants´ manuscripts and audio recordings were used. From this perspective, content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin, seemed the appropriate approach for the data analysis, as this method represents a pre-analysis followed by the exploration of the material for later treatment of the data and, finally, the interpretation. The research results point out that participating students have shown reflective and open to discussions about the treaty content. Data analysis tells us that the propositions of educational-methodological strategies differentiated and contextualized, supported by elements stemming from the WF, the objective of accurate way in understanding issues related to use / destination and water conservation. Thus, we noted that the use of social environmental issues, can set an important tool to foster discussion and contribute to learning in science teaching, such as the current crisis of water resources in Brazil.

This research focused on evaluating and comparing the perceptions, water-use behaviour, water conservation awareness and overall water stewardship of participants residing in Hammanskraal and Atteridgeville who have experienced intermittent water supply in their domestic households – due to either water contamination incidents caused by dilapidated infrastructure or water restrictions implemented by the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality during the 2016–2017 drought in the Gauteng Province. The research concluded that the municipality needs to implement proactive water conservation awareness initiatives on an ongoing basis to reduce high water demands and to create a culture of water stewardship, especially in Atteridgeville. Transparent communication is also required from the municipality to instil the necessary trust among the public. It is recommended that the municipality attends to water leaks and ongoing complaints from the public timeously to reduce the current apathy from the public against reporting water-related issues and to ultimately ensure compliance to water restrictions. / Hierdie navorsing fokus op die evaluering en vergelyking van deelnemers wat in Hammanskraal en Atteridgeville woon se persepsies, waterverbruiksgedrag, waterbewaringsbewustheid en algehele waterrentmeesterskap, wat onderbroke watervoorsiening in hulle huishoudings ervaar het – as gevolg van waterbesoedelingsvoorvalle wat deur vervalle infrastruktuur veroorsaak is en waterbeperkings wat deur die Stad Tshwane Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit gedurende die 2016 tot 2017-droogte in Gauteng ingestel is. Die navorsing het tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die munisipaliteit proaktiewe waterbewaringsbewustheidsinisiatiewe op ’n deurlopende grondslag moet implementeer om hoë wateraanvraag te verminder en ’n kultuur van waterrentmeesterskap, veral in Atteridgeville, te skep. Deursigtige kommunikasie word ook van die munisipaliteit vereis om die nodige vertroue by die publiek te kweek. Daar word aanbeveel dat die munisipaliteit betyds aandag aan waterlekkasies en deurlopende klagtes van die publiek sal gee om die huidige onverskilligheid van die publiek by die aanmeld van waterverwante aangeleenthede te verminder en om uiteindelik te verseker dat die publiek die waterbeperkings eerbiedig. / Patlisiso ena e ne e tsepame hodima ho lekola le ho bapisa maikutlo, boitshwaro ba tshebediso ya metsi, tsebo ka poloko ya metsi le tlhokomelo e akaretsang ya metsi ke bankakarolo ba dulang Hammanskraal le Atteridgeville ba bileng le phepelo ya metsi e kgaohang malapeng a bona – e ka ba ka lebaka la diketsahalo tsa tshilafatso ya metsi e bakilweng ke dipeipi tse senyehileng kapa ho kgaolwa ha metsi ho kentsweng tshebetsong ke Masepala wa Motsemoholo wa Metropolitan wa Tshwane nakong ya komello ya 2016–2017 porofenseng ya Gauteng. Patlisiso e fumane hore masepala o hloka ho kenya tshebetsong matsholo a ho atisa tsebo ka poloko ya metsi ka mokgwa o tswellang e le ho fokotsa tlhokeho e phahameng ya metsi le ho theha ditlwaelo tsa tlhokomelo ya metsi, haholo ho la Atteridgeville. Ho boetse ho hlokeha puisano e hlakileng e nang le ponaletso ho tswa ho masepala e le hore setjhaba se be le tshepo ho ona. Ho kgothaletswa hore masepala a sebetsane le diketsahalo tsa ho dutla ha metsi le ditletlebo tse tswellang tse tswang ho setjhaba ka potlako e le ho fokotsa maikutlo a ho tsotelle a tswang ho setjhaba mabapi le ho tlaleha mathata a amanang le metsi le ho netefatsa hore batho ba latela melawana ya phokotso ya metsi. / Geography / M. Sc. (Geography)

The City of Tshwane is the capital city of South Africa and the administrative seat of government. The status of the city as a capital creates high expectations on the level of basic service delivery on municipal services like waste management, water, electricity and health. The city is currently facing challenges in relation to the delivery and implementation of waste management services. In an attempt to find solutions to the waste management challenges of the city a study on the implementation of waste management services is undertaken by the researcher. The study identifies and then analyses the underlying reasons for the challenges faced by the City of Tshwane in the implementation of waste management services. This aim of this study was to investigate and to analyse the implementation of waste management services in the City of Tshwane’s historically disadvantaged areas with particular focus on Region 01, 02, 05 and 07. In order to investigate these factors, a descriptive research design and qualitative methodology was used which related to convenient and purposive sampling of officials and data collected from fifteen (15) respondents using semi structured interviews and observations. The study also utilised document analysis to interpret the challenges and solutions related to the research topic. It emerged from the study that a lack of capacity and resources to perform efficient waste management services underpinned many of the challenges experience by the city. The failure of the city to ensure community participation and involvement is another reason for the challenges the city faces in waste management. Furthermore, the lack of policy implementation and enforcement is an element that the city needs to deeply consider. When policy is crafted with input of residents and when there is a social contract as to the roles and responsibilities of each party, it becomes easier to enforce. Some of the challenges that the city faces with regards to waste management can also be attributed to political interference and institutional deficiencies. Beyond issues like capacity, institutions and others, the city will continue to face challenges if it does not seriously invest in innovation and new technologies that address its generic and specific conditions in relation to the management of waste. The marginalisation and selective enforcement of by-laws on the informal recyclers and reclaimers are some of the findings of the study that demonstrate the inability of the city to find specific solutions to specifics regions on waste management .These challenges resulted in the peri urban regions like region 01, 02, 05 and 07 not receiving quality and consistent waste management services. The study recommends some interventions to address the waste management problems identified in the highlighted regions and entire City of Tshwane. Some of the recommended interventions include, assessing the unique characteristics of the communities and regions with a view of identifying waste management solutions that will be relevant for the circumstances and profile of such regions, ensure that proper and adequate resources, infrastructure and capacity is deployed to such areas to improve the waste services in those areas. Furthermore aggressive education and awareness campaigns conducted in partnership with communities will be critical to change people’s attitude towards waste management and a clean environment. This can be achieved through a consultative process led by the City of Tshwane in partnership with its communities and enforced through a progressive and incentive driven by-law system. / Public Administration and Management / M.P.A. (Master of Public Administration)

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-05-16T16:25:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SUZIANE ALVES JOSINO LIMA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGSA PROFISSIONAL 2013..pdf: 1665995 bytes, checksum: 4eed2f6035be9bceb5a44d6e3cccd7e7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-16T16:25:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SUZIANE ALVES JOSINO LIMA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGSA PROFISSIONAL 2013..pdf: 1665995 bytes, checksum: 4eed2f6035be9bceb5a44d6e3cccd7e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-19 / O Brasil, atualmente, possui uma tendência de crescimento do cultivo do coqueiro anão verde, distribuídos, praticamente, em todo o território nacional. A água de coco é utilizada na cultura popular como substituto da água, e também para repor eletrólitos nos casos de desidratação. Objetivou-se neste trabalho avaliar o processo de armazenamento da água de coco anão verde, produzidas comercialmente e envasadas assepticamente, por indústrias do Sertão Paraibano e do Ceará. Foram coletadas, identificadas, amostras em duas unidades industriais, no dia da sua fabricação, transportadas para o laboratório em caixas isotérmicas com gelo, onde foram analisadas, quanto aos parâmetros físico, físico químicos, microbiológicos e sensoriais, a fim de avaliar a qualidade da água de coco logo após o seu processamento. As amostras obtidas nas indústrias foram armazenadas de acordo com o planejamento fatorial experimental 22 com três repetições do ponto central, para avaliar quantitativamente a influência das variáveis de entrada sobre as respostas, turbidez, condutividade, viscosidade, pH, sólidos solúveis totais, acidez, ácido ascórbico. Constatou-se que a água de coco refrigerada deve ser armazenada a baixas temperaturas, para que sua vida útil possa ser de dez dias. Com o tempo de armazenamento, houve uma diminuição nos valores de pH, vitamina C, condutividade elétrica e sólidos solúveis totais para ambas as indústrias, sendo que os valores de sólidos solúveis totais estão de acordo com o permitido pela legislação, menos para o experimento 4.O pH de todos os experimentos não estão em conformidade com o permitido por legislação, houve aumentos simultâneos para as indústrias quanto aos parâmetros analisados de turbidez, viscosidade, e acidez total titulável, o binômio tempo x temperatura influenciou consideravelmente os parâmetros analisados durante o armazenamento. Microbiologicamente as indústrias não estão em conformidade com o padrão estabelecido pela legislação vigente para coliformes termotolerantes, bolores e leveduras. Não foram encontrados valores para Salmonella sp em nenhuma das amostras analisadas. Sensorialmente a água de coco com 15 dias de armazenamento já se mostrou imprópria para o consumo humano, apresentando características organolépticas alteradas. Sendo indispensável à implantação e monitoramento de Boas Práticas de Fabricação para as indústrias que envasam água de coco. / The Brazil currently has a tendency to increase in cultivation of green dwarf coconut spread virtually throughout the national territory. The coconut water is used in popular culture instead of water, and also to replenish electrolytes in cases of dehydration. The objective of this study was to evaluate the storage process of green dwarf coconut water, commercially produced and bottled aseptically, the Hinterland by Paraiba and Ceará industries. It was collected, identified, samples from two industrial units on the date of its manufacture, transported to the laboratory in cool boxes with ice, where they were analyzed for the physical parameters, chemical, microbiological and sensory physical in order to assess the quality of coconut water after processing. The samples were stored in industries according to the 22 experimental factorial design with three replications of the central point , to quantitatively evaluate the influence of input variables on the responses , turbidity , conductivity, viscosity , pH , total soluble solids , acidity , acid ascorbic . It was found that the chilled coconut water should be stored at low temperatures, so that its life may be ten days. With storage time , there was a decrease in pH , vitamin C , electrical conductivity and total soluble solids for both industries , and the values of soluble solids are in accordance with the permitted except for experiment 4 . the pH of the experiments are not in accordance with the extent permitted by law, there were simultaneous increases in the industries analyzed for parameters of turbidity , viscosity , and total acidity , the binomial time x temperature significantly influenced the parameters analyzed during storage . Microbiologically industries are not in accordance with the standard established by law for fecal coliforms, yeasts and molds. No values for Salmonella were found in any of the samples. Sensory coconut water with 15 days of storage has already proved unfit for human consumption, with altered organoleptic characteristics. Being essential to the implementation and monitoring of Good Manufacturing Practices for industries envasam coconut water.