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Tubau Fernández, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
In the city of Barcelona and the townships situated in the deltaic area of the Besòs River, groundwater is recognized as an aspect of urban water cycle management. There is groundwater seepage into infrastructure and ...
Ezbakhe, Fatine (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)
Policy-making for sustainable development becomes more efficient when it is reliably backed by evidence-based decision analysis. Concretely, this is crucial in the planning of public services delivery. By translating "raw" ...
Kuzmanović, Maja (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
More than one-third of Earths available freshwater is used for anthropogenic purposes, which has led to its contamination by numerous chemical compounds. Their presence in the environment might have negative consequences ...
Knobelsdorf Miranda, Juliana (Date of defense: 2005-07-14)
El objetivo principal de esta tesis doctoral es profundizar en el conocimiento de los procesos biológicos responsables de la eliminación simultánea de nitrógeno y fósforo en un ARU de baja carga orgánica, mediante un reactor ...
Barajas López, María Guadalupe (Date of defense: 2002-04-05)
Los objetivos de esta tesis doctoral son la caracterización de un agua residual urbana, la prefermentación del agua residual y la optimización de la eliminación biológica de nutrientes en el tratamiento del agua residual ...
Seco, Raquel Irene (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)
The accumulation of sediments in combined sewer systems may give rise to significant quality problems, which sometimes are overlooked. Solids deposited in the network may lead to more frequent overflows into natural waters, ...
Nasika, Christina (Date of defense: 2022-06-28)
The latest monitoring and asset management technologies for large infrastructures involve digital representations that integrate information and physical models, exist in parallel to the real-life structures, and are ...
Aragón Hernández, José Luis (Date of defense: 2013-07-02)
El crecimiento continuo de las ciudades, o la ocurrencia de un evento extraordinario de lluvia, en muchas ocasiones sobrepasa las medidas de diseño de algunos de los elementos del drenaje urbano (principalmente elementos ...
Giné Garriga, Ricard (Date of defense: 2015-11-21)
Water and sanitation improvements together with good hygiene (WaSH) have well-known positive impacts on human development and poverty alleviation. However, universal access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation remains ...