Assessment of groundwater recharge in urban areas 

    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 ...

    Decision analysis under uncertainity for sustainable development 

    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" ...

    Ecotoxicological risk of pollutants in Iberian rivers 

    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 ...

    Eliminación biológica de nutrientes en un ARU de baja carga orgánica mediante el proceso VIP 

    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 ...

    Eliminación biológica de nutrientes en un reactor biológico secuencial.- Caracterización y estimulación de las fuentes de carbono del agua residual urbana. 

    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 ...

    In-sewer organic sediment transport : study of the release of sediments during wet-weather from combined sewer systems in the Mediterranean region in Spain 

    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, ...

    Model order reduction methods for sensor data assimilation to support the monitoring of embankment dams 

    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 ...

    Modelación numérica integrada de los procesos hidráulicos en el drenaje urbano 

    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 ...

    Monitoring water, sanitation and hygiene services : developing tools and methods to measure sustainable acces and practice at the local level 

    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 ...