Browsing Theses by Subject "water"
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AquaCalifornia: Water Infrastructure in the Age of Scarcity
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-26)Water scarcity has always been a defining issue of the American West; and California is one of the western states that have long struggled with the management of its water resources. Over the past 5 years, California’s ... -
Automatic Identification of Algae using Low-cost Multispectral Fluorescence Digital Microscopy, Hierarchical Classification & Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-05)Harmful algae blooms (HABs) can produce lethal toxins and are a rising global concern. In response to this threat, many organizations are monitoring algae populations to determine if a water body might be contaminated. ... -
Bridging the health equity gap: examining the effects of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) gender-based violence on health and wellbeing in Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) is widely recognized as an important pathway to promoting human health and wellbeing. Despite the progress in access to water and sanitation in Low-and Middle-Income Countries ... -
Carving Away: An Inquiry into the Act of Making
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)The act of creating anything, from a novel to a simple meal to a building, requires the combination of many elements. Broadly speaking, these elements are technique, technology, and materiality, the three of which are ... -
Chlorine, Fluorine and Water in the Stratosphere: Chemistry, Transport and Trends based on ACE-FTS measurements
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) is a satellite mission for remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere using the solar occultation technique. The primary instrument on this satellite is the Atmospheric Chemistry ... -
Developing the Hydrologic Model of the Laurel Creek Watershed Including the Water Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)Continued growth of the Canadian economy has led to an increased population, which resulted in the progressive urbanization of Canada’s watersheds. Additionally, as infrastructure ages, an increasing percentage of drinking ... -
Distribution, Abundance, and Spatial Variability of Microplastic Pollution in Surface Waters of Lake Superior
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)Plastic pollution in oceans and lakes has been a concern for more than three decades, and largely through the breakdown of large plastics, microplastic pollution has been of real concern for over 20 years. Most research ... -
Distribution, diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica isolated from urban and rural streams
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)This study presents the spatial and temporal variability of Salmonella enterica in urban and rural streams in a model watershed (Grand River watershed, Ontario, Canada), and examines the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and ... -
Drinking Water Treatment Technology Resilience for Management of Severely Deteriorated Water after Wildfire
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-29)Severe wildland fire is occurring with increased frequency in many regions and can be potentially catastrophic for the provision of safe drinking water due to increasingly variable or deteriorated source quality. Deteriorated ... -
Element Focused Inquiry: Air and Water in American Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-12)Element focused inquiry, in dialogue with environmental-crisis literature, proposes a theory and a methodology to explore human-elemental becomings, particularly pertaining to air and water. EFI is mobilized to acquire ... -
Exploring the Implementation Potential of a Proposed Water Ethic: A Canadian Case Study into Underlying Ethical Considerations for Water Resources Management
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Ideas about water use and ethics have been linked for many thousands of years. In this millennium, water resources remain a primary area of concern throughout the world, including such issues as shortages, supply, flooding, ... -
Flowable-Electrode Capacitive Deionization for Treatment of Mining Process-Affected Water
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-26)Water is a critical resource in the mining and resources sector. It enables the extraction and materials processing operations that underpin this primary industry, and therefore everyday life. Water’s value in mining means ... -
Forested Watersheds and Water Supply: Exploring Effects of Wildfires, Silviculture, and Climate Change on Downstream Waters
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-13)Drinking water supplies for much of society originate in forests. To preserve the capability of these forests to produce clean and easily treatable water, source water supply and protection strategies focus in particular ... -
From Mountain to Maleh: Water as an Agent of Negotiation in the Kidron Valley/Wadi an-Nar
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-05)In a site with significantly fractured political, social, and environmental governance, it comes as no surprise that the West Bank’s water network is fraught with issues. Over-pumping of groundwater, inadequate sewage ... -
Geographies of Urban Filth
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)This thesis studies how our cultural understanding of dirt and cleanliness are bound to issues of class and race and how they are manifested within urban and spatial design. Boundaries are formed between clean and dirty, ... -
A Herschel/HIFI study of Water in Two Intermediate-Mass Star Forming Regions: Vela IRS 17 and Vela IRS 19
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-27)While the single core accretion model for low mass star formation is well developed, it cannot simply be extended into the high mass star formation regime where clustered star formation dominates. The study of intermediate-mass ... -
It's ON at Ontario Place - Or is it?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-18)This thesis It’s ON at Ontario Place - Or Is It? addresses the roles that architecture and landscape play in shaping the waterfront and park systems into designed connected networks that respond to local, social, sustainable, ... -
Lest the Taps Run Dry: Urban Infrastructure, Water Demands and Drought
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-05)Hydrologically-driven urban water shortage situations (urban droughts) are becoming increasingly widespread under the combined forces of urbanization and global climate change. Canadian cities are not exempted from these ... -
The Management of Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-10)Abstract: Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, collectively known as pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), have been detected in surface water, groundwater, and drinking water, in a number of countries, since ... -
Mediations of Shattered Water: Environmental Intimacy & the Dissolution of the Self
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)In a time of accelerated environmental degradation, a human-centric approach to engagement has engendered a pervasive cultural passivity towards the environment. This fatalistic detachment amplified by technological advances ...