WATER E-JOURNAL STUDENT EDITION
2024
Metagenomic analysis of foaming anaerobic digesters
T Micallef
This research will contribute to the understanding of foaming mechanisms, which is necessary for developing methods for management and prediction of foaming events ...
Read Full PaperTransforming land use management to enhance water quality in catchments
G T Ayele, B Yu and David P Hamilton
A groundbreaking PhD study has explored the impacts of afforestation in a small temperate catchment, demonstrating its potential to enhance water quality while addressing ...
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Drinking water catchment protection as disaster risk reduction: Modelling community support for restrictive recreation policy using the health belief model
Dr H Marlin
Drinking water contamination, which can result in the loss of life or injury to customers and damage to water sources...
Read Full PaperSequencing-based monitoring of pathogenic viruses in wastewater
T A Prosun
The concept of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), which was initially developed for polioviruses (and a few other infections) many years ago, was widely...
Read Full PaperAn eco-geomorphological modelling framework for vulnerability assessment of coastal wetlands
A Breda
Our world is going through a quick transformation, and a significant effort has been made to develop models to predict the impacts of...
Read Full PaperApplication of high-frequency, real-time data for a fertiliser management decision-support system
M Luna, E Bertone, R Stewart
The purpose of the project, overall, is to look at ways to contribute to nutrient runoff mitigation and how real-time sensors can be used to...
Read Full PaperColloidal silica and silica-rich nanoparticles through stages of reverse osmosis (RO) treating coal seam gas associated water: occcurrence, evolution and speciation
E Sarabian, G Birkett, S Pratt
Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane filtration is a very common process for treating a wide range of groundwater types including...
Read Full PaperComparison of chlorine and ultraviolet disinfection processes for wastewater treatment
R Smith, A Allan
Disinfection is a crucial component of any wastewater treatment process. This ensures safety for customers, as well as environmental protection. Effluent should be...
Read Full PaperDeveloping a peaks-over-threshold based flow estimation method
X Pan, A Rahman
Flood is one of the worst natural disasters, which cause billions of dollars of damage globally each year. Due to climate change, flood severity is...
Read Full PaperDeveloping electrochemical sensors for real-time analysis of inorganic nitrogen in water
F Tan
In Australia, all wastewater treatment plant sites that release to receiving waters, implement programs to monitor and assess the effects of potential contaminant...
Read Full PaperDevelopment of a sustainable automatic disinfection system for rainwater treatment
S Latif, A Rahmman, A Alim
In many remote areas, where mains water is unavailable, roof harvested rainwater (HRW) is one of the principal sources of drinking water. On many occasions, the...
Read Full PaperDevelopment of new regional flood estimation methods for New South Wales
A Rahman
Design flood estimation is a major task in hydrologic design and often carried out using recorded flood data by at-site flood frequency analysis. Due to presence of...
Read Full PaperDevelopment of strategies to reduce, remove and recover microplastics from the whole of water supply cycle
K Senathirajah
Microplastics, a recognised emerging contaminant, have been detected in the whole of water supply cycle, including raw water, treated drinking water as well as...
Read Full PaperDrought modelling and evaluation in south-east Australia
G Yildirim, A Rahman
Droughts are complex in nature and affect more people than any other natural hazard. An adequate monitoring on different aspects of droughts is required for effective...
Read Full PaperEffectiveness of rainwater harvesting systems for Australian capital cities
P Preeti, A Rahman
The aim of this doctoral research is to assess the water-saving potential and financial viability of a rainwater harvesting (RWH) system under different climatic...
Read Full PaperEffects of in-sewer processes on the fate of coronavirus in wastewater
Y Guo, G Jiang, M Sivakumar, S Luby
Wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) has the potential of becoming a powerful approach to monitor pathogen prevalence and serving timely intervention during...
Read Full PaperEnhanced stormwater treatment performance by design modifications to the permeable pavement structure
U Kuruppu, A Rahman, C Leo
Managing urban stormwater runoff is a challenge since quality of urban runoff can be degraded, and its quantity is increased as result of increased impervious...
Read Full PaperEnhancing integrated DAMO-anammox processes for nitrogen and methane removal
Y Chen
Beyond the limits of human sight is an unseen universe that only microscopes can explore. In wastewater, it’s full of microorganisms like bacteria. Alone bacteria may play a negligible role, but together...
Read Full PaperEnhancing wastewater-based epidemiology of pathogenic Campylobacter
S Zhang
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has raised great concerns of public health. Fast and efficient surveillance methodology is urgently required to strengthen the ability...
Read Full PaperGreater Hobart chlorine control review
R Murtagh-Linnell, A Rahman
This project aims to: (1) Assess what the chlorine dose rate and concentrations should be at various key points as water flows throughout the system. Different flow and water quality configurations will...
Read Full PaperIdentification of homogeneous regions in regional flood frequency analysis under changing climate
A Ahmed, A Rahman
In water resources management and design of hydraulic structures, regional flood frequency analysis (RFFA) is needed as this can provide design flow estimation for...
Read Full PaperImpacts of climate change on temperature in New South Wales, Australia
O Laz, A Rahman, D Hagare
Climate change affects many aspects of the environment. One of these effects is a rising temperature. It is evident that both...
Read Full PaperInvestigation of the presence and control of cyanobacteria in paper mill wastewaters
H Burger
To identify the basis for the occurrences of cyanobacteria to bloom proportions within the ponds of an Aerated Stabilisation Basin (ASB) for treatment of wastewaters from...
Read Full PaperManaging the risk of Legionella in drinking water treatment aeration systems
D Yunana
Legionella bacteria in natural and engineering water environments are considered one of the leading causes of waterborne disease outbreaks. Efforts to manage the frequency of...
Read Full PaperNon-stationary flood frequency analysis in Australia
A Hossain, A Rahman
Flood is one of the worst natural disasters, causing millions of dollars worth of damage and human deaths every year in Australia, and around the rest of...
Read Full PaperOnline water quality monitoring and process control using UV-Vis sensors
Z Shi
Why and how suspended particles in the water affect water quality measurements using online UV-Vis instruments? How to eliminate particle interference and obtain...
Read Full PaperRegional flood frequency analysis in Australia using generalized extreme value distribution
L Rima, A Rahman, K Haddad
Flood is one of the most catastrophic natural disasters that bring disruptions to services and damages to infrastructure, agricultural production, and...
Read Full PaperPost-processing sub-seasonal to seasonal climate forecasts under climate change
Y Shao
Land surface air temperature and precipitation have shown marked temporal trends in many parts of the world over recent decades. For managing the impacts of...
Read Full PaperRegional flood frequency analysis using linear and non-linear techniques
A Zalnezhad, A Rahman, B Samali
Regional Flood Frequency Analysis (RFFA) is widely used in practice to estimate design floods in ungauged catchments. Previous studies on RFFA focused on...
Read Full PaperReligious motivations to preserve water: an Islamic perspective
M Hurayra, A Rahman, A Alim
Water has a special place in the world’s culture and religion. There are numerous rituals in different religions that revolve around water. Sustainable water use, which is...
Read Full PaperSolution to drinking water supply for rural community based on rainwater harvesting
Q Tranh Tri, A Rahman, M Alim
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems can be used to produce drinking water in rural communities where there are limited/no clean drinking water supplies. Previous research has...
Read Full PaperUse of microalgae for treating municipal wastewater reverse osmosis concentrate and resource recovery
A Mohseni, L Fan, F Roddick
Management of reject streams generated from reverse osmosis (RO) processes poses one of the major economic and environmental challenges facing the...
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