Browsing Research Units by Subject "water"
Now showing items 1-5 of 5
-
Achieving Green Building in Qatar through Legal and Fiscal Tools
( Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) , 2019 , Article)This article considers how the advancement of green building can provide multiple dividends in Qatar by enabling reduced resource consumption and producing less waste. LEED® certified “green” buildings consume between 10% ... -
Concurrent adsorption of cationic and anionic dyes from environmental water on amine functionalized carbon
( IWA Publishing , 2020 , Article)Amine functionalized carbon (AFC) was synthesized from raw oil fly ash and later utilized it for simultaneous removal of methyl orange (MO) and rhodamine 6G (Rh6G) pollutant dyes from aqueous medium. AFC was analyzed through ... -
Regional Well-to-Wheel Carbon, Energy, and Water Footprint Analysis of Electric Vehicles
( Atlantis Press , 2018 , Conference Paper)Adoption of alternative vehicle technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have the potential of reducing some of the environmental impacts ... -
Urban water pricing in Yemen: a comparison of increasing block tariffs to other pricing schemes
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)This study examines the viability of increasing block tariffs (IBTs) to achieve the right balance between efficiency, financial requirements and equity, and compares them to alternative pricing schemes. Using numerical ... -
Yemen’s Water Woes: Why Climate Change Is a Drop in the Bucket
( MALCOLM H. KERR CARNEGIE MIDDLE EAST CENTER , 2024 , Book chapter)The water crisis in Yemen did not start with the current conflict. It is a governance crisis stemming from sustainability failures dating back to the post-independence era. Groundwater depletion has been underway for ...