Ecosystem Services Demand Management Under Climate Change Scenarios

Water ecosystem service is the most important element that supports Tafilalet agro-ecosystems. In this region, drought frequency is increasing, which complicate the management groundwater reserves. The ephemeral flows of the rivers force people to use groundwater to meet the population demand. Consequently, water resource management is of significant importance the sustainability of this area. Water evaluation and planning (WEAP) is useful management software used to evaluate and trace the trend of water demand. This model was applied in case of Ziz basin in order to simulate and analyze the situation of water under different scenarios. The results show an increasing of demand for water irrigation and with introducing modern irrigation scenario. However, a decreasing trend in reservoir storage volume and groundwater storage was projected in Tafilalet.

Characterizing the Stormwater Runoff Quality and Evaluating the Performance of Curbside Infiltration Systems to Improve Stormwater Quality of an Urban Catchment

The conveyance of stormwater has become a major concern for urban planners, considering its harmful effects for receiving water bodies, potentially disturbing their ecosystem. Therefore, it is important to characterize the quality of catchment outflows. This information can assist in planning for appropriate mitigation measures to reduce stormwater runoff discharge from the catchment. To achieve this aim, the article reports the field data from a typical urban catchment in Australia. The pollutant concentration from laboratory testing is then compared against national and international reported values. In addition, a stochastic catchment model was prepared using MUSIC. The study in particular reported on the techniques to model distributed curbside leaky wells with appropriate level of aggregation. The model informed regarding the efficacy of distributed curbside leaky well systems to improve the stormwater quality. The results indicated that catchment generated pollutant load, which is typical of Australian residential catchments. The use of distributed storages only marginally improves the quality of catchment outflows. It is because ability of distributed leaky wells depended on the intercepted runoff volume which is dependent on the hydrological storage volume of each device. Therefore, limited storage volume of current systems resulted in higher contributing area to storage ratio. This manifested in marginal intercepted volume, thereby only minimum reduction in pollutant transport from the catchment to outlet. Considering strong correlation between contributing impervious area and runoff pollutant generation, the study raised the concern that in lieu of following the policy of infill development, there can be potential increase in pollutant concentration in runoff outflows from Australian residential catchments. It is recommended to monitor stormwater quality from more residential catchments in their present conditions. This will assist in informed decision-making regarding adopting mitigations measures before considering developments.

Analysis of Membrane Deploying Process Based on Miura Origami

Aiming at a series of characteristics of the membrane structure in the folded configuration during the deploying process, the initial defect of the membrane crease is introduced by proxy model, and to realize the study of the deploying process of the membrane. Based on the finite element method, the deploying process of the multi-element Miura membrane is simulated. And the stretch ratio, maximum mises stress, deployment rate, wrinkle deformation, etc. of membrane structure are discussed. The existence of creases can cause damage to the membrane surface, so the total length of the creases should be within an appropriate size range. By changing the number of elements and the longitudinal crease angle of the same size membrane respectively, the influence of the above two factors on the total crease length, storage volume and deploying process of the folded membrane is studied. The results show that when the longitudinal crease angle is 15°, the transverse and longitudinal displacements of the Miura folded membrane with different element numbers are not synchronized during the deploying process. By keeping the number of elements constant and increasing the angle of the longitudinal creases from 15° to 45°, the synchronization of the transverse and longitudinal displacements during the membrane deploying process is gradually enhanced. In addition, the experiment on the membrane deploying process verifies the reliability of the finite element simulation results.

GoSeed: Optimal Seeding Plan for Deduplicated Storage

Deduplication decreases the physical occupancy of files in a storage volume by removing duplicate copies of data chunks, but creates data-sharing dependencies that complicate standard storage management tasks. Specifically, data migration plans must consider the dependencies between files that are remapped to new volumes and files that are not. Thus far, only greedy approaches have been suggested for constructing such plans, and it is unclear how they compare to one another and how much they can be improved. We set to bridge this gap for seeding —migration in which the target volume is initially empty. We prove that even this basic instance of data migration is NP-hard in the presence of deduplication. We then present GoSeed, a formulation of seeding as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem, and three acceleration methods for applying it to real-sized storage volumes. Our experimental evaluation shows that, while the greedy approaches perform well on “easy” problem instances, the cost of their solution can be significantly higher than that of GoSeed’s solution on “hard” instances, for which they are sometimes unable to find a solution at all.

Analisis Ketersediaan Air Waduk Gadjah Mungkur dengan Adanya Pembangunan Intake dan Jaringan Pipa Trasmisi Wosusokas

Gadjah Mungkur Reservoir is one of the multipurpose reservoirs built by damming the flow of the Bengawan Solo River. The Gadjah Mungkur Reservoir has existed for a long time with the main purpose of controlling flooding, but over time, this reservoir is also useful as a hydropower plant, irrigation, and also to meet the raw water needs of Wonogiri City. The potential of the Gadjah Mungkur Reservoir itself in meeting the needs of drinking water is an essential function in the people’s life around the reservoir. Therefore, the expansion of the scope of providing drinking water can be used to develop the potential of the Gadjah Mungkur Reservoir. This coverage expansion was realized through the construction of the Wosusokas intake and transmission pipeline network to drinking water receiving areas, namely Wonogiri, Sukoharjo, Solo, and Karanganyar, with service coverage of drinking water access resepectively ±78,38, ±70,97%, ±81,85%, and ±70,97%. This study aims to analyze the water availability of the Gadjah Mungkur Reservoir with additional coverage for drinking water services. The method used is a simple reservoir routing calculation by processing secondary data obtained in the form of inflow, outflow, and reservoir storage characteristics. The results of the analysis show that elevation variations with the construction of the Wosusokas intake and transmission pipeline have an annual average of +132,56 m in 2017, with a reservoir storage volume reaching 216,27 MCM and +134,29 m in 2018, with a reservoir storage volume reaching 284,92 MCM. However, there are some elevation values that exceed +138,0 m, namely at February to March 2018. However, overall, the results of the analysis show that the Wosusokas construction can increase the potential utilization of the Gadjah Mungkur Reservoir without endangering the reservoir with water level fluctuations that can still be controlled and in accordance with the regulation of reservoir water level.

The Revitalization of Makassar Urban Drainage System Based on Eco Drainage Retention Pond

One of the causes of flooding in Makassar City is the management of the water system that is not optimal. It is necessary to arrange a drainage system to overcome flooding in Makassar City. In this study the topography on Catchment area analysis, analysis of hydrology and hydraulics analysis. Modeling the distribution of flood performed using HEC-RAS applications. This research was conducted in the Tallo watershed which consists of the Upper Tallo sub-watershed and the Mangalarang sub-watershed. The results of the analysis of flood discharge in the Tallo Hilir sub-watershed are 523.76 m3/s and in the Mangalarang sub-watershed are 886.82 m3/s. The flood overflow of the Tallo River spread over 6.48 km2 of Manggala District, 0.31 km2 of Rappocini District, 4.24 km2 of Panakukang District, 3.37 km2 of Tallo District, 11.59 km2 of Tamalanrea District and 0.01 km2 of Biringkanaya District. The total area of flood distribution is 26 km2. The solution to overcome the flooding of the Tallo River with an environmentally sound drainage system, it is necessary to plan the construction of a retention pond in Tamalanrea District, with a normal total storage volume of 2.48 million m3 and a maximum capacity of 5.31 million m3. The construction of this retention pond can reduce 17.7 km2 of flood-affected area.