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Water Scarcity In The Jordan River Basin, Matthew Cook Nov 2014

Water Scarcity In The Jordan River Basin, Matthew Cook

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

The watershed of the Jordan River stretches over four countries – Jordan, Syria, Israel, and Lebanon – and includes the region of Palestine. With the land and its resources hotly contested by all parties involved, the dwindling supply of drinking and irrigation water from viable sources has led to scrambling exploitation, leaving the river and its connected lakes in an ever-worsening state of deterioration. Increased suspended solids, presence of toxin-producing cyanobacteria, and accelerated evapotranspiration have led to a slower, shallower, murkier, and lower health quality trickle taking the place of the once-revered River Jordan (Comair et al., “Watershed Delineation” …


Pharmaceuticals In Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Waters, Nicole Deziel Aug 2014

Pharmaceuticals In Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Waters, Nicole Deziel

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Waters.