EDigitizer: Your Electronic Planimeter with Many Features

August 15, 2007, 06:58:56 AM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-15

Determining areas and lengths of irregular objects on a map is a common and important practice by almost every discipline. For instance, to determine the area of a lake, a drainage basin, a parcel of land, a park, etc.. Commonly used methods are using such as millimeter papers, electronic or mechanical planimeters. EDigitizer is a software under Windows platform that performs the tasks of electronic planimeter with many features.
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Oxfam Calls for Radical Rethink of Flood Policies in South Asia

August 14, 2007, 03:58:54 PM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-14

Oxfam, which has launched emergency South Asian flood appeals in India, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Spain, New Zealand, Quebec, Canada, US and the UK, said that relatively small amounts of investment, compared with economic loses and the cost of flood responses, could make significant impact on people's ability to cope better.
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Farewell to \"flush and forget\"

August 11, 2007, 09:17:48 AM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-13

The current engineering concept for dealing with human waste is to use vast quantities of water to wash it away, preferably into a sewer system where it will be treated before being discharged into the local river. The “flush and forget” system is expensive, water-intensive, it disrupts the nutrient cycle, and it is a major source of disease in developing countries.
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How to live with flood while keeping it under control? The case of Bangladesh

August 10, 2007, 12:35:38 PM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-11

Planning and implementing a flood control programme by 20-25 years and spending billions of dollars in the process we can not afford and it does not make any sense. We are to live with flood as the American said and in our own simple way we shall have to control the flood. But what is that way? What we need to do?
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Scientists Work To See If Pumping Greenhouse Gas Emissions Into The Ground Is Feasible

August 09, 2007, 02:19:09 PM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-10

pumping huge amounts of carbon dioxide into underground caverns sounds audacious. If the U.S. captured just 60 percent of the CO2 emitted by its coal-burning power plants and reduced it to a liquid for injection underground, the daily volume would roughly equal what the U.S. consumes in oil each day — about 20 million barrels, according to a report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. And the risks are substantial.
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New approach to quantify groundwater pollution in urban-industrial zones

August 09, 2007, 07:02:35 AM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-9

In the case when groundwater contamination is detected, it becomes essential to determine the extent, level and source of contamination. Conventionally, among many others, determination of the extent and level of contamination is undertaken by taking as many samples as possible from several points
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Hydroxpert.com creates Experts Network (ENET)

August 09, 2007, 04:43:07 AM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-7

ENET is a global network of experts in one or more fields of hydraulic, hydrology, hydrogeology, environment, irrigation, drainage, water treatment, hydropower, etc.
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Rural poverty eradication is obstructed by energy scarcity, explains report

August 09, 2007, 03:04:17 AM
Hydroxpert Press Vol. 1-6

Efforts at the multisectoral level are required to demonstrate the impact of energy services in rural areas needed to improve the living conditions in the country.
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