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Authors: Chong, Tan Yew; Advisor: -; Participants: Noh, MD Nasir Bin Mohd; Poh, Lim Sin; Choong, Micheal Teh Jin (2018) - Water is the core of sustainable development. Water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population and
this percentage is projected to rise. Malaysia, despite having abundant annual rainfall, experiences water stress
in major cities. In order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6), the Malaysian government recognizes the need to harvest water using alternative methods. As a result, Malaysia has recently seen a paradigm shift in water resources development works from traditional upstream reservoirs to downstream reservoirs.
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Authors: Yuan, Jian Zhong; Advisor: -; Participants: Wu, Cai E (2018) - Shanghai has three coastal reservoirs used for drinking water sources in the Yangtze estuary. They are the
Qingcaosha reservoir, the Dongfengxisha reservoir and the Chenhang reservoir. This article discusses why
Shanghai needed to build coastal reservoirs and their evolution. The characteristics of the Shanghai drinking water sources are introduced. The key factors and the experience gained from the research and design of the Shanghai coastal reservoirs have been summarized and explained.
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Authors: Falconer, Roger; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2018) - The world faces considerable water management challenges now and increasingly in the future; primarily brought about by: the predicted impacts of climate change, the increasing need to provide more water, food and energy for a growing global population, and increasing globalisation leading to a wider global wealth distribution and a
corresponding increase in demand for water, associated with the need for more commodities (such as cars, clothes) etc. In addition, in most countries world-wide there is an increasing population shift away from rural
communities to larger urban cities, where there are better employment prospects, and with these cities often being located near the coast.
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Authors: Sitharam, Thallak. G.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2018) - A solution to the water problem in parts of India along the coast is to conserve the abundant monsoon water bounty, store it in coastal reservoirs, and use this water in areas which have occasional inadequate rainfall, or
are known to be drought-prone, or in those times of the year when water supplies become scarce. Coastal reservoirs are an innovative concept, which offers the potential to store the flood waters of a river near the point
where it flows into the sea and meet the water requirements of water starved cities [1]. Mangaluru city, in Karnataka state, India is blessed with the river Netravati, which carries a great quantity of water during the monsoon and ends up in the sea. The annual runoff at the mouth of the Netravati River is estimated to be 388 thousand cubic met...
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Authors: Sitharam, Thallak. G.; Advisor: Sreevalsa, Kolathayar; Participants: - (2018) - The Thaneermukkom salt water barrier bund was constructed in 1974 to prevent tidal action and intrusion of salt
water into the Kuttanad low land across the Vembanad Lake in Kerala, India. This bund divides the Vembanad
lake into two, Thaneermukkom in the south with fresh water fed by the rivers draining into the lake and Vechur in
the north with brackish water fed by the Arabian Sea. This bund creates a fresh water storage reservoir by storing
river flood water, which has helped the farmers in Kuttanad, where farming occurs below sea level. The gates of
the bund are opened during the monsoon period and are closed after approximately six months. This article
reviews the present status of the Thaneermukkom reservoir and provides suggestions for tackling its environmental and eco...
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Authors: Cantos, Jared Ortiz-Angulo; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2018) - Surfing has been increasing in popularity over the last few decades. In order to have good conditions for surfing,
several factors must simultaneously coincide. These include swell waves, off-shore winds and the optimum bathymetric configuration. Beach profiles and reefs that yield suitable waves for surfing are difficult to find in
nature. This drives coastal engineers to construct reef like artificial submerged structures to improve the interaction between the wave and the sea bed and enhance the quality of the waves for surfing. The design of these reefs is inspired by natural reefs with perfect surfing waves. The aim of this research is to provide a novel numerical approach for the design of submerged structures that improve surfing conditions and to study the economic viabili...
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Authors: Lin,Pengzhi; Advisor: -; Participants: He, Zhiguo; Gong, Zelin; Wu, Jinquan (2018) - Modern river basin management treats flooding not only as a threat, but also as a precious water resource. In inland areas, dams are built to impound water in reservoirs. In coastal regions, however, building reservoirs does
not seem to be an obvious choice, at least at first glance. How to develop more freshwater for coastal cities
becomes a challenging issue. For coastal regions with abundant precipitation and/or river outflow, the key to
solving water shortage problem is to find a suitable place to store freshwater, especially during the flood season.
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Authors: Tetsuya Sumi; Advisor: -; Participants: Kantoush, Sameh A. (2018) - The major threat to extend the life expectancy of dams in Japan is reservoir sedimentation. Upgrading and retrofitting aging dams is mandatory to maintain their purposes and safety over the productive life cycle. A perfectly sustainable solution for every situation does not exist, but it is essential to select a sediment management strategy appropriate for the particulars of each reservoir, considering both the sedimentation issues in the reservoir and environmental conditions in the channels downstream of the dam. The key criteria are timing
of implementation and an appropriate combination of viable sediment management strategies.
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Authors: Sanjay Giri; Advisor: -; Participants: Pramod Narayan (2018) - Dams and reservoirs are important assets in India with strong seasonal flow pattern variations and highly increasing water and energy demands due to rapid growth of economy and population.The negative impacts of
dams and reservoirs can be attributed to poor planning, mismanagement, inefficient operations and insufficient
consideration (or negligence) of mitigation strategies. The importance of dams and reservoirs and both their positive and negative impacts should be objectively measured vis-a-vis multi-sectorial benefits, specific priorities
and demands.
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Authors: Hussain, I.; Advisor: -; Participants: Cattapan, A.; Franca, M.J. (2018) - The problem might seem quite simple to analyse at a local scale; however, the sediment yield of a river basin is affected by other factors, such as surface run-off, temperature, slope stability, making the sedimentary processes more complicated to model and requiring basin scale approaches. The multipurpose Mangla Reservoir, in Pakistan, is losing its storage capacity at a yearly rate of about 0.5 % (1,970 million of m3 lost between 1967 and 2010, before up-raising the dam in 2011). The impacts of land use changes in the Mangla Dam basin were assessed, showing that the current trend will not be affected greatly if the land use remains unchanged from the present conditions. However, if large levels of deforestation occur in the future, the increase in the sedimentation rate would h...
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