BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   PREDICTING DIMENSIONLESS LONGITUDINAL DISPERSION COEFFICIENT IN NATURAL STREAMS BY FUZZY-LOGIC APPROACH   Z. Fuat Toprak Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, Hydraulics Division 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, TURKEY toprakzey@itu.edu.tr In order to investigate dispersion process, researchers have used differential equations, which can be written under certain […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   INFORMATICS SERVER FOR IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENT DATA – COLLECTING DATA FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES AND BUILD WARNING PROCEDURES ABOUT NORMAL AND EXTREME VALUE OF DATA DISTRIBUTION OVER A LARGE REGION   Boris Sekirarski Hydrometeorological Service Skupi bb, 1000 Skopje, Republic of MACEDONIA bsekirarski@meteo.gov.mk Windows based solutions, without any […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   SUB-SYSTEM BASED ON HYDROLOGICAL MODELING AND GIS TECHNOLOGY FOR FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE NATO SFP “TIGRU” PROJECT   Valentina Ungureanu1, Gheorghe Stancalie2, Viorel Alexandru Stanescu1 1National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management Sos. Bucuresti-Ploiesti 97 – 013686 Bucuresti – ROMANIA   2National Institute […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT – AN EXAMPLE   Werner Lahmer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) P.O.Box 60 12 03 – D-14412 Potsdam, GERMANY wernerlahmer@onlinehome.de Climate changes and various anthropogenic pressures on the environment have large impacts on the regional water cycle (water […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   ON THE FLOOD FORECASTING AT THE BULGARIAN PART OF STRUMA RIVER BASIN   Dobri Dimitrov National Institute of Meteorology & Hydrology 66 Tzarigradsko Shose bul. 1784 Sofia, BULGARIA Dobri.Dimitrov@meteo.bg Struma is a mountain river flowing from North to South, from Bulgaria through Greece up to the […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   A SURVEY OF RISK PERCEPTION OF DRINKING WATER AND BOTTLED WATER USE   Gurdal Kanat, Mehmet Emin Birpinar Yildiz Technical University, Environmental Engineering Department, 34349 Besiktas, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr Public concerns about quality of drinking water have arisen as a result of increased awareness about environmental […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   WATER BALANCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA : ACHIEVEMENTS AND NECESSITIES   Ognjen Bonacci1, Bojana Horvat2 1Civil Engineering Faculty, University of Split Matice hrvatske str. 15 – 21000 Split; Croatian Waters, VGO Rijeka, CROATIA   2Đure Šporera 3 – 51000 Rijeka, CROATIA obonacci@cigla.gradst.hr The paper presents […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ISTANBUL   Gurdal Kanat1, Mehmet Emin Birpinar1, Ahmet Demir2 1Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY   2Yildiz Technical University, Environmental Engineering Department, 34349 Besiktas, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr In recent years, mainly due to densely urbanization and migration to the cities, the cost of […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   A PARTITIONING METHODOLOGY FOR IDENTIFICATION OF HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS IN REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS   Bhagabat Prasad Parida University of Botswana, Private Bag UB 00704, Gaborone, BOTSWANA paridab@mopipi.ub.bw Flood has been one of the world’s greatest disasters with the highest public profile. Even in spite of extensive […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   WATERSHED REGULATION AND MANAGEMENT OF METROPOLITAN CITY OF ISTANBUL   Ahmet Demir, Mehmet Emin Birpinar, Gürdal Kanat Yýldýz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr Istanbul is one of the world’s most important cities in terms of history, culture, trade and tourism. Annual population increase is approximately 400.000. […]