Mousa Maleki

Considering the increase of human activities in nature and its effects on the environment and water resources, the necessity to change the approach in hydrology modeling is inevitable. Until the last few years, scientists studied the science of hydrology without considering the role and integrated effect of human intervention on the environment and...

Smart building with internet of things (IoT) is one of the technologies that is developing rapidly. Digital devices are not only in our pockets, but also increasingly present at buildings. For example, we can refer to a temperature control sensors that continuously measure the temperature of a room. After measuring the temperature of the area, thes...

This article provides a brief introduction to the three main methods of soft computing, including artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic, and their application in rainwater runoff modeling

Landslides have attracted researchers’ attention because they are one of the threats to human lives. As landslides cause a lot of damage to forests and their growth, agricultural lands, power and gas transmission lines, mines, engineering structures, and buildings, they create big problems from an economic point of view. Accordingly, landslides hav...

The interactions between groundwater and surface water are complex and dynamic and are known to show considerable spatial and temporal variability. Generally hydrological studies that investigate these interactions are conducted at weekly to yearly timescales and inadvertently lose information contained at the neglected shorter timescales. To perce...

Urban infrastructures are mostly interdependent in various ways. A variety of qualitative explanations is presented in the literature to analyze and address resiliency and vulnerability. Unfortunately, most of the explanations do not provide an objective resilience index computation. This chapter attempts to develop resilience indices and computati...

Water scarcity is the first and most challenging crisis worldwide. Atmospheric water, also known as air humidity, is one of the most accessible resources and therefore could be used as a sustainable resource for water harvesting. There are some mechanisms for atmospheric water harvesting, including the following methods: vapor condensing, active co...

In view of high population growth and water resources deficit in arid and semiarid area and groundwater resources shortage in mountainous area, there is an urgent need to identify the alternative sources of potable water. Fog is one of such sources of water. Although fog water yielding potential is largely ignored by water authorities, it was used...

The interactions between groundwater and surface water are complex and dynamic and are known to show considerable spatial and temporal variability. Generally hydrological studies that investigate these interactions are conducted at weekly to yearly timescales and inadvertently lose information contained at the neglected shorter timescales. To perce...

Nowadays water resources protection, by application of optimized, sustainable and economical approaches, for logical utilization of water has turned to one of the most vital and challenging issues worldwide. Additionally, water reuse, known as a strong factor in managing water crisis, is an appropriate alternative to handle this challenging crisis....