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-- a _kt75 | note   ► NEW : see all _kt75 | articles at a glance in the _news database   Tweet The next release of _ sust invent + includes: complete and corrected water inventories of Africa and Middle-East, in total more than 4'500 data sets comprising comprehensive documentation and including several thousand of online documents. Try it already today... or read more about the recent version - _ sust invent + v0 .51 RC 1 (single window version) . -- The Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management Vol 4 will be issued by mid of December 2013. It focuses on the following topics - Hydro power strategies in the Middle-East - Re-communalisation of water supply equipment in Europe - Implications of brown coal mining on ground water - Update of _sustinvent+ v0.605 RC1 Previous issues of the Notes are available via...

► NEW : see all _kt75 | articles at a glance in the _news database   -- a _kt75 | reprint   Tweet Owing to its strategic geographical location, Turkey is a very important player in the energy security of Europe. Using this opportunity, Turkey has a cherished desire of becoming an energy hub. Turkey is open to let any pipeline through its own territory to achieve this goal. With this aim Turkey not only seeks to ensure its own energy security and receive revenue from pipeline projects as a transit country but also one may assume that such kind of strategy could allow Turkey to open an energy chapter in the European Union (EU) negotiations and accelerate accession to the EU. However, because of some realities such as the competing pipelines supported by Turkey, political instability in the Caspian region, South Caucasus and Middle East, and the importance of the interests of the great powers such as Russia and Iran Turkey should not only believe i...

► NEW : see all _kt75 | articles at a glance in the _news database   -- a _kt75 | reprint     Tweet _progress | M replaces _kt75 | mirror. visit: http://progress-m.blogspot.com . ready: 01.07.2015. close ✕ This paper reviews the status of the water resources in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the context of the global pattern of increasing demand for water linked to population increase, a growing urban-based population and increasing economic progress. Jordan is currently one of the world‟s ten water poorest nations, a situation which is being exacerbated by a rapidly growing population. Jordan has a climate ranging from Mediterranean to Arid with approximately 80 per cent of the country receiving less than 100mm of precipitation annually. Evaporation ranges from around 2000mm per year in Zarqa in the north west of the country to over 5000mm per year in Ma‟an in the south. Renewable freshwater resources are of the order of 750-850 million cubic met...

► NEW : see all _kt75 | articles at a glance in the _news database   -- a _kt75 | reprint   Tweet _progress | M replaces _kt75 | mirror. visit: http://progress-m.blogspot.com . ready: 01.07.2015. close ✕ The year 2012 was another historic one for solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, which has experienced remarkable growth over the past decade and is on the way to becoming a mature and mainstream source of electricity. The world’s cumulative PV capacity surpassed the impressive 100-gigawatt (GW) installed electrical power mark, achieving just over 102 GW. This capacity is capable of producing as much annual electrical energy as 16 coal power plants or nuclear reactors of 1 GW each. Each year these PV installations save more than 53 million tons of CO2. Remarkably, even during a time of economic crisis, an estimated 31 GW of new PV capacity was commissioned around the world in 2012 – roughly the same as in the record-setting year of 2011. But even if the he...