PAUWES Master Thesis Series: Recent submissions
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Evaluating And Comparing the Global Warming Potential From Black Soldier Fly Bioconversion of Faecal Matter, Pig Manure and Chicken Manure
(VIRGINIA WAMBOI GACUTHI, 2025-04-15)Global warming, climate change and water pollution have become pressing environmental concerns worldwide. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to grow from 7.8 billion in 2020 to 9.9 billion people, generating ... -
Assessment of the Influence of Agriculture and Domestic Waste on Surface Water Quality A case study of Senegal River (Rosso, Mauritania)
(Aissata Abdallahi M’BAYE, 2025-04-13)The physicochemical and bacteriological characteristics of the Senegal River in the Rosso region were meticulously examined across various sampling stations (Back, Djourbel, Iset, and M’Pourier) and were assessed for ... -
Flood Risk Management using HEC-RAS Rain On-Grid Model for the 2024 March – April - May El-Nino Flood Event: A Case Study of Nyando River Basin, Kenya
(ELIZABETH NYABOKE MOMANYI, 2025-04-14)Flood events have led to several casualties and widespread suffering among populations worldwide. The Nyando River Basin has historically been susceptible to perennial floods during El Niño flood events. This study, ... -
THE CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE OF URBAN WATER SECURITY IN KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
(Elie Katya Muyali, 2025-04)Low water security is widely recognized by policymakers and academics as a global risk and policy challenge especially in rapidly urbanizing cities. Kinshasa, the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of ... -
Assessing Meteorological and Agricultural Droughts in the Mitidja Plain- Algeria: Trends and Impacts on Agricultural Productivity
(Eldaw Ahmed Mohammed Eldaw, 2025-04)Droughts threaten water resources and agricultural productivity, particularly in semi-arid regions like the Mitidja Plain, Algeria. This study comprehensively assesses meteorological and agricultural droughts using the ... -
EVALUATION OF WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS USING THE WEAP
(RAHMOUN Chihab Eddine, 2025-04-17)The Oran coastal basin, a semi-arid region in north-western Algeria, is under increasing water pressure due to climate change (rainfall is expected to fall by 10-20% by 2050) and exponential demand for water, particularly ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED DRINKING WATER MANAGEMENT MODEL: BUJUMBURA CITY, BURUNDI
(Anthia Sarah Carmel IRAKOZE, 2025-04-13)Water utilities encounter an enormous obstacle in ensuring the efficient and sustainable distribution of drinking water. That is the case in any growing city like the case of Bujumbura City in Burundi which has an old ... -
Diagnosis of the governance of the water supply system in Bangui, Central African Republic
(Albert Boece POUNATONGO, 2025-04-16)Access to drinking water remains a major challenge in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, where drinking water supply infrastructure is inadequate and poorly maintained. This study aims to analyse the ... -
EFFECTS OF NON-REVENUE WATER ON THE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF WATER UTILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF BENIN: A CASE STUDY OF SONEB IN PARAKO
(Okombawa Adolphe SODJAHIN, 2025-04-16)Non-Revenue Water (NRW) critically undermines the technical and financial sustainability of public water utilities across Africa, yet its specific impact on operational performance remains understudied. This research ... -
Economic Analysis of Treated Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture: Algeria study case
(ABDELLAOUI Meriem El Batoul, 2025-04-30)Water scarcity is a pressing issue in Algeria, making wastewater reuse an essential alternative for sustaining agricultural production. This study conducts a cost analysis of wastewater reuse in Algerian agriculture, ... -
MAINSTREAMING SUSTAINABILITY IN PUBLIC SPACE: FORMULATING ENERGY STRATEGIES THROUGH URBAN DESIGN IN GABORONE, BOTSWANA
(PAUWES, 2021-11-16)As cities embrace climate change adaptation and mitigation, it has become critical to address energy issues in public spaces in the quest to achieve sustainable urban development. However, sustainability projects in the ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF A GIS-BASED SUPPORT TOOL FOR INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE RIVER AGNEBY BASIN, SOUTH OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE
(PAUWES, 2021-11-20)Climate change, rapid population growth, anthropogenic land use changes, can be classified among global phenomena that put enormous pressure on water resources. Côte d’Ivoire, like most West African countries, has ... -
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF PREPAID METERS ON COMMUNAL WATER POINTS IN MALAWI: A CASE STUDY OF LILONGWE PER-URBAN AREAS.
(PAUWES, 2021-11-17)Water is usually obtained from communal water points such as kiosks in Lilongwe's peri-urban areas. Increased indebtedness, which resulted in more waterpoints being disconnected, prompted the Lilongwe Water Board to ... -
Hydraulic modeling of flood risk on the scale of an African agglomeration in Cote d’Ivoire
(PAUWES, 2021-11-30)In the context of urban flood control, it is essential to develop tools and methods to model surface runoff at the scale of the agglomeration. The process of flooding is relatively common in some regions of the world, ... -
INTEGRATING GIS AND HYDRAULIC MODELING FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN OF WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS: A CASE STUDY OF THE CITY OF BUKAVU IN DR CONGO
(PAUWES, 2022-03-09)Drinking water is one of the vital needs for human beings' survival. However, access to drinking water represents strong inequalities on a global scale. While in some countries, even rural communities have access to a ... -
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON GIS BASED METHODS AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM IN LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MODELING, A case study of Bududa, Uganda
(PAUWES, 2021-11-15)Landslide susceptibility modeling is of critical importance to landslide risk management, urban planning, understanding landscape evolution, and identifying landslide spatial and temporal signatures. In this study, the ... -
FLOOD SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT IN THE NAKAMBE BASIN, BURKINA FASO
(PAUWES, 2021-11-18)Flood is the most disastrous natural disaster in the world due to its devastating effects that endanger lives and cause property damage to the affected areas. Flood events are alarmingly increasing all over the world; ... -
TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT FOR A SOLAR PV MINI‐GRID (CASE STUDY OF MATEKENYA AREA, DOWA DISTRICT, MALAWI)
(PAUWES, 2021-11-16)Countries are trying to accomplish Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 7 which aims to achieve universal access to energy by 2030. However, electricity access in Africa is at 44% [1] which is very low as compared ... -
Sustainable Energy Solution in Algeria: a Collection of Good Practices from SSB Japan's Project to Provide Effective Solutions for Energy Paradigm Shift
(PAUWES, 2021-09-18)The global energy demand is projected to increase, even in the face of substantial declines in fossil energy intensity because of energy demand needs of population and economic growth. Fossils fuels could not no longer ... -
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY OF BLOCKCHAIN BASED PEER-TO-PEER ENERGY SYSTEM IN RURAL AFRICA: Case Study Algeria
(PAUWES, 2021-11-18)Algeria is the Saharan Africa is still very far behind in terms of access to modern energy. 548 million people, which is 47% of the population still lack access to electricity in 2018 and unreliability of electricity ...