Heavy metal contamination in Mediterranean riparian ecosystems presents serious risks to biodiversity and human health, requiring innovative biomonitoring methods for polluted watersheds. This study developed a comprehensive biomonitoring framework for an industrially impacted Mediterranean river basin, with approximately 100,000 tons of contaminated waste in landfills from decades of metallurgical processing. We investigated...

This paper explores water consumption in Dhaka city for better understanding of its usage, and considers the implications of findings from distributive rationale. Using 459 household survey data collected by BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), this study estimates income elasticities of water consumption after controlling the effects of other covariates including wealth-proxies, location, household size, water...