Sürdürülebilir Yeşil Kampüs Koleksiyonu / Sustainable Green Campus Collection

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  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 3
    A Quality Assessment of Public Water Fountains and Relation To Human Health: a Case Study From Yozgat, Turkey
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2019) İritaş, Servet Birgin; Türksoy, Vugar Ali; Deniz, Serdar; Koçoğlu, Serhat; Kırat, Güllü; Demirkesen, Ali Can; Baba, Alper
    Public fountains are very common and everyday people appreciate the benefits a water fountain can bring. However, consumption of public fountain water in some country has decreased because of growing concerns that constituents in fountain water may have adverse effects on health. A few studies have examined the safety of public fountains, proposing only limited evidence of fountain-related health issues in Turkey. Most of these public fountains are sourced from natural springs in Turkey. In this study, a 177 fountain water and 32 rock samples were analysed for source and quality of water. The geology of the region has the direct impact on the quality of the public fountain water. The results indicate that the level of some elements exceeded the limit values determined by WHO and US.EPA. The most striking high values were observed for iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), aluminum (Al), arsenic (As) and bromine (Br) concentrations.
  • Master Thesis
    Investigation of Vegetation and Agricutural Soils in Relation To Groundwater by Using Geographic Information Systems (gis): a Case Study of Manisa, Alaşehir Basin
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Budak, Seda; Demirkesen, Ali Can
    Groundwater is a natural resource that is directly or indirectly affected by any intervention in nature that we use in all areas of our life. In this sense, the issue of the groundwater is a study-subject that interests many professions and researches. Urban planning is a profession area that is directly related to the groundwater issues as decision-making on spatial and functional decisions about the city and the natural environment. However, groundwater resources are not taken into account as aboveground natural resources during the planning phase. Plans without consideration of groundwater potential cause threatening consequences for both existing natural resources and residents in the region. For this reason, the focus point of the thesis is the groundwater and its determination and investigation of relationship among the groundwater, vegetation, and agricultural soils. The aim of this thesis is to determine the groundwater potential (GWP) locations of Alaşehir Basin by a multi-criteria (proxies) method based on Geographic Information System (GIS) integrated with Remote Sensing (RS). The method used in this study includes 10 proxies as mult-criteria that play important roles on determination of the potential of the groundwater, combining these proxies in a digital media and illustrating output image maps of them. These proxies are: Normalized Difference Vegitation Index (NDVI), Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI), land-use land-cover (LULC), lineament, topography (Digital Elevation Model – DEM), slope, drainage, lithology, hydraulic conductivity, and soil types. The main data sources of the study are: Landsat-8 OLI multi-spetral satellite image bands, the Aster Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the study area and the GIS data layers from the institutions and research studies. According to study, the most GWP locations are seen in northeast of Salihli, in southeast of Alaşehir and around Dereköy. This findings are so important for planning in terms of groundwater pollution risk management.