Quality of water and time of travel in Yockanookany River, Choctaw County, Mississippi

From a phenomenological perspective, the reflective quality of water has a visually dramatic impact, especially when combined with the light of celestial phenomena. However, the possible presence of water as a means for reflecting the sky is often undervalued when interpreting archaeoastronomical sites. From artificial water spaces, such as ditches, huacas and wells to natural ones such as rivers, lakes and puddles, water spaces add a layer of interacting reflections to landscapes. In the cosmological understanding of skyscapes and waterscapes, a cross-cultural metaphorical association between water spaces and the underworld is often revealed. In this research, water-skyscapes are explored through the practice of auto-ethnography and reflexive phenomenology. The mirroring of the sky in water opens up themes such as the continuity, delimitation and manipulation of sky phenomena on land: water spaces act as a continuation of the sky on earth; depending on water spaces’ spatial extension, selected celestial phenomena can be periodically reflected within architectures, so as to make the heavenly dimension easily accessible and a possible object of manipulation. Water-skyscapes appear as specular worlds, where water spaces are assumed to be doorways to the inner reality of the unconscious. The fluid properties of water have the visual effect of dissipating borders, of merging shapes, and, therefore, of dissolving identities; in the inner landscape, this process may represent symbolic death experiences and rituals of initiation, where the annihilation of the individual allows the creative process of a new life cycle. These contextually generalisable results aim to inspire new perspectives on sky-and-water related case studies and give value to the practice of reflexive phenomenology as crucial method of research.

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Chất lượng nước ở Bắc Bình dựa trên các kết quả phân tích hóa học và vi sinh

Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.15625/0866-7187/28/4/11698 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 484-497

Author(s):

Phan Thị Kim Văn ◽

Bùi Trần Vượng

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Water ◽

Microbiological Analyses

The quality of water in Bac Binh according to chemical and microbiological analyses

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Spatial and Temporal variation analysis of water quality of Hemavathi River, Karnataka, India

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i9.109 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (9) ◽

pp. 196

Author(s):

Santhosh K. M ◽

S. Prashanth

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Agricultural Runoff ◽

Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽

Final Conclusion ◽

Variation Analysis ◽

Pollution Load ◽

Quality Of Water ◽

Pollution Loading ◽

Origin Point

Urban development, agricultural runoff and industrialization have contributed pollution loading on the environment. In this study Hemavathi river water from a stretch from its origin point to its sangama was studied for pollution load by determining parameters of water quality like pH, Alkalinity, Ca, Mg, Nitrate, TDS, BOD, COD , and the results were compared with WHO and BIS standards to draw final conclusion on the quality of water.

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