Sharmin Siddiqui¹, Xavier E.Z. Rios², David A Kaplan³, Sandra J Torres⁴, Andrea Encalada⁵, Elizabeth Anderson⁶ and Mark F. Allaire¹, (1)University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Quito, Ecuador, (3)University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (4)Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios en Recursos Hídricos, Quito, Ecuador, (5)Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Quito, Ecuador, (6)Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States