Addressing water management and technologies, each making up an individual volume, this collection presents best practices as a foundation, then moves on to stress emerging technologies and strategies that facilitate water sustainability for future generations.
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This report assesses the Republic of Kazakhstan significant efforts to improve water supply and sanitation (WSS) services over the past 15 years, notably in terms of ambitious target-setting, implementation of a sound water tariff policy, and significant investment in the rehabi…
Argues that a long history of mismanagement of water resources has endangered our water supplies, suggests ways to conserve water, and discusses the economic, political, and social aspects of water.
Takes us on a journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the country and its people. Water is a key that unlocks much of Chinese history and thought.
"Federal Rivers is an important addition to worldwide water policy discussions. It offers realistic windows into a central focus of water policy - governance. The book describes how river management which crosses jurisdictional and sovereign boundaries is both influenced by and …
"The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual water and water governance. While the new conceptual lenses may generate insig…