"The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. Contested Waters tells the river's story-a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion. Beginning in prehistory and continuing into t…
The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. This book tells the river's story - a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion. Beginning in prehistory and continuing into the pre…
Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health, this book addresses questions on the relationships between …
Water supply engineering
by Punmia, B. C., Jain, Arun Kumar, Jain, A. K., (Ashok Kumar)
This contributed volume offers a state-of-the-art, holistic overview of the employment of a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach to implement the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a geographical focus on applications in different African regio…
Water -- Elements of the hydrologic cycle -- Properties of aquifers -- Principles of groundwater flow -- Groundwater flow to wells -- Soil moisture and groundwater recharge -- Regional groundwater flow -- Geology of groundwater occurrence -- Water chemistry -- Water quality and …
This book presents up-to-date information on the status of water resources in India. The book presents an assessment of the surface water and groundwater condition to help stakeholders take the necessary actions to control the pollution to make the water resources of India susta…
En Afrique de l'Ouest comme dans d'autres Suds, la crise de l'eau est déjà une réalité. Ce livre analyse avec clarté la réponse ambitieuse qu'y ont apportée les Etats riverains du fleuve Sénégal: la mise en place de l'OMVS, un cadre institutionnel et juridique comptant parmi les…