Drought and water supply

This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics.

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.

Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world.

Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics.

How is water scarcity becoming a serious problem worldwide-including in the United States?

Sustainable Surface Water Management: a handbook for SUDS addresses issues as diverse as flooding, water quality, amenity and biodiversity but also mitigation of, and adaptation to, global climate change, human health benefits and reduction in energy use.

Managing the urban water cycle needs to be underpinned by key sustainability principles of water consumption, water recycling, waste minimisation and environmental protection.

Water use and conservation in the American West have long been shaped by a host of geographic, environmental, political and economic factors.

Interest in biochar among soil and environment researchers has increased dramatically over the past decade.

Are we making the best use of water?

For generations the Rio Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors.

Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water?

Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water?

Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin provides an overview of the status of science in support of water management in Australia's largest and most economically important river catchment, and brings together the leading ecologists working in the rivers and wetlands of the Basin.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water.

This book is about water - in Britain, and in the world.

This book charts the history of the water catchments and water supply for the city of Melbourne, which has many unique aspects that are a critical part of the history of Melbourne, Victoria and Australia.

Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world.

Overview of systems of frequency distributions, their properties, applications to the fields of water resources and environmental engineering.

Between 1995 and 2005, the government of Alberta undertook major reforms to the way water is governed in the arid southern part of the province.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

El agua fluyey a su paso siembra vida.

Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises.

A thorough analysis of how effectively international courts and tribunals adjudicate transboundary water disputes, using detailed case studies.

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day.

How changing the way we think about water and energy can secure the long-term sustainability of both precious resources Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized.

It has been estimated that globally, 1.

With a sharp focus on environmental pollution and its impact on life and nature, scientists and engineers have studied the water treatment effect of natural wetlands for many years, resulting in the development of constructed wetlands (CWs) for treating wastewater.

Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions.

Qanat is a gently sloping subterranean canal, which taps a water-bearing zone at a higher elevation than cultivated lands.

A trans-disciplinary book offering evaluation-based approaches for effective participatory interventions, for academic researchers, practitioners and policy-makers working in water management.

Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse.

Through case studies, opposing viewpoints, and primary documents, this reference work examines the environmental and sustainability issues regarding water as well as how water is an intrinsic part of human culture.

Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature.

Water protection, food production and ecosystem health are worldwide issues.

Water is our planet s most precious resource.

Based on an international symposium addressing a key issue in global development, this reference includes both the latest methodologies for and practical examples of effective management of transboundary water resources.

Outlines the concept and principles of water harvesting for groundwater management for an international audience, and looks at the positives and negatives surrounding water harvesting technologies This book is the first to fully outline the concept and principles of water harvesting for groundwater management for a global audience.

WATER, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND SUSTAINABILITY An in-depth review of sustainable concepts in water resources management under climate changeClimate change continues to intensify existing pressures in water resources management, such as rapid population growth, land use changes, pollution, damming of rivers, and many others.

Providing safe and clean water for all without damaging the environment is one of the biggest challenges of the SDGs.

Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics.

This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states'' reliance on desalination plants, for researchers and policy makers.

The prospect of international conflict over water has long been the subject of academic and popular concern, but subnational political conflict is considerably more common, and almost certainly imposes greater economic and environmental costs.

Der Welt geht das Wasser aus: Können wir uns retten?

The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.