Drought and water supply

SHORTLISTED IN THE GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS BETH CHATTO ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD.

Nestled amidst rolling hills, Shillong, the Himalayan capital city of Meghalaya in India's northeast, faces a growing challenge of water scarcity.

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

How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse narrated audiovisually in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the Planet?

Drylands, a home for nearly 2.

Conservation tillage systems have been adopted by farmers in many countries to solve the problem of land degradation and declining water productivity.

Urban Water Cycle Processes and Interactions represents the fruit of a project by UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme on this topic.

El manejo del agua urbana presenta desafíos significativos desde la intervención en espacios naturales para el crecimiento de la ciudad.

Most large river basins in the world are transboundary.

Water is an integral part of our daily lives, yet most of us have little idea about how much water we use to maintain our lifestyles and the extent to which our lifestyles pollute and degrade water resources.

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

Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and uncovered the basic cause of the increasing vulnerability of the Nigerian rural poor during the 1970s to the effects of drought, in order to show the lessons of the crisis and how they could be translated into medium-term action.

Nestled amidst rolling hills, Shillong, the Himalayan capital city of Meghalaya in India's northeast, faces a growing challenge of water scarcity.

This book discusses integral groundwater management with scale flow issues and presents methods for defining, preventing, controlling, and mitigating negative environmental impacts related to groundwater.

Groundwater is integral to many human and environmental systems but there are significant challenges in dealing with the impact of anthropogenic activities on groundwater systems.

In the Asia and Pacific region, accessing clean water and sanitation is a constant challenge for residents of informal settlements.

Water resource management consists of planning, developing, distributing and managing the available water resources.

Water resource management consists of planning, developing, distributing and managing the available water resources.

Billions of people globally live under conditions of water stress and water shortage, or with contaminated water sources.

Billions of people globally live under conditions of water stress and water shortage, or with contaminated water sources.

Originally published in 1992, this book dispels some of the myths that surround water resource problems of arid lands and the notion that there are simple 'once and for all' solutions.

Originally published in 1992, this book dispels some of the myths that surround water resource problems of arid lands and the notion that there are simple 'once and for all' solutions.

Es geht einerseits um das Artensterben und hier sind nicht nur die Tiere - Insekten wie Bienen, Hummeln, Wespen, Schwebfliegen gemeint, die für eine Bestäubung unserer Pflanzen sorgen, sondern auch die Spezies Mensch!

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west.

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west.

Wir befinden uns im Jahr 2050.

Las temáticas relacionadas con el agua y el ambiente están integradas y en cada reunión que congrega a expertos y académicos se obtienen nuevas formas de análisis y propuestas variadas para el planteamiento de posibles soluciones en la gestión del recurso hídrico.

El enfoque de la gestion comunitaria del agua en el Ecuador es un tema de vital importancia.

A contracorriente: agua y conflicto en América Latina, es el resultado de un diálogo abierto entre académicos y activistas interesados en pensar y resistir la violencia e injusticia inherente en los conflictos de agua en América Latina.

El agua fluyey a su paso siembra vida.

La conservación, acceso, distribución, uso y disposición final del agua son preocupaciones constantes, especialmente en zonas rurales donde las comunidades indígenas y campesinas han implementado formas propias de gestión y manejo.

Esta obra, de una manera extraordinaria e inspiradora, nos revela las intimas conexiones entre el agua, los megaproyectos y las relaciones de poder en la costa ecuatoriana.

For integrated water resources management both blue and green water resources in a river basin and their spatial and temporal distribution have to be considered.

For integrated water resources management both blue and green water resources in a river basin and their spatial and temporal distribution have to be considered.

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal.

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal.

En este libro se han incluido los temas clásicos relacionados con la contaminación domestica e industrial, pero adicionalmente se agregaron otros tópicos que incluyen trazas y contaminantes emergentes de mucha actualidad, pues su presencia en los ecosistemas naturales empieza a ser una preocupación para los especialistas y las autoridades ambientales.

In addition to senior scientists, who have summarised their main results in the five volumes of the Future Megacities Book Series, ambitious young researchers have also contributed substantially to the German research programme on sustainable development of future megacities.

Este libro fue escrito en el marco de las preocupaciones actuales por el diseño de herramientas teóricas, conceptuales y metodológicas para la comprensión y gestión de cuencas hidrográficas desde una perspectiva integral que articule las dinámicas hidro-biofísicas y sociales a escala de paisaje desde un enfoque ecosistémico.

Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere.

Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere.

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

The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams.

This book explores the potential for public banks to help finance the expansion, democratization, and sustainability of public water services in Europe, with implications for public water financing elsewhere in the world.

This book explores the potential for public banks to help finance the expansion, democratization, and sustainability of public water services in Europe, with implications for public water financing elsewhere in the world.

Este sistema individual para el tratamiento de las aguas residualesproducidas por las familias que habitan en zonas residenciales pocopobladas, en ciudades donde no existe acceso a otros sistemascolectivos de tratamiento, también se utiliza para el tratamiento deefluentes provenientes de instituciones como escuelas y hospitales depequeñas comunidades.

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.