Drought and water supply

With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story.

POLLUTANTS AND WATER MANAGEMENT Pollutants and Water Management: Resources, Strategies and Scarcity delivers a balanced and comprehensive look at recent trends in the management of polluted water resources.

A new approach to water-resources for researchers, professionals and graduate students, focusing on global sustainability and socio-ecological resilience to change.

In Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation.

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.

An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.

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

Ensuring safe and plentiful supplies of potable water (both now and for future generations) and developing sustainable treatment processes for wastewater are among the world s greatest engineering challenges.

The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes is a comprehensive volume that investigates the changes in the terrestrial water cycle and the natural and anthropogenic factors that cause these changes.

As flooding, drought and water scarcity become more pronounced due to climate change, so the way in which these events are presented in the media assumes greater significance.

Compares ancient Southwest Arabia with the American West to illustrate revealing similarities and contrasts surrounding water usage.

Arsenic is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic elements in the environment.

In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V.

In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.

This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr.

A comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks to water security for students, researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and management professionals.

Oil spills can be difficult to manage, with reporting frequently delayed.

Water is life.

Water management is a key environmental issue in controlling of floods and reducing droughts.

Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development.

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

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?

Ensuring safe and plentiful supplies of potable water (both now and for future generations) and developing sustainable treatment processes for wastewater are among the world s greatest engineering challenges.

Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water.

In the last decade, water resources planners have frequently signalled an impending water crisis.

A complete guide to the management and restoration of water in karst environmentsWritten by the co-chair of the Karst Commission of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, this book addresses the unique challenges related to the characterization, management, and protection of karst aquifers, which are present on all continents and numerous oceanic islands.

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

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

Drought is a slow-onset disaster.

Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components.

Water is the key to human civilization.

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

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

Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant.

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

This book provides a critical evaluation of the theory and assumptions that underlie methods for estimating rates of groundwater recharge.

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.

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.

Water is scarce in the Lake Eyre Basin in the heart of Australia.

An examination of the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

Achieving high water use efficiency in maintaining turf, trees and landscape areas is a core responsibility of open space managers.

The quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change on water availability and water resources management requires knowledge of climate, hydro(geo)logical and water resources models, and particularly the relationships between each of them.

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

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