Drought and water supply

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.

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

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

The primary focus is to provide landholders, catchment groups, catchment and land protection boards, and rural communities with the best tools that science has so far developed for benchmarking and monitoring the condition of the land and water resources in the catchments.

Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies.

This book brings together extensive scientific learning on what makes a good farm for biodiversity.

Ecohydrology: Vegetation Function, Water and Resource Management describes and provides a synthesis of the different disciplines required to understand the sustainable management of water in the environment in order to tackle issues such as dryland salinity and environmental water allocation.

Comprehensive coverage of understanding, prevention, and risk management of extreme drought events, with examples of approaches followed in water-stressed regions This book describes the progress made in our understanding of severe drought and explains how we can deal with and even avoid complete devastation brought on by such punishing events.

The book provides an analysis of impacts of climate change on water for agriculture, and the adaptation strategies in water management to deal with these impacts.

This book uses ecosystem services-based approaches to address major global and regional water challenges, for researchers, students, and policy makers.

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.

Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan.

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.

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

The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not.

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

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

This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management.

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?

In the 21st Century, the world will see an unprecedented migration of people moving from rural to urban areas.

Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts.

Floodplain wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin provide critical habitat for numerous species of flora and fauna, yet the ecology of these wetlands is threatened by a range of environmental issues.

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

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

Provides the tools that allow companies to understand the fundamental concepts of water resource management and to take proper action towards sustainable development Businesses, communities, and ecosystems everywhere depend on clean freshwater to survive and prosper.

Healthy waterways and oceans are essential for our increasingly urbanised world.

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water.

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

Water is critical to all human activities, but access to this crucial resource is increasingly limited by competition and the effects of climate change.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

This reference source on water efficiency in buildings provides comprehensive and up-to-date information.

Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia.

A comprehensive synthesis of the best practices for management in the vital and rapidly growing field of sustainable water systems Handbook of Knowledge Management for Sustainable Water Systems offers an authoritative resource that goes beyond the current literature to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the topic.

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

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

Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory--one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe.

Australia's Water Resources seeks to explore the circumstances underpinning the profound reorientation of attitudes and relationships to water that has taken place in Australia in recent decades.

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water.

The definitive guide to water-efficient gardening, helping you to grow healthy, resilient plants in the face of climate change.

When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state and reorienting economies toward market-led policymaking.

Freshwater macroinvertebrates provide a useful and reliable indicator of the health of our rivers, streams, ponds and wetlands.

The groundbreaking new concept that reveals the true and hazardous extent of our everyday water consumption.