Long-distance Water Transfer
Author | : Asit K. Biswas |
Publisher | : Tycooly Publishing U. S. A. |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Asit K. Biswas |
Publisher | : Tycooly Publishing U. S. A. |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fereidoun Ghassemi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 2007-01-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1139463047 |
Using the experiences of large water infrastructure projects involving the transfer of water from basins considered to have surplus water to those where the demand for water has exceeded or is expected to exceed supplies, this book examines case studies within diverse geographical, climatic, economic, and policy regimes.
Author | : Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309181194 |
In December 2002, a group of specialists on water resources from the United States and Iran met in Tunis, Tunisia, for an interacademy workshop on water resources management, conservation, and recycling. This was the fourth interacademy workshop on a variety of topics held in 2002, the first year of such workshops. Tunis was selected as the location for the workshop because the Tunisian experience in addressing water conservation issues was of interest to the participants from both the United States and Iran. This report includes the agenda for the workshop, all of the papers that were presented, and the list of site visits.
Author | : Upali A. Amarasinghe |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : River engineering |
ISBN | : 9290906944 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1140 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Hydrology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Georg Anagnostou |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2013-05-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1315887274 |
Underground the way to the future was the motto of the World Tunnel Congress 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. The use of underground space has gained importance during the last years due to the tremendous global urbanization, the high demand on transportation capacities and energy production. All this result in a wider range of use of underground spa
Author | : Bryan Randolph Bruns |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0896297497 |
"Rights to water are increasingly crucial and increasingly contested across theglobe. Urbanization, industrialization, environmental degradation, agriculturalintensification, rising per capita water use, increasing population, andother social, political, and economic transformations contribute to growing scarcity and demand for better management of water resources. In responding to these challenges, the world can draw on a rich heritage of institutions for regulating rights to water and resolving disputes, and a diversity of institutional arrangements that demonstrate great ingenuity in designing solutions to fit the conditions and priorities of various river basins. However, policy discussion in water management has often been impoverished by narrow polarization around a few idealized models of centrally integrated management or water commoditization, even though these comprise only a small and very incomplete subset of the institutional options available for effective management. The authors in this book expand the range of reflection and analysis of water rights reforms, offering insights aimed especially at those seeking practical pathways to improve equity, efficiency, and sustainability in access to water."
Author | : Stephen C. McCaffrey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191056723 |
The Law of International Watercourses is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater. The continued growth of the world's population places increasing demands on Earth's finite supplies of fresh water. Because two or more States share many of the world's most important drainage basins - including the Danube, the Ganges, the Indus, the Jordan, the Mekong, the Nile, the Rhine and the Tigris-Euphrates - competition for increasingly scarce fresh water resources will only increase. Agreements between the States sharing international watercourses are negotiated, and disputes over shared water are resolved, against the backdrop of the rules of international law governing the use of this precious resource. The basic legal rules governing the use of shared freshwater for purposes other than navigation are reflected in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. This book devotes a chapter to the 1997 Convention but also examines the factual and legal context in which the Convention should be understood, considers the more important rules of the Convention in some depth, and discusses specific issues that could not be addressed in a framework instrument of that kind. The book reviews the major cases and controversies concerning international watercourses as a background against which to consider the basic substantive and procedural rights and obligations of States in the field. The third edition covers the implications of the 1997 Convention coming into force in August 2014, and the compatibility of the 1997 and 1992 Conventions. This edition also updates the entire book, adds new material to many of the chapters, and adds a number of new case studies, including Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) and Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), amongst others.
Author | : Ashok Swain |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1135768838 |
Water scarcity and the use of international river system resources can not only cause international conflict but can also bring about peace and co-operation. This book looks at the current stresses and likely future scenarios.
Author | : Linda Fernandez |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2005-12-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0306479613 |
The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations. Our border communities are often a line of first defense -- absorbing the complex economic, environmental and social impacts of globalization that ripple through the region. In many ways, our success or failure in finding solutions for the environmental, social and economic issues that plague the region may well define our ability to meet similar challenges thousands of miles from the border zone. Border residents face the environmental security concerns posed by water scarcity and transboundary air pollution; the planning and infrastructure needs of an exploding population; the debilitating effects of inadequate sanitary and health facilities; and the crippling cycle of widespread poverty. Yet, with its manifold problems, the border area remains an area of great dynamism and hope -- a multicultural laboratory of experimentation and grass-roots problem-solving. Indeed, as North America moves towards a more integrated economy, citizen action at the local level is pushing governments to adapt to the driving forces in the border area by creating new institutional arrangements and improving old ones. If there is one defining feature of this ground-up push for more responsive transboundary policies and institutions, it is a departure from the closed, formalistic models of the past to a more open, transparent and participatory model of international interaction.