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2019
This chapter examines California's water management projects, which represent an important exception to its leadership in the area of environmental protection. California's approach to water management is distinctive from its other environmental policies in three important respects.
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This chapter examines California's water management projects, which represent an important exception to its leadership in the area of environmental protection. California's approach to water management is distinctive from its other environmental policies in three important respects.
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1998
Water management involves a plethora of issues—water supply, water treatment, water distribution, wastewater collection and processing, flood control, navigation, hydropower production, aquatic recreation—which interact with each other and with government policies.
Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
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Water management involves a plethora of issues—water supply, water treatment, water distribution, wastewater collection and processing, flood control, navigation, hydropower production, aquatic recreation—which interact with each other and with government policies.
Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
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Water Resources Management and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Cameroon
Water Resources Management, 2009Cameroon is blessed with abundant water resources. Rapid population increase, unplanned urbanisation, intensive industrial and socio-economic development have led to poor and unsustainable management of these resources. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a promising approach in ensuring sustainable management of Cameroon’s water resources.
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2014
This chapter explores grassroots interventions by forging partnerships with stakeholders in improving the management of water resources at the community level. In order to gain insight into the nuances of managing water resources in partnership, a pilot study was instituted in the State of Rajasthan, India.
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This chapter explores grassroots interventions by forging partnerships with stakeholders in improving the management of water resources at the community level. In order to gain insight into the nuances of managing water resources in partnership, a pilot study was instituted in the State of Rajasthan, India.
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Integrated Water Resources Management
2016Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has become a globally recognized approach to water governance. However, the definition of IWRM remains abstract, and implementation challenges remain. This chapter analyzes IWRM from the perspective of adaptive governance, which conceptualizes IWRM as an institutional arrangement that seeks to solve ...
Mark Lubell, Carolina Balazs
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2010
Together with energy, water is one of the major fuels of economic development. A development plan, especially in a water-short area, such as an arid zone belt, or a flat area underlain by hard rocks without major surface streams, cannot be drawn unless a clear idea of water availability and costs has been reached.
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Together with energy, water is one of the major fuels of economic development. A development plan, especially in a water-short area, such as an arid zone belt, or a flat area underlain by hard rocks without major surface streams, cannot be drawn unless a clear idea of water availability and costs has been reached.
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Water Resources and Water Management
1994Water is an extremely complex resource. It is closely involved in a number of basic natural constraints to societal development (soil productivity, industrial production, energy resources, health promotion, etc.), and is active in generating side effects of human intervention in natural systems by its mobility and erosive and chemical properties.
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