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Water security

2021
Abstract Today, the concept of security manifests itself in a number of forms in most scientific, social, environmental, and political issues. One of the most essential and prominent types of security issue faced today is water security, which has introduced a complex and new concept to the literature of today's world.
Sahar Baghban   +2 more
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Water and Security

2021
The connections between a clean and accessible water supply for consumption and sanitation is a relatively new field of research. Prior to this recognition, scholars and policy analysts associated security with the protection of a nation’s borders and populations. Security implied a nation’s safety in military and diplomatic terms.
David A. Pietz, Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
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Water (in)security: securing the right to water

The Geographical Journal, 2014
This paper rereads debates over water security and insecurity through the tools of critical geographical scholarship. It seeks to demonstrate the value of such a critical perspective in achieving access to water for all. While rejecting a simplistic dismissal of mainstream discourses on water security, the paper notes the failure to adequately ...
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Water Security or Security of Water? A Conceptual Analysis

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2011
The present article tries to understand the concept of water security. What is the threshold beyond which water qualifies to be a security issue? Do our security concerns emanate from the conflictual interests emanating from demand and supply, riparian rights of the intra- or inter-state actors or the ownership of the resource? Does the resource study
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Water and Water Security

2018
Today, there are many studies about the problems that may be faced in the context of World Water Day. In this chapter, the structure, pollution, quality grading, and human health effects of water; possible pollution prevention measures; and water safety are discussed.
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Water Security

2015
In the post–Cold War era, the concept of water security referred to the potential dangers of conflict over water resources and safety of drinking water infrastructure from attacks by military enemies or terrorists. By the 1990s, water security increasingly became discussed together with human security and such concerns as economic security ...
Farhad Mukhtarov, Aleh Cherp
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Security of Water Infrastructure Systems

2009
This paper formulates the security problem in critical water infrastructure systems for diagnosing quality faults. The proposed scheme is based on the discretized equations of advection and reaction of contaminant concentrations in pipes and tanks, expressed in a state-space form.
Eliades, D. G.   +3 more
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Water and Securities

Financial Analysts Journal, 1957
IN RECENT MONTHS, newspapers and magazines have headlined the problem of an adequate supply of usable water. The five year drought in the Southwest, and now the floods, have been the motivating reason for the avid attention to a difficulty that has been becoming progressively more serious, and in a relatively few years, may turn out to be a desperate ...
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On Water Security

2020
Water is crucial for environment and ecosystem services, human survival, productive activities and cultural services.
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Water Security, Food Security and the National Water Dependency

2018
Water requirements for food demand in Tunisia have more than tripled over the past four decades, and amount to more than 16 km3 in 2010. As the population has nearly doubled during the same period, water requirements for individual dietary recorded an increase from about 1050 m3/year/capita in the early 1970s to nearly 1600 m3/year/capita in the late ...
Mustapha Besbes   +2 more
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