increasing water scarcity Articles
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America`s Water Risk: Water Stress and Climate Variability
The emerging awareness of the dependence of business on water has resulted in increasing awareness of the concept of “Water Risk” and the diverse ways in which water can pose threats to businesses in certain regions and sectors. Businesses seek to secure sustainable income. To do so, they need to maintain a competitive advantage and brand differentiation. They need secure and stable ...
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Evaluating water scarcity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region by using a climate moisture index (CMI) indicator
Increasing water scarcity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has underscored the need to improve our understanding of the management of water resources. Using total evapotranspiration (TET) and precipitation (P) data of the past 16 years this study used a modified version of the climate moisture index (CMI) in order to evaluate water scarcity throughout the SADC region, ...
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Climate Change-Induced Water Scarcity: A Threat to Human Health
Climate change might affect the development of water scarcity least in some areas of the world. Water scarcity means not only the availability but also the quality of water and sanitation. Climate change might reduce the capacity of the state to provide health care to the population. Thereby, climate change has direct and indirect impacts on human security and hence health effects may result from ...
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Allocation discourses: South African water rights reform
Perceptions of increasing water scarcity have caused many countries to reform their water legislation. South Africa, in the vanguard of reform efforts, passed the National Water Act in 1998. The Act was lauded as a progressive piece of policy as it posited the redress of past injustices as one of its overarching aims. But there has been little progress in terms of redistribution of water use ...
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A methodology for quantifying global consumptive water use of coffee for sustainable production under conditions of climate change
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil. A sustainable coffee industry is crucial to maintaining global agriculture, trade, human and environmental well-being, and livelihoods. With increasing water scarcity and a changing climate, understanding and quantifying the risks associated with water, a primary input in coffee production, is vital. This methodological paper ...
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Developers Build Water Reuse into Commercial Real Estate
Recycling water is becoming more practical as technology improves and governments provide incentives Industry has already discovered the value of water reuse for managing water costs, ensuring water supplies, and demonstrating a corporate commitment to sustainability. Now, commercial real estate developers are increasingly reaping the same benefits in their office buildings. Reuse systems in ...
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As the demand for water rises, we need to re-think global water storage
As Europe swelters in unprecedented summer heat, water stress is a major and growing concern. The same is true for many places across the globe. The need for more water storage is obvious but simply building more dams is not the solution. Growing populations and economic development are driving the need for more water storage globally. Climate change – modified rainfall patterns, increased ...
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Navigating Tomorrow’s Waters: LG Sonic’s Solutions for the Future of Water Management
Many regions worldwide are facing increasing water scarcity due to factors like population growth, climate change, and over-exploitation of freshwater resources. Ensuring the quantity and quality of available water sources is vital for public health. Pollution from industrial, agricultural, and urban sources can contaminate water, making it unsafe for consumption and harming ecosystems. The ...
By LG Sonic
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Geographic information systems, key to efficient water management
The supply of drinking water is one of the greatest challenges currently facing a large part of the world’s regions. According to the latest data published by the UN, water losses in water distribution networks are a major concern, with Non-Revenue Water or non-billed water accounting for the supply of water to almost 200 million people. Digital transformation plays a major role in solving ...
By Idrica
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Strategic Planning for Water Loss Reduction with Imprecise Data
Water utilities particularly in the developing countries continue to operate with considerable inefficiencies in terms of water and revenue losses. With increasing water demand and scarcity, utilities require effective strategies for optimum use of available water resources. Often the information needed for strategic planning is inadequate and decisions have to be made on the basis of limited and ...
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Five ingredients for developing a sustainable supply chain
Developing a sustainable supply chains is one of the major challenges for food and beverage companies and is still in its infancy. Responsibility for sustainability is clearly identified at board level and is now embedded throughout their organisations. However, developing a sustainable supply chain is more complicated to address, particularly if the number of suppliers is large and ...
By Vital Energi
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Global Monthly Water Scarcity: Blue Water Footprints versus Blue Water Availability
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicators used to characterize and map water scarcity worldwide. We improve upon past efforts by using estimates of blue water footprints (consumptive use of ground- and surface water flows) rather than water withdrawals, accounting for the flows needed to sustain critical ecological functions and by ...
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Constructed wetlands for wastewater reuse in agriculture
Deteriorating quality and increasing scarcity of water in Iraq demands a rethink in the way wastewater is managed. We show here that a constructed wetland can assist an existing sewage treatment plan not only to be lower than actual Iraqi effluent standards, but to also meet water quality criteria for reuse in agricultural production. Scarcity is one of several challenges to the Iraqi waters. ...
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Down-scaling pan-European water scenarios to local visions in the Mediterranean: the Candelaro Basin case study in Italy
In the Mediterranean, the increasing social impacts of water scarcity are growing, but effective measures to manage such scarcity are difficult to implement due to the variability of stakeholders and the weak means to handle new policies. To ameliorate the future of water management in the region, communication between stakeholders has to be improved. The Water Framework Directive (WFD 2000) ...
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What is Industrial Water Reuse & Why Is It Important?
Pressure on water resources not only in the USA but across the world are leading to increasing water scarcity concerns among companies and communities alike that are competing for suitable quantities of water. From the US west coast to Africa and Asia, water scarcity has become the primary driver for water reuse initiatives alongside desalination strategies. Water professionals in these water ...
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Water: a critical component of any sustainability strategy
Reducing water use is becoming an increasingly important sustainability metric for business. Viewpoint by Michael Gifford, Head of Operations & Delivery Partners, Carbon Trust Certification, and Morgan Jones, Standard Certification Manager, Carbon Trust Certification. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has just announced that it will set targets for its contractors to reduce water consumption ...
By Carbon Trust
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Bridges over troubled waters in Central Asia?
It’s thanks to Tajikistan that it’s the UN International Year of Water Cooperation. Through a string of events, the world’s attention is focused on the water crisis and the urgent need for humanity to tackle it through improved cooperation – between nation states, across and between sectors, industry, government and civil society. Water Challenges for Central Asia ...
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Navigating the Future: The role of data in water resources management
Water is essential for life, and taking care of it requires us to understand and manage it wisely. In today's world of increasing water scarcity which can be attributed to climate change, population growth, and increasing water demand, data is more crucial than ever for effective water resources management. Different disciplines of water resources management, such as flood risk assessment, ...
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California Prepares for a Drought-Prone Future Under Stringent Title 22 Water Reuse Standards
Fluence’s first MABR plant in mainland U.S. gives California new medium- and small-scale treatment options that comply with the state’s stringent standards for water reuse Water recycling, which sometimes is referred to by the unfortunate description “toilet-to-tap,” is becoming more and more important in a world facing increasing water scarcity. But the United States ...
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Taking advantage of stormwater, a plentiful, free resource
As the saying goes, when it rains, it pours. Rain and snow and other types of precipitation are a resource more organizations would be wise to take advantage of as water scarcity increases around the globe. Stormwater, precipitation that isn’t absorbed into the ground, is a freely available resource, but is there enough of it to make a difference? The amount of runoff varies from storm to ...
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