water management Articles
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Integrated Water Management in Senegal
This past June the Wetlands International Supervisory Council met for the first time in Senegal where they made field visits to a number of sites, including the Ndiael Special Avifauna Reserve. The Ndiael area, a complex wetland of great value in the Sahelian zone of Africa, has over the last decades been degraded due to the diversion of water supplies upstream. The reduced water flows and ...
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GWP ToolBox
The ToolBox is a free and open database with a library of case studies and references that can be used by anyone who is interested in implementing better approaches for the management of water or learning more about improving water management on a local, national, regional or global level. The ToolBox is also an excellent tool for you to ...
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Interoperability: the key for smart water management
The integration of water processes with information and communication technologies systems offers huge opportunities in terms of efficiency gains, improved security, and overall sustainability. However, as this new field of water management – often denoted as ‘Smart Water Network’ (SWN) – is evolving, there are many different vendors, technologies and business models ...
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Applied Water Research (STOWA) in the Netherlands
STOWA (Acronym for Foundation for Applied Water Research) is the knowledge centre of the regional water managers (mostly the Water Boards) in the Netherlands. Its mission is to develop, collect, distribute and implement applied knowledge, which the water managers need in order to adequately carry out the tasks that their work supports. This expertise can cover applied technical, scientific, ...
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Studies on Water Management Issues
This book shares knowledge gained through water management related research. It describes a broad range of approaches and technologies, of which have been developed and used by researchers for managing water resource problems. This multidisciplinary book covers water management issues under surface water management, groundwater management, water quality management, and water resource planning ...
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Water governance and the importance of dynamic and adaptive management approaches
Water governance is about developing and implementing effective and legitimate adaptive water and climate measurements in the larger whole of spatial and regional development. Water issues transcend domains (such as agriculture or recreation) and scales (such as municipal and county boundaries). They need collaboration, sharing, meeting and connecting. Realising coherence in water management ...
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Istanbul World Water Forum's Ministerial Statement (2009): a positive shift of global water policy recommendations towards sustainability
The scopes of the Fifth World Water Forum's Ministerial Statement (Istanbul, 2009) are being analysed in the context of globally accepted water management principles. Particular reflection is done to two previous declarations related on global water policy, i.e. Chapter 18 of the Agenda 21 (1992) and Fourth World Water Forum's Ministerial Declaration (Mexico, 2006). Nine water management ...
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The transition in Dutch water management
Abstract Over the past decades, the Dutch people have been confronted with severe water-related problems, which are the result of an unsustainable water system, arising from human interventions in the physical infrastructure of the water system and the water management style. The claims of housing, industry, infrastructure and agriculture have resulted in increasing pressure on the water system. ...
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Effective Water Governance (GWP, 2003)
This paper presents a coherent discussion of water governance, and show how it relates to water managment and development. It is aimed at water professionals who need to be familiar with issues of governance as they strive to work outside the water sector. Continue reading the full ...
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Water, For All, Forever: Managing Water Locally
In November 2011, the joint publication by Oxfam, WaterAid and the Institute of Civil Engineers entitled ‘Managing Water Locally: An important dimension of community water management,’ was launched at the ICE in London. As a follow- up to the London Launch Newcastle University have organised a workshop on local level solutions to water security - 'Water, For All, Forever: Managing ...
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Best Practice Water Management in Wineries
In the past, wineries have had the reputation of using large amounts of water, with an estimated ratio of 20 litres of water being needed to make one litre of wine. But that was the past. Today, leading wineries are able to produce a litre of wine using only two litres of water. Leading practitioners in the wine industry have shown over the last decade that there are many opportunities to use ...
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City Blueprints: baseline assessment for water management in 11 cities of the future
The City Blueprint approach has been developed at KWR Watercycle Research Institute. The present paper addresses the baseline assessments of 11 cities with the aim (1) to explain why the focus needs to be in cities in solving the global water governance crisis, (2) to demonstrate, refine and discuss the assessment approach. Furthermore (3) the Blue City Index (BCI), the arithmetic mean of the 24 ...
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Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable Highlighted in Pacific Institute Sustainability Synthesis Report
A new synthesis report, interactive tool, and special collection (Incentive-Based Instruments for Water Management) from the Pacific Institute and the Foundation Center features the involvement of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) in the vital topic of Incentive-Based Instruments for Water Management. BIER’s decision support tool, part of its Performance in Watershed ...
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Water disputes in the Ecuadorian context up to the Third Millennium: no State, no market, no common property. The transition of Santa Rosa (Tungurahua province)
In the Ecuadorian Andes, irrigation depends mainly on private or community-based water management. In 1972, the State started taking over water administration by nationalising water and granting concessions to users' communities. In the beginning, the State did useful work by modernising the water rights system, but because of inter-community conflicts, local concessions were split up and ...
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To the last drop: the political economy of Philippine water policy
This paper examines the conflicts arising from the layered legal treatment, fragmentation and multiplicity of institutions involved in Philippine water governance. Using a thematic analysis of national legislation, a survey of 299 water managers in 10 provinces, and five cases illustrating local contestations, the paper tracks the diversification of formal institutional stakeholders which ...
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Developing a framework for supporting the implementation of integrated water resource management (IWRM) with a decoupling strategy
The rise of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in the global water policy discourse marks a fundamental shift in water management from the techno-centric, top-down, supply-oriented and sectoral approach towards a holistic, participatory and demand-driven approach to sustainable water management. The IWRM concept has become dominant, permeating national, regional and international ...
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Most Endangered Rivers - U.S.
America’s Most Endangered Rivers report is one of the most effective tools in the environmental movement for publicizing threats to rivers and galvanizing the public to take action. The 2013 report highlights a number of key threats, and shines the spotlight on rivers running dry because of outdated water management, wasteful water use, and persistent drought. Continue reading the full ...
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Inadequacy of positivistic research to explain complexity of water management
The paper looks at alternative scientific research approaches and traditions related to Water Resources Management (WRM) and Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) services. How can they explain the problem-oriented water governance challenges, and how do they apply to multi- and inter-disciplinary research? It is argued that the bias in favour of a positivistic approach and natural sciences in water ...
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9. Reflections and Lessons: Contextual Water Management
Being a delta country, the Netherlands has understandable concerns regarding the increasing frequency of high and low water situations as a result of climate change. This has warranted a drastic change of approach to water, land and nature management through a strategy that uses nature‘s resilience to provide for both human and natural environmental needs. The subject of our study ...
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Enabling sustainable urban water management through governance experimentation
A shift towards sustainable urban water management is widely advocated but poorly understood. There is a growing body of literature claiming that social learning is of high importance in restructuring conventional systems. In particular, governance experimentation, which explicitly aims for social learning, has been suggested as an approach for enabling the translation of sustainability ideas ...
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