water management Articles
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Water and the city: exploring links between urban growth and water demand management
Urban water management is currently understood as a socio-technical problem, including both technologies and engineering interventions as well as socioeconomic dimensions and contexts vis-à-vis both end users and institutions. In this framework, perhaps the most important driver of urban water demand, at the intersection between engineering, social and economic domains, is urban growth. ...
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Resolution of international water conflicts: from the US Southwest to the Euphrates River basin states
Environmental security models predict that natural resource scarcities, in particular freshwater, can increase the probability of conflict within and between countries. This is an especially critical problem on internationally shared rivers in the arid Middle East. Riparians in the arid US west have long relied on interstate water compacts to manage their interstate waters effectively and to ...
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First Nation capacity in Québec to practise integrated water resources management
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been identified by the United Nations as a critical component of effective and sustainable water resources management in the future. This research examined the extent to which IWRM is practised among First Nations (FN) in Canada. This study also developed and applied an analytical framework to assess the overall capacity of two FN communities in ...
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Five solutions to avoid a water sector human resources crisis
A year ago, world leaders handed down an ambitious agenda: 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be successfully completed by 2030. This new global framework puts water at the centre of sustainable development, and presents an unprecedented opportunity for a revolution in water management around the world. Never in human history have governments committed themselves to make such progress on ...
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Outsourcing Hotel Water Management
By outsourcing a hotel’s water management to a team of experts, hoteliers are free to concentrate on their core business Water scarcity is a growing problem worldwide, and hotels, which typically have very high water demands, are facing increased pressure to reduce their water consumption. According to the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, a hotel uses almost 400 gallons (1,500 L) of ...
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Urban water management and planning: urban sanitation policies and an emerging institutional structure
Brazilian urban politics for the last two decades have been marked by the emergence of organised sectors of civil society who progressively reclaimed their roles as subjects. Both society and state were substantially transformed in such process, and urban and environmental policies, sanitation included, based on citizens' participation are an important and visible outcome. Participatory ...
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Good Practices in Urban Water Management: Decoding Good Practices for a Successful Future
This report presents case studies on successful Asian water utilities. The case studies provide objective, accurate, and critical analyses of urban water management practices in eight Asian cities (Bangkok,Colombo,Jamshedpur,Kuala Lumpur,Manila,Phnom Penh, Shenzhen andSingapore) over a 10-year period. Continue reading the full ...
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Water management in mining industry
The mining industry heavily relies on water Preserving water quality and quantity in mining is critical for uninterrupted operations Sustainable water management in mining can be started by choosing sustainable solution in treating mine water All human activity depends on the availability of water. From basic survival to the most complex and innovative industries, it is a resource whose ...
By LG Sonic
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Water Management in Smart Cities
Water is at the epicenter of sustainable development and is vital to socio-economic growth, healthy ecosystems, energy and food production, as well as to the very survival of human beings. However, as the world’s population grows to a projected 8.5 billion by 2030, demand for water will increase significantly, intensifying the challenges of sustainable development. The world is becoming ...
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Water Management Services in the Caribbean
Fluence can provide reliable, expertly managed infrastructure with no upfront cost From Trinidad & Tobago to Jamaica, the Caribbean is a haven for vacationers from around the world. As a result, hotels and resorts use a lot of water, and infrastructure is frequently inadequate and outdated. Discharges of partially treated or untreated wastewater threaten the pristine waters and reef ...
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Is IWRM Ready to Cope with the Future Challenges?
Current Challenges for IWRM Water management has become increasingly complex over time, encompassing various environmental, economic and social dimensions. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is for a long time considered to be able to cope with this complexity. IWRM accounts for social, economic and environmental factors and integrates ...
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The Visual Guide to Troubleshooting Your Valves
It’s 2 a.m., and you’ve received an emergency call—one of your valves isn’t functioning properly. If you’re like most water management professionals, your first instinct is to call the factory for support—but sometimes that’s not the most efficient option. To help you quickly and easily solve your valve concerns, we’ve developed a fun ...
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The Economic Value of Moving Toward a More Water Secure World
Business has a critical role to play in applying its expertise and experience in developing, implementing and scaling-up, through partnerships, watershed focused solutions. Over the next 20 years, a broader focus on water management beyond the “fence-line” – outside the company – is needed by businesses to ensure the sustainable use of one of the world’s finite ...
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Researchers as actors in urban water governance? Perspectives on learning alliances as an innovative mechanism for change
Learning alliances (LA) are an innovative researcher–initiated intervention in urban water management. Their design implies that researchers actively engage with urban water management and governance issues. Researchers' views and their role in LA are considered alongside views from 'city stakeholders'. Findings from a series of interviews and observations conducted during the course of the ...
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In the image of the market: the Chilean model of water resources management
Chile's free-market Water Code turned 20 years old in October 2001. This anniversary was an important milestone for both Chilean and international debates about water policy, because Chile has become the world's leading example of the free-market approach to water law and economics and water resources management - the textbook case of treating water rights, not merely as private property, but ...
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Malta: Use of leakage control in water management strategy
The Maltese islands, like other parts of the Mediterranean area is an area of acute water shortage. Leakage control has been developed to become a strategically important component for water resource management, and has been used to reach an optimum economic balance between water supply and water demand. An understanding of the economics of leakage control, the target setting of leakage goals, ...
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Institutional arrangements for articulating land and water management in peri-urban catchment: example of the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, Brazil
The development of mega-cities exerts an increasing pressure on water resources in their peri-urban areas. Rapid changes in land use in these areas, characterised by the specific hydrologic functions they provide for the city, has resulted in increased pressures on water availability and quality. In the past, the traditional dual (urban/rural) focus of the institutions, their preference for ...
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Big Water needs 'little' people: improving water resource management by including households
Amid claims that the global water crisis is a management crisis, rather than a crisis of resource scarcity, ADB (2010) strongly indicates that contemporary water management institutions are failing to sustainably manage water resources. The burgeoning domestic sector offers a rich environment to examine some of the failings of institutional water resource management, with increasing ...
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Principles of international water law: creating effective transboundary water resources management
This article summarises the principles of international water law related to transboundary water resources management and analyses to what extent these principles are incorporated in recent international conventions and treaties. The study reveals that principle of equitable and reasonable utilisation, obligation not to cause significant harm, principles of cooperation, information exchange, ...
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Urban Water and Sanitation Services; An IWRM Approach (GWP 2006)
In this paper an attempt is made to consider IWRM approaches to urban water management in a broader way. While appropriate managment tools will be considered, attention is focussed on institutional design, decision-making scale, governance and the critical question of impledmentation practice. Continue reading the full ...
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