water security management Articles
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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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WaterWealth? Investing in Basin Management in Asia and the Pacific
This publication highlights how people work together in Asia and the Pacific to secure water for all through innovative approaches in basins. Drawing on a cross-section of 43 case studies prepared specially for this publication, WaterWealth explains the challenges to improving water governance and management across Asia and the Pacific region. It illustrates many examples of new approaches and ...
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Economic regulation of the water supply industry in the UK: a game theoretic consideration of the implications for responding to drought risk
Droughts have tested the water supply companies in UK over the past decade. This paper employs game theoretic modelling to test hypotheses regarding the implications of price cap regulation for resource and supply security. We present an empirical analysis of drought management by ten water companies in UK as a basis for formulating formal games. These games are estimated. The game between the ...
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Changing behavior as a policy tool for enhancing food security
Recent developments in international markets point to a dramatic food crisis all over the world. The media today is repeatedly dominated by staggering reports on the global food crisis, soaring crop prices and demands for bio-fuels, raising fears of political instability. Since 2002, media reports have mostly highlighted the dramatic situation of food insecurity. The Arab region is most seriously ...
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Working towards sustainable urban water management: the vulnerability blind spot
The unprecedented water scarcity in Australia coincides with the adoption of a new urban water rhetoric. The ‘Security through Diversity’ strategy has been adopted in a number of Australian cities as a new and innovative approach to urban water management. Although this strategy offers a more holistic approach to urban water management, in practice, the Security through Diversity strategy is ...
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The role of ethics in water and food security: balancing utilitarian and intangible values
In the past two decades, the world has experienced deep changes in terms of globalization of goods and people, the emergence of new economic powers, political turmoil, and a sustained growth of an increasingly urban global population. These and other factors have deep implications for global water and food security, and make discussion of ethical values – often implicit in global debates – more ...
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Integrated Rural Water Management in India
Integrated Rural Water Management will look to provide ecological security of water for both domestic and livelihood needs. There will be equitable access of water to all at affordable prices. The system will be maintained locally by the Village Water and Sanitation committee and there will be a legal framework in place for both water quantity and quality maintenance. Sanitation and health will ...
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Water park security operations management from HAISAN water slide company
First, Construction of the security system from HAISAN water slide company 1. Develop a safety management system; 2. Signing a safety responsibility letter; 3. Integrate safety into the performance appraisal system; 4. Establish a safety reward and punishment system; Second, the development of security awareness 1. All staff safety awareness training; 2. Conduct safety awareness guidance for ...
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Toward an innovative interdisciplinary method for vulnerability assessments: the case of Taiwan
Humans live in complicated social-ecological systems within which we interact with our surrounding environment. This interaction is of concern to various disciplines, which focus on various system elements (factors), many of which are mutually interacting. Assessments of vulnerability to climate change assist us in realizing the magnitude of the impact of various climate change factors, ...
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Is community water management the community’s choice? Implications for water and development policy in Africa
The global drive for universal drinking water security has faltered in rural Africa. Community management of handpumps, which provide water to over 200 million rural people, is the prevailing but increasingly embattled policy choice. A choice experiment is designed to test alternative maintenance models across competing attributes of maintenance provider, maintenance level, payment mode, and ...
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S2N Smart Buoy in Real Life Environment
We are proud to announce that our S2N Smart Buoy has reached its adulthood and come to a Very Important Milestone: it has started its operation on an open, natural water body, under real-life conditions. S2N Smart Buoy is designed to monitor water quality of any surface water, aquaculture, fish pond or fish farm, providing realtime information on their physical and chemical parameters. Should it ...
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Paradigms for water allocation in river basins: a society-science-practice perspective from Southern Africa
This paper seeks to complement ongoing discussions around water allocation by offering an analytic framework for examining the evolution of paradigms for water allocation in river basins. It traces this evolution from the hydraulic paradigm through to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the current water security paradigm. Using a society-science-practice interaction perspective, ...
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Inter-annual variations of Poyang Lake area during dry seasons: characteristics and implications
Variations in a lake area constitute an important indicator of the modifications of the lake hydrology. This paper explores the inter-annual variations of the Poyang Lake area during the dry seasons occurring within the 1961 to 2010 period and further quantifies the severity of dryness recently endured during the 2000s. A physically based hydrodynamic model of Poyang Lake established the ...
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Pakistan Facing Deadly Water Contamination
Drought, overdraft of aquifers, and water contamination all contribute to an ever-increasing water crisis in Pakistan. 40% of deaths in country are attributed to critical pollution problem An estimated 40% of all deaths in Pakistan are caused by ingesting contaminated water — water filled with industrial waste, arsenic, diseases, and sewage. As recently as the late 1990s, ...
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Institutional capacity and policy options for integrated urban water management: a Singapore case study
Singapore is an exemplary model of integrated water management, according to the World Health Organization, and its experiences can be shared with others. Water security is not just the government's responsibility but has become everyone's business. Singapore has been selected as a case study for integrated urban water management (IUWM), and the methodologies used in Singapore, a developed city ...
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Computational fluid dynamics modeling of contaminant mixing at junctions for an online security management toolkit in water distribution networks
The accurate modeling and simulation of the spread of contaminants within water distribution networks (WDNs) is an important task for drinking water security. In commonly used water quality simulation platforms the mixing of concentrations at junctions is assumed to be a complete mixing behavior. Experimental investigations have shown that this assumption is only true for certain flow ...
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Energy implications of the millennium drought on urban water cycles in Southeast Australian cities
During the Millennium Drought in Australia, a wide range of supply-side and demand-side water management strategies were adopted in major southeast Australian cities. This study undertakes a time-series quantification (2001–2014) and comparative analysis of the energy use of the urban water supply systems and sewage systems in Melbourne and Sydney before, during and after the drought, and ...
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A decision support system for water supply emergency management with multiple sources
The construction of water transfer projects brings new challenges to water resources management, especially in water supply security with the use of multiple water sources. However, the operations of water diversion and water supply have been considered in separation in practice. In particular, there are few decision support systems (DSS) designed to tackle the challenges in emergency ...
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Security through diversity: moving from rhetoric to practice
In response to a range of contemporary urban water challenges, there is an increasingly urgent need to change the way water is used in our cities. In Australia, the ‘Security through Diversity’ policy has been introduced in a number of cities to help facilitate a shift towards sustainable urban water management. This qualitative case study research investigated the interpretation and ...
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A critical review of groundwater utilization and management in China's inland water shortage areas
Groundwater, as an important store of freshwater, plays a more critical role in sustaining the ecosystem and enhancing human adaptation to changing climate than surface water. In particular, it can store large volumes of water to naturally buffer the pressure of water shortage against seasonal changes in rainfall. However, groundwater itself is also vulnerable to climate change, showing a ...
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