water resource conservation Articles
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Environmentally sustainable WASH? Current discourse, planetary boundaries and future directions
The significant challenge of achieving safe, reliable and continuous service delivery has been a focus of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in recent years, with less attention given to other important sustainability considerations such as environmental sustainability. The agenda set by the Sustainable Development Goals prompts a wider lens, bringing water resource management ...
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Freshwater quality — SOER 2010 thematic assessment
Water is critical for life and is integral to virtually all economic activities, including food and industrial production. Not only is clean water a prerequisite for human health and well-being, it provides for aquatic habitats that support healthy freshwater ecosystems. A range of pollutants including nutrients, biocides, pathogenic micro-organisms, industrial and household chemicals, metals and ...
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The Development of Water Quality Detectors and Their Impact on Water Resource Management
Abstract:Water quality is a valuable natural resource and is vital to human survival and development. However, with the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, as well as the continuous growth of population, water resources are polluted to different degrees, which seriously threatens the sustainable development of human health and ecological environment. Therefore, the protection ...
By JXCT
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Top 3 Benefits of Recycling Wastewater
Recycling wastewater can save money and help the environment Historically, water recycling has been restrained because of seemingly limitless surface and groundwater resources as well as psychological factors. However, now that all sectors are confronting hard limits on traditional sources, water recycling is getting a second look, and many have concluded that water recycling is a no-brainer. ...
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An updated response to EEI’s timeline of environmental regulations
This fact sheet updates the analysis done in our earlier response to EEI’s timeline of environmental regulations. EPA remains on track in issuing rules that provide a path to a cleaner power fleet. After years of delay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to reduce dangerous and toxic pollutants released to the air and water by electric power plants, as required by ...
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How Does Recycling Reduce Air Pollution
Recycling has a profound impact on reducing pollution levels. Using recycled materials instead of raw, new resources, we diminish the harmful emissions of extraction and manufacturing. For example, the mining and refining aluminium from bauxite ore is highly energy-intensive and results in significant greenhouse gas emissions. In contrast, recycling aluminium requires only 5% of the energy ...
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Environmental Situation in Africa
Abstract Africa The economic and social needs of Africa depends more on its environmental resources but these natural resources are seriously declining and that is really effecting the entire region. Sustainable development in this rapidly changing region has become an imperative, and must take place in the complex context of a diverse and changing ecosystem, political transition and evolution ...
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How innovation is flourishing at the grassroots
SciDev.Net reporters across the developing world describe exciting initiatives aimed at supporting innovation in local communities and remote areas. From small-scale hydro-powered electricity in Malaysia to cost-saving solar pumps in Pakistan, communities across the developing world are devising ingenious solutions to improve their livelihoods and promote sustainable development. They face many ...
By SciDev.Net
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