water security management Articles
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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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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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India’s Watershed Development Boosts Food Security, Improves Livelihoods
India struggles with water scarcity, a problem that poses especially huge implications for the country’s food security and rural livelihoods. The country has long-battled its scarcity issues through Watershed Development, a participatory approach to improve water management through afforestation and reforestation, sustainable land management, soil and water conservation, water-harvesting ...
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Water Security Project
IWRA recognises ongoing global water security issues as a major challenge, and addresses them in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals in close collaboration with international organisations and key ...
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The six water technology trends for 2023, according to Idrica
Issues such as climate change and population growth will encourage the implementation of new technologies. Pre-emption and prevention, security, reuse, process automation, optimization and planning are the main technological challenges ahead for water management in 2023, according to Idrica. In 2025, around 3.5 billion people will be living in water-scarce areas, while water demand is set ...
By Idrica
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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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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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Water: At a Tipping Point
The Stockholm World Water Week’s focus on “Water for Development” comes at an opportune time. Water as a sector in world affairs is reaching a tipping point. Over the next two decades and more, the global push for food and energy security and for sustaining urbanization will place new and increasing demands on the water sector. Ours is a world of ‘thirsty ...
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