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The First Two Dry Years
The supply system dams exceeded storage capacity and spilt in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Thus for the first half of 2015, dam levels were no cause for...
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An Introduction to the Ponds of Indian Sundarbans—An Essential Socio-Ecological System
Ponds are small lentic bodies that are abundant throughout the world. In the rural setup of many Asian countries, especially in the deltaic regions...
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HydroEurope—WaterEurope: 20 years of Practice in Collaborative Engineering for Hydroinformatics
Since 2000 and under the various Erasmus and Erasmus + frameworks of the European Commission, 6 European universities have initiated an ve...
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A Change in Direction
Abominably poor rainfall in 2017, an escalation in political conflict, expert international advice and crisis fatigue resulted in the City revisiting...
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Poverty in the Pacific: Trends, Progress, and Challenges in the Early Twenty-First Century
Poverty persists in the Pacific but is characterized less by standard international measures of absolute or chronic deprivation than by vulnerability...
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Proposed Guidelines for Planning of Egyptian Fishing Ports
To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), Egypt’s government works to make Egypt a safe competing country that attracts...
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Hydrological Forecasting
Hydrological models underpin many hydrometeorological forecasting techniques and include rainfall-runoff, flow routing and statistical approaches....
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Geospatial Technologies for Development of Cadastral Information System and its Applications for Developmental Planning and e-Governance
Space-based geospatial technology, because of timely availability of information derived from remote sensing data on the desired scale, along with...
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An Impossibly Ambitious Political Response
The water resilience programme was crafted under the direct instruction of the political leadership, contrary to the utility department’s drought...
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Drought Early Warning Systems
Droughts are usually classified in terms of their meteorological, hydrological, groundwater, agricultural or socioeconomic impacts. Forecasting...
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Applied Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation
Adaptation to the impacts of climate change on water resources will involve local decisions made by water users and suppliers. In the case of large...
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Impact-Based Forecasting and Warning
Ensemble and deterministic flow forecasts provide information to support routine operations and issuing early warnings in a range of applications,...
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Romania, in the European Energy Market
To understand the situation of Hidroelectrica Corporation and its contractual partners when it terminated the contracts concluded by invoking force...
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Applications of Nanoparticles for Microbial Contaminants and Pathogens Removal from Wastewater
Because of their unique physical and chemical properties, nanomaterial’s have drawn the attention of many scientists and researchers in various...
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Economic Growth, Employment and Decent Work as a Sustainable Development Policy for All
The Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt Vision 2030 establishes the development march of an advanced and prosperous nation that is maximizing the...
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Extraordinary Governance to Avoid Extraordinary Events
We are in the midst of a water crisis. Scarcity, pollution and flooding are some of today’s key challenges for sustainable urban development. The...
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Geographic Aspects of Hydropolitics: The Case of Nile and Mekong River Basins
TheMekong River filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance DamGrand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in 2020 raised the age-old confrontation between...
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Energy Transitions
This chapter addresses the opportunities for the Pacific region nations and territories to participate in the global transition from fossil to...
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Management and Reclamation of Saline Soils
This chapter addresses management and reclamation of saline soils based on their geo-climatic conditions, local specific problems, soil properties...
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India’s Health Adaptation Plan: Strategic Tool for Minimizing Disaster Related Losses and Damage
Climate change and natural disasters have serious consequences for human health across the world. Climate change, as well as climate-sensitive risks...