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Fragmented Water Governance, Institutional Problems and Questionable Decisions
Despite natural limitations of water supply, lack of financing and institutional problems all being important factors, poor governance is often the...
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Decision Support for Local Water Authorities in Guantao
Policy selection and implementation rely on monitoring data and technical decision support tools. Monitoring data of Guantao County include...
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A Political-Economic Analysis of Water, Indigeneity, and Capitalism in the Face of Climate Change
Technocratic dominance in the water sector imposes a substantial threat to the possibility of participation of indigenous communities in...
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Glenorchy
This chapter examines the proposed arguments in the town of Glenorchy, located in the western part of New Zealand’s Otago region. It finds evidence...
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Energy Security in the Pacific
Energy security is a multifaceted concept, depending on whether the perspective is national or household level, urban or rural, higher or lower...
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Integration of Climate Model & Hydrology Model-Tools, Bias-Correction, Downscaling, & Future Focus
The current chapter provides an overview of climate change impact assessments in water resources, as well as the techniques and procedures that...
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Continued Decay of South Africa’s Basic Water and Sanitation Infrastructure and Service Delivery
South Africa has focussed upon providing water access and services to its population since 1996. The focus of only providing new water access has led...
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The Water, Climate, and Food Nexus: Linkages, Challenges and Emerging Solutions—An Introduction
Water, as an increasingly scarce natural resource, is still a vital resource for both development and security. This resource is coming under an...
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Water Challenges in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
The focus of this chapter was to explore the challenges that prevent rural sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from realizing universal water access. Findings...
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South Africa’s Impending Water Crises: Transforming Water Crises into Opportunities and the Way Forward
This chapter focusses on providing a suitable discussion of water security from a global perspective, highlighting the various primary themes which...
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Looking Ahead and Lessons Learned: The Prospect of Continual Adaptation
This closing chapter returns to topics raised in the introductory chapter, about what adaptive management means – not only in concept but in...
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Aquifer Storage and Recovery: Key Issues and Feasibility
Water is abundant on our planet, but its disparate occurrence at the spatial and temporal scale is causing panic. Apart from the sporadic...
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Groundwater Overexploitation, Changing Crops, A New Wine Region and Legally Binding Allocation Plans
This chapter discusses the water legal and policy framework of Australia. Australia was selected because it is one of the driest countries on the...
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Force Majeure
This chapter presents the significance of the phrase force majeure, its formulation and application in commercial contracts when the impossibility of...
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The Political Economy of Water
The political economy of Pakistan’s water is a complex interplay of interests that in the modern era, beginning in the nineteenth century, emerged...
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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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A Deterministic-Based Model to Apply Type-Based Statistics for Ungauged Catchments
In the previous Chap. 15 , a methodology was proposed to directly regionalise the statistical model...
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AVS-SEM Models
The interaction of metal contaminants with AVS, which results in the formation of metal sulfides, is a crucial process that regulates the...
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The Uneven Waterscape of Leh
This chapter discusses the different dimensions of the results and answers the overarching question how Leh’s transforming waterscape is constituted,...
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The Main Equipment of a Dissolved Air Flotation Plant
The specific features of dissolved air flotation make this clarification technology almost always used in combination with chemical treatment. The...