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Drinking Water Security in Rural India

Nitin Bassi , Saurabh Kumar , M. Dinesh Kumar

This book highlights the multi-pronged strategy for achieving sustainable rural domestic water supply in India. It deepens the understanding of groundwater (predominant source of water supply) behaviour in response to natural processes in different geological settings,...



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Water Security Under Climate Change

Asit K. Biswas , Cecilia Tortajada

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.  A major global concern at present,...



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Phnom Penh Water Story

Asit K. Biswas , Pawan K. Sachdeva , Cecilia Tortajada

This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of the most successful water utilities of the developing world in only about...



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Transparent Water Management Theory

Naim Haie

This book provides a solid foundation for a comprehensive, systemic and water-centric approach to water management. Said approach integrates two performance principles essential for sustainable water use systems, namely equity and efficiency. Further, it decreases the...



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Water Governance and Management in India

Girish Chadha , Ashwin B. Pandya

This book highlights the need for effective water governance in India given the fact that the country has been facing serious water stress in recent years. The water management in the country needs a serious scientific understanding coupled with the cooperative approach...



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Hydrology and Limnology of Central Asia

Jilili Abuduwaili , Gulnura Issanova , Galymzhan Saparov

This book highlights the development of lake systems and water reservoirs as well as the impact of climate change on water resources in Central Asian countries. It provides information on the genesis of lake basins, physical and chemical properties of water in lakes,...



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Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change

Cecilia Tortajada

This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions in the Arid Americas...



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Water Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Asit K. Biswas , Cecilia Tortajada

This book pursues a comprehensive approach so as to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of climate change on sustainable development, focusing on the perspective of water. Climate change is one of today’s most pressing global issues and will become...



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Society - Water - Technology

Oliver Bens , Christine Bismuth , Sebastian Hoechstetter , Reinhard F. Hüttl

This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It describes interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and...



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