Chicago Comprehensive Study for Adequate Water Supply, 1992-2030
Author : Harza Engineering Company
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Water quality management
ISBN :
Author : Harza Engineering Company
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Water quality management
ISBN :
Author : Vasileios A. Tzanakakis
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 3039433067
This Book includes selected papers that has been published in the Water journal Special Issue (SI) on Water Supply and Water Scarcity. Moreover, an overview of the SI is included. The papers selected for publication in the SI include review and research papers on water history, on water management issues under water scarcity regimes, on rainwater harvesting, on water quality and degradation, and on climatic variability impacts on water resources. Overall, the issue identify and highlight the main challenges in water sector, and particularly in management and protection of water resources and in use of alternative (non-conventional) water resources, especially in areas with demographic change and climate vulnerability in order to achieve sustainable and secure water supply. Furthermore, general guidelines and possible solutions for an improved and sophisticated water management system are proposed and discussed, such as the adoption of advanced technological solutions and practices that improve water-use efficiency and the use of alternative water resources, to address the growing environmental and health issues and to reduce the emerging conflicts among water users.
Author : Ellen Hanak
Publisher : Public Policy Instit. of CA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1582131414
Author : Colin Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136555110
The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
Author : Léo Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108944973
This analysis of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (HRtWS) uncovers why some groups around the world are still excluded from these rights. Léo Heller, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, draws on his own research in nine countries and reviews the theoretical, legal, and political issues involved. The first part presents the origins of the HRtWS, their legal and normative meanings and the debates surrounding them. Part II discusses the drivers, mainly external to the water and sanitation sector, that shape public policies and explain why individuals and groups are included in or excluded from access to services. In Part III, public policies guided by the realization of HRtWS are addressed. Part IV highlights populations and spheres of living that have been particularly neglected in efforts to promote access to services.
Author : U.S. Global Change Research Program
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521144078
Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
Author : Michael Marien
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 1993-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780930242435
Author : WWAP
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9231003097
Access to water and sanitation is internationally recognized human right. Yet more than t wo billion people lack even the most basic of services. The latest United Nations World Water Development Report, Leaving No One Behind, explores the symptoms of exclusion and investigates ways to overcome inequalities.
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9231001299
There are fewer grounds today than in the past to deplore a North‑South divide in research and innovation. This is one of the key findings of the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030. A large number of countries are now incorporating science, technology and innovation in their national development agenda, in order to make their economies less reliant on raw materials and more rooted in knowledge. Most research and development (R&D) is taking place in high-income countries, but innovation of some kind is now occurring across the full spectrum of income levels according to the first survey of manufacturing companies in 65 countries conducted by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and summarized in this report. For many lower-income countries, sustainable development has become an integral part of their national development plans for the next 10–20 years. Among higher-income countries, a firm commitment to sustainable development is often coupled with the desire to maintain competitiveness in global markets that are increasingly leaning towards ‘green’ technologies. The quest for clean energy and greater energy efficiency now figures among the research priorities of numerous countries. Written by more than 50 experts who are each covering the country or region from which they hail, the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 provides more country-level information than ever before. The trends and developments in science, technology and innovation policy and governance between 2009 and mid-2015 described here provide essential baseline information on the concerns and priorities of countries that could orient the implementation and drive the assessment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the years to come.
Author : WWAP
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Water quality management
ISBN : 9231002643