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Author : Teng Ma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 7562525560
Author : J. Anthony A. Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048134267
Burgeoning population and climate change are among the most critical challenges facing the 21st century. Both have critical implications for groundwater resources, especially in many developing countries where resources are already under pressure. Due to low rainfall and high evaporation in parts of the Middle East and North Africa, groundwater is not being renewed, and groundwater laid down up to 10,000 years ago is literally being mined for irrigation, often very inefficiently. Over recent decades, groundwater levels have fallen dramatically in key grain-growing regions like the American Great Plains and the North China Plain. As the population grows and emerging economies like China and India demand more food, especially water intensive meat products, agricultural demand for water is set to increase. The rapid shift of population from the countryside to the cities is also adding to this pressure; most old wells in Beijing are now dry. Pollution from industry, agriculture and shanty towns is destroying many groundwater resources; some could take 50 years to clean up even with strict and immediate controls. This volume looks at the technical, socio-economic and political problems being faced, and at the developments in groundwater science and management that may help create a sustainable future for our planet.
Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme,Van der Gun, Jac
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789230010492
Author : Yongxin Xu,E. Braune
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000067070589
Disseminating investigations and providing pointers towards achieving sustainable groundwater supplies in community environments across the African continent, this book provides coverage of search integrated water, sanitation, hygiene delivery, and implementation best practices. The second part, through a variety of case studies, illustrates the current status and pitfalls that hydrogeologists experience--highlighting the relevant challenges that Sub-Saharan Africa still faces in this battle. The chapters assess the current situation, best practices, and contemporary challenges.
Author : Wei Dong,Yanqing Lian,Yong Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319616308
This book presents the gatherings of the “2016 International Conference on Water Resource and Hydraulic Engineering,” which primarily focused on the sustainable development of water resources and the environment in both China and the United States. The respective papers cover a wide variety of research areas, including watershed hydrology; river hydraulics; groundwater hydrology; water resources management and sustainability development; water supply planning under climate change; water quality analysis and water pollution; sponge city development and urban watershed management; environment and sustainability; global connections between air and water; and irrigation and drainage issues for agricultural engineering. The contributions will be of interest to a global readership and highlight the emerging problems facing developing countries, as well as research and measures to successfully deal with them and promote a greener and more eco-friendly living environment.
Author : Mary Brentwood,Stephen Robar
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015058867626
Woldwide, developed and developing countries increasingly depend on groundwater resources for domestic water supply. Since groundwater is a hidden resource and individuals cannot see how much has been used and what is left, this book attempts to make global groundwater use more visible so that policy makers can make informed decisions as to its management. Organized into six geographical regions, the authors describe the various physical, cultural and institutional challenges of groundwater policy and management faced by countries worldwide. Analysis of the challenges and responses to groundwater management at the national level hopes to generate a broader understanding for societies across the globe. Each chapter provides the physical geography and demographics of the country, its water use, problems, law, politics and policy and future implications. Chapters on representative countries within North America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Australia and China and Africa provide a comprehensive perspective of groundwater issues internationally.
Author : J. Anthony A. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9048134250
Burgeoning population and climate change are among the most critical challenges facing the 21st century. Both have critical implications for groundwater resources, especially in many developing countries where resources are already under pressure. Due to low rainfall and high evaporation in parts of the Middle East and North Africa, groundwater is not being renewed, and groundwater laid down up to 10,000 years ago is literally being mined for irrigation, often very inefficiently. Over recent decades, groundwater levels have fallen dramatically in key grain-growing regions like the American Great Plains and the North China Plain. As the population grows and emerging economies like China and India demand more food, especially water intensive meat products, agricultural demand for water is set to increase. The rapid shift of population from the countryside to the cities is also adding to this pressure; most old wells in Beijing are now dry. Pollution from industry, agriculture and shanty towns is destroying many groundwater resources; some could take 50 years to clean up even with strict and immediate controls. This volume looks at the technical, socio-economic and political problems being faced, and at the developments in groundwater science and management that may help create a sustainable future for our planet.
Author : Wolfgang Kinzelbach,Haijing Wang,Yu Li,Lu Wang,Ning Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9789811658433
Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief. Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation calculator, a box model, and a distributed groundwater model to project the outcomes of different water allocation scenarios. In view of grain security, a solution combines an adaptation of the cropping system with imports of surface water from the South. The Open Access book does not only describe the problem and the path to its solution. It also gives access to nine manuals concerning methods used. They include computer programs and the game Save the Water. The Chinese experience should be of considerable interest to other regions in the world which suffer from over-pumping of aquifers.
Author : Abhijit Mukherjee,Bridget R. Scanlon,Alice Aureli,Simon Langan,Huaming Guo,Andrew A. McKenzie
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128181737
Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions presents a compilation of compelling insights into groundwater scenarios within all groundwater-stressed regions across the world. Thematic sub-sections include groundwater studies on sources, scarcity, sustainability, security, and solutions. The chapters in these sub-sections provide unique knowledge on groundwater for scientists, planners, and policymakers, and are written by leading global experts and researchers. Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions provides a unique, unparalleled opportunity to integrate the knowledge on groundwater, ranging from availability to pollution, nation-level groundwater management to transboundary aquifer governance, and global-scale review to local-scale case-studies. Provides interdisciplinary content that bridges the knowledge from groundwater sources to solutions and sustainability, from science to policy, from technology to clean water and food Includes global and regional reviews and case studies, building a bridge between broad reviews of groundwater-related issues by domain experts as well as detailed case studies by researchers Identifies pathways for transforming knowledge to policy and governance of groundwater security and sustainability
Author : Seungho Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030787790
This book investigates water resources management and policy in China over the last two decades with a core focus on the role of water for socioeconomic development and sustainability. Recent policies, such as the Three Red Lines and the Water Ten Plan are evaluated for sustainable water supply, use and quality control. The book appraises solutions through demand management, water rights and pollution trading, virtual water and water footprint. Supply management is discussed taking examples from the Three Gorges Dam and the South North Water Transfer Project. The water market is investigated uncovering the active engagement of the private sector and includes discussions on how transboundary rivers demonstrate China’s engagement with its riparian countries for benefit sharing. This book will be an invaluable reference for researchers in the field as well as practitioners and students who have an interest in water and development in China.
Author : Rabindra P. Osti
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292614638
This study provides an overview of the water security situation in the People's Republic of China. It assesses the policy and institutional requirements for addressing issues and recommends strategic areas for strengthening and reform. The five dimensions of water security covered in the research are domestic water security, economic production water security, environmental water security, ecological water security, and resilience to water-related disasters. A summary of key policy recommendations identifies the essential measures needed to effectively move forward the alleviation of water security issues in different time frames.
Author : S. Suriyanarayanan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819986392
Author : Yong Xiao,Venkatramanan Senapathi,Lichun Wang,Chengcheng Li,Haiyan Liu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832526675
Author : Laura M. Pereira,Caitlin A. McElroy,Alexandra Littaye,Alexandra M. Girard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317446187
Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management. This volume presents a diversity of collaborations between various governance actors in the management of the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus. It analyses the ability of emergent governance structures to cope with the complexity of future challenges across FEW systems. Divided into two sections, chapters in the first half of the book present a collection of case studies from around the world exemplifying how FEW nexus challenges are addressed in a multitude of ways and by a variety of actors. Chapters in the second half offer broader perspectives on the management of FEW and underline the lessons that emerge from applying a FEW lens to the question of natural resource governance. The varied examples in this book highlight that the management of FEW is often a question of reinventing, adapting, and building upon existing practices. Such practices are deeply embedded in unique socio-cultural, environmental, and political contexts as well as ‘hard’ infrastructures. Most of all, this edited volume seeks to communicate the wealth of ideas from committed individuals who continue to work to improve natural resource governance and our sustainable futures.
Author : Frank van Steenbergen,Frank Radstake,Fan Guisheng,Zhang Wenzhong
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789292576141
Climate change and declining water resources threaten food production systems worldwide, increasing the need for efficient agricultural processes. The Shanxi Province of the People's Republic of China has been experiencing declining groundwater tables since 1956. This publication provides examples of how the Asian Development Bank's development support met the rising challenges in water security, food production, and climate change faced by communities in the Shanxi Province. It describes initiatives in four counties in the Shanxi Province selected as pilot areas, where traditional farmers learned modern methods of groundwater use and management. As a result, options for more sustainable use of groundwater were introduced, while farm labor was reduced, crop yields increased, and water was used more efficiently.