Water Scarcity Contamination And Management

Author : Ashwani Kumar Tiwari,Amit Kumar,Abhay Kumar Singh,T.N. Singh,Enrico Suozzi,Gagan Matta,Stefano Lo Russo
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323903219

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Water Scarcity, Contamination and Management by Ashwani Kumar Tiwari,Amit Kumar,Abhay Kumar Singh,T.N. Singh,Enrico Suozzi,Gagan Matta,Stefano Lo Russo Pdf

Water Scarcity, Contamination, and Management presents new and updated material, including case studies, step-by-step guidance on key procedures and protocols, and timely topics such as climate change and integrated water resource management. This book is divided into three key sections. Section 1—Water Resource Scarcity—focuses on sustainable development and management of water resources and techniques and methods for improving water use efficiency. Section 2—Contamination of Water Resources—focuses on understanding the quality of water resources, migration of pollutant sources, geochemical processes, groundwater depletion, and seasonal variations in contaminant concentration, water resources’ quality status, and associated human health risks. Section 3—Water Resource Management—considers a consolidated and coordinated approach to find the solution to water resource issues. Presenting a comprehensive overview of the water management field, the book serves as a valuable reference for students, professors, scholars, researchers, and consultants in the fields of water resources, civil engineering, environmental science and engineering, and hydrology. Provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and the advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques Includes numerous examples and real-world case studies Presents the roles of remote sensing and GIS in solving the water resource crisis

Author : Pardeep Singh,Rishikesh Singh,Vipin Kumar Singh,Rahul Bhadouria
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119693659

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Pollutants and Water Management by Pardeep Singh,Rishikesh Singh,Vipin Kumar Singh,Rahul Bhadouria Pdf

POLLUTANTS AND WATER MANAGEMENT Pollutants and Water Management: Resources, Strategies and Scarcity delivers a balanced and comprehensive look at recent trends in the management of polluted water resources. Covering the latest practical and theoretical aspects of polluted water management, the distinguished academics and authors emphasize indigenous practices of water resource management, the scarcity of clean water, and the future of the water system in the context of an increasing urbanization and globalization. The book details the management of contaminated water sites, including heavy metal contaminations in surface and subsurface water sources. It details a variety of industrial activities that typically pollute water, such as those involving crude oils and dyes. In its discussion of recent trends in abatement strategies, Pollutants and Water Management includes an exploration of the application of microorganisms, like bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, and cyanobacteria, for the management of environmental contaminants. Readers will also discover a wide variety of other topics on the conservation of water sources including: The role of government and the public in the management of water resource pollution The causes of river system pollution and potential future scenarios in the abatement of river pollution Microbial degradation of organic pollutants in various water bodies The advancement in membrane technology used in water treatment processes Lead contamination in groundwater and recent trends in abatement strategies for it Highly polluting industries and their effects on surrounding water resources Perfect for graduate and postgraduate students and researchers whose focus is on recent trends in abatement strategies for pollutants and the application of microorganisms for the management of environmental contaminants, Pollutants and Water Management: Resources, Strategies and Scarcity also has a place in the libraries of environmentalists whose work involves the management and conservation of polluted sites.

Author : Hillel Shuval
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323153980

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Water Quality Management Under Conditions of Scarcity by Hillel Shuval Pdf

Water Quality Management under Conditions of Scarcity: Israel as a Case Study focuses on the problems of water quality management under circumstances of severe water resource scarcity, particularly in Israel. This book examines how Israel's engineers and scientists deal with the development and management of its limited water resources. Comprised of 13 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the interrelationships between man's well-being and the water environment. This text then explores the goal of water quality control in protecting human health and well-being from exposure to toxic chemicals and detrimental pathogenic microorganisms. Other chapters discuss the development of science, technology, and administrative practice dealing with water quality control, including hygiene, environmental health, sanitation, sanitary engineering, ecology, and environmental protection. The final chapter deals with the concept of hierarchical and selective water use. Biologists, engineers, chemists, agronomists, public health officers, and water resources authorities will find this book extremely useful.

Author : Msangi Josephine Phillip
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400770973

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Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa by Msangi Josephine Phillip Pdf

This book offers a close examination of water scarcity as a developmental challenge facing member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the interventions that have been implemented to combat the situation and the challenges still outstanding. The first chapter paints the backdrop of the water scarcity problem, reviewing historical approaches from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) to the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012), and recapping principles and agreements reached during and after these conferences. Chapter two examines the Southern Africa region’s efforts to combat water scarcity including principles, policies and strategies and the responsibility of each member to implement them. Written by the editor, J.P. Msangi, the chapter describes Namibia’s efforts to ensure management of scarce water. Beyond enacting management and pollution control regulations and raising public awareness, Namibia encourages research to ensure attainment of the requirements of both the SADC Protocol and its own water scarcity management laws. The next three chapters offer Namibia-based case studies on impacts of pollution on water treatment; on the effects of anthropogenic activities on water quality and on the effects of water transfers from dams upstream of Von Bach dam. The final chapter provides detailed summaries of the issues discussed in the book, highlighting conclusions and offering recommendations. Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa synthesizes issues pertinent to the SADC countries as well as to other regions, and offers research that up to now has not been conducted in Namibia.

Author : Arun Lal Srivastav,Sughosh Madhav,Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj,Eugenia Valsami-Jones
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323912938

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Urban Water Crisis and Management by Arun Lal Srivastav,Sughosh Madhav,Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj,Eugenia Valsami-Jones Pdf

Urban Water Crisis and Management: Strategies for Sustainable Development, Sixth Edition presents solutions for the current challenges of urban water and management strategies. Through contributed chapters, a framework is laid out for a reduction of the use of groundwater (heavily overused as a solution) and the alternative options for the supply of water to cities, or for urban water. Sections discuss urban water, its problems and management approaches, address the root causes of the water crisis in urban areas, and cover the scientific and technical knowledge necessary to manage water resources. Significant gaps between developed and developing nations in the procedure of water management are also addressed, along with practical information regarding recycling and the reuse of wastewater which is useful as baseline data for the future. Presents the quantitative study of water supply in urban areas, identifies water scarcity in megacities, and provides management approaches for sustainable development Identifies technology and the instruments required for the management and safe supply of water Includes case studies where these technologies have been successfully used

Author : Luis Santos Pereira,Ian Cordery,Iacovos Iacovides
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402095795

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Coping with Water Scarcity by Luis Santos Pereira,Ian Cordery,Iacovos Iacovides Pdf

One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water. There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems for local populations and indeed entire societies. There is insufficient water available for the production of food to alleviate poverty and starvation; the lack of water hampers industrial, urban and tourism development, forcing restrictions on other sectors, especially agriculture; health problems arise as the deterioration of ground and surface waters favours water-borne diseases, which flourish in the absence of decent water distribution and sewerage systems. Water conflicts still arise in areas under stress, while water for nature has become a vanishing priority in such zones. This book is a guide to the establishment of regional and/or local guidelines for developing and implementing new ideas for coping with water scarcity. The basic premise underlying the book is that water scarcity will persist, so personal, human and society-wide skills will be needed to cope with it while living in harmony with the necessary environmental constraints. The book provides basic information to assist decision makers, water managers, engineers, agronomists, social scientists and other professions (and their students) in formulating coherent, hopefully harmonious and consolidated views on the issue. Guidelines are also given for introducing the general public to the concept of water scarcity and how to deal with it.

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642054327

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Water Resources in Mexico by Úrsula Oswald Spring Pdf

Water resources in Mexico are threatened by scarcity, pollution and climate change. In two decades water consumption doubled, producing water stress in dry seasons and semi-arid and arid regions. Water stress rises due to physical and economic stress. In seven parts a multidisciplinary team analyzes hydrological processes in basins and their interaction with climate, soil and biota. Competing water use in agriculture, industry and domestic needs require savings, decontamination processes and desalination to satisfy the growing demand. Water quality affects health and ecosystems. This creates conflicts and cooperation that may be enhanced by public policy, institution building and social organization.

Author : Lewis D. Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351532051

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America's Water and Wastewater Crisis by Lewis D. Solomon Pdf

This book examines the role of private firms in the American water and wastewater industry. As more water infrastructure shifts from public- to private-sector control, vendors, consultants, and facilities are taking on more importance. Lewis D. Solomon presents an historical overview of water supply and treatment needs and the role of the government, including how water policy has been crafted. He argues that water scarcity is becoming a problem due to groundwater depletion, contamination, and patterns of consumption. He examines the impact of climate change on water availability and quality considering voluntary conservation programs and mandatory restrictions for water use. Solomon points to how for-profit firms can use technology to increase water supply. He describes what privatization would look like in practice and reviews evidence from two case studies. Solomon proposes privatization as a viable response to America's water crisis that can address both scarcity and capital problems. America's Water and Wastewater Crisis presents a careful examination of how the water industry has operated in the United States in the past and how it may work as we move into the future. This book is invaluable to environmental specialists, businessmen, and government officials.

Author : Colin A. Booth,Susanne M. Charlesworth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118809112

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Water Resources in the Built Environment by Colin A. Booth,Susanne M. Charlesworth Pdf

Water management is a key environmental issue in controlling offloods and reducing droughts. This book provides analysis of themain issues, offering solutions and describing good practice. Water Resources for the Built Environment: management issuesand solutions develops an appreciation of the diverse, complexand current themes of the water resources debate across the builtenvironment, urban development and management continuum. Theintegration of physical and environmental sciences, combined withsocial, economic and political sciences, provide a unique resource,useful to policy experts, scientists, engineers and subjectenthusiasts. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, waterresources issues and impacts on the built environment are presentedin the inventive and strategic setting of considering theconstraints of delivering potable water to an ever-demandingsociety who, at the same time, are increasingly aware of living inan urban landscape where excessive surface water creates a floodthreatened environment – hence, the need to portray a balancebetween ‘too little vs. too much’. This unique approach to the water resources debate presents amultifaceted collection of chapters that address the contemporaryconcomitant issues of water shortage and urban flooding andproffers solutions specifically for the built environment. The book is structured into three parts: the first part(Sections 2, 3 and 4) addresses management issues and solutions tominimise water shortages and provide water security for society;whilst the second part of the book (Sections 5 and 6) addressesmanagement issues and solutions to control excessive rainfall andminimise flooding impacts. The third part (Section 7)contextualises the issues of the earlier sections withininternational case studies from the developing world.

Author : M. Dinesh Kumar
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323914512

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Water Productivity and Food Security by M. Dinesh Kumar Pdf

Water Productivity and Food Security: Global Trends and Regional Patterns, Volume Three reviews the need for water productivity improvements in agriculture, addressing three distinct questions pertaining to agricultural water productivity improvement in developing countries, including what are the regions where water is a limiting factor for raising agricultural outputs and water productivity improvements, what are the technological measures in irrigation that can raise agricultural water productivity and result in water saving at various scales, and what opportunities exist in the developing economies of South Asia and Africa for raising water productivity and improving water economy at basin scale. This book provides a framework to characterize river basins based on water availability, water supplies, water uses and water demands to ascertain the need and measures available for improving crop water productivity that would be effective at various scales, i.e., plant-level, plot-level, irrigation system level and basin level. This is an essential reference for anyone interested in water management and agriculture. Presents clear explanations of the physical and technical measures that can be adopted to improve productivity of water in agricultural production under different basin conditions Offers physical strategies for improving water productivity in agriculture in different agroecological regions, along with the institutional and policy measures that affect them Includes methodologies for assessing the food security challenges of individual nations using empirical analysis and global datasets

Author : Ed. K.R. Gupta
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 8126909587

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Water Crisis in India by Ed. K.R. Gupta Pdf

Water is a prime natural resource and a basic necessity for sustaining life on earth. Supplying adequate amount of potable water to the global population is a gigantic task in the wake of growing industrial and domestic needs. The threat of climate change and global warming which has aggravated the problem of water shortage is of particular concern to India as we are largely dependent on glaciers and rainfall for water supply. The United Nations World Water Development Report, Water: A Shared Responsibility emphasizes the need for good governance to meet the ever-increasing demand for water. The report asserts that mismanagement, corruption, lack of appropriate institutions, bureaucratic inertia and paucity of investment in human and physical sources mar water management today. The situation calls for right policy decisions and adoption of sustainable practices. The problem is acute in India because of its high population density, space and time variability of rainfall and increasing depletion and contamination of its surface and groundwater resources. Most water resources in India are contaminated by sewage and agricultural run-off. Besides, overuse of pesticides and chemicals in agriculture is the primary cause of groundwater pollution in India. Further, uneven water distribution across the country is another aspect of water problem. A large area of the country is water deficit whereas a small part is bestowed with abundance of water. This has led to inter-state conflicts. The present anthology contains well researched articles by eminent scholars who have deeply analysed the problem and its various implications. Major factors responsible for the problem have been studied in detail and some measures have been suggested to retrieve the situation. The book will serve as a reference source for students, researchers and policymakers and all those concerned with an ensured supply of water across the country.

Author : Arun Lal Srivastav,Sughosh Madhav,Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj,Eugenia Valsami-Jones
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323918381

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Urban Water Crisis and Management by Arun Lal Srivastav,Sughosh Madhav,Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj,Eugenia Valsami-Jones Pdf

Urban Water Crisis and Management Strategies for Sustainable Development presents solutions for the current challenges of urban water and their management strategies. Through the contributed chapters, a framework is laid out for a reduction of the use of groundwater (heavily overused as a solution) and the alternative options for the supply of water to the cities or urban water. Therefore, decision-makers and water supply authorities will get also benefited along with the students to supply safe water in the cities. This book is unique in the specified area of urban water management as there is no comparable book is available till now. An introductory overview of urban water, its problems and management approaches are discussed in Urban water crisis and management strategies. It will address the root causes of the water crisis in urban areas. Quantitative and qualitative problems of urban water will be discussed in this book. Availability of scientific and technical knowledge to manage water resources in the cities and towns will also be addressed. Significant gaps between developed and developing nations in the procedure of water management will be addressed in the chapters. Policy for water management in the urban areas will be discussed along with the sources of water. This book will also include the practical information regarding recycling and reuse of wastewater which will be useful as baseline data for the future. The book is divided into two themes.

Author : Randolph Barker
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : 9789290904106

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Water Scarcity/Poverty by Randolph Barker Pdf

Author : Asit K. Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada,Benedito Braga,Diego J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540304449

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Water Quality Management in the Americas by Asit K. Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada,Benedito Braga,Diego J. Rodriguez Pdf

This study presents for the first time an independent and authoritative analysis of water quality management in North and South America, and discusses the practices and future implications of the impacts of the current practices in the different countries of the hemisphere. Includes in-depth case studies analyzing water quality management practices at country and state levels, especially in terms of their effectiveness and overall impact.

Author : Daniel H. Chen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482215199

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Sustainable Water Management by Daniel H. Chen Pdf

While the world’s population continues to grow, the availability of water remains constant. Facing the looming water crisis, society needs to tackle strategic management issues as an integrated part of the solution toward water sustainability. The first volume in the two-volume set Sustainable Water Management and Technologies offers readers a practical and comprehensive look at such key water management topics as water resource planning and governance, water infrastructure planning and adaption, proper regulations, and water scarcity and inequality. It discusses best management practices for water resource allocation, ground water protection, and water quality assurance, especially for rural, arid, and underdeveloped regions of the world. Timely topics such as drought, ecosystem sustainability, climate change, and water management for shale oil and gas development are presented. Discusses best practices for water resource allocation, ground water protection, and water quality assurance. Offers chapters on urban, rural, arid, and underdeveloped regions of the world. Describes timely topics such as drought, ecosystem sustainability, climate change, and water management for shale oil and gas development. Covers water resource planning and governance, water infrastructure planning and adaptation, proper regulations, and water scarcity and inequality Discusses water resource monitoring, efficiency, and quality management.