Drought & Water Supply

This book charts the history of the water catchments and water supply for the city of Melbourne, which has many unique aspects that are a critical ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Progra...

Sub-Saharan Africa has an irrigation potential of about 42 million hectares of which only 17% is developed. Despite several investments in irrigati...

A water crisis on our immediate horizon is destined to hurt, even kill, millions of children, and the window of opportunity to do something about i...

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, gre...

Qanat is a gently sloping subterranean canal, which taps a water-bearing zone at a higher elevation than cultivated lands. A qanat consist of a ser...

China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours ...

Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought. Both countries cover a range of biophysical conditions, both ...

The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from...

Tapping Water Markets is about the past, present, and future of water markets. It compares water markets with political water allocation, documents...

This study provides a hydrology based assessment of (surface) water resources and its continuum of variability and change at different spatio-tempo...

When it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle. Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new idea...

When it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle. Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new idea...

The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six count...

International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river ...

This book, which was first published in 1992 and then updated in 2007, provides a tool for dealing with the legal and institutional aspects of wate...

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are under...

Just as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastru...

Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this ...

Drought is a slow-onset natural hazard that is often referred to as a creeping phenomenon. The challenge of monitoring droughts onset and evolution...

Central Asia is the cluster of countries located in the basin of the Great Aral Sea. It originates from the ancient civilizations of the IV-III mil...

A completely revised and updated new edition of this successful book focused on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green...

The book presents a critical and comparative analysis of the hydropolitical landscape of African transboundary river basins which, for much of the ...

Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilised or disproportionately allocated to the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was signi...

Water is an integral part of our daily lives, yet most of us have little idea about how much water we use to maintain our lifestyles and the extent...

Water is an integral part of our daily lives, yet most of us have little idea about how much water we use to maintain our lifestyles and the extent...

This book focuses on skeleton-degradable soils, including three typical degradation processes of soil skeletons: soil particle breakage, chemical d...

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water. The regulation of fres...

Proceedings of a conference on Integrated River Basin Management under the Water Framework Directive, held at Le Nouveau SiÞcle, Lille, France on 2...

Advanced methods for water consumption management can help save water and financial resources. This book introduces efficient methods and practical...