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This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and
challenges of the Smart Water Management (SWM) approach. Smart
Water Management has increasingly been promoted to manage water and
wastewater more efficiently and cost effectively by industries and
utilities in urban contexts at regional or city scales, while
reducing overall consumption. It is based on the use of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide real-time, automated
data to resolve water challenges. Many of these technologies are
complex and costly, however, and the approach tends to overlook
cheaper and less high-tech (softer) approaches to address the same
problems. Yet there may be opportunities for using them even in
resource short rural communities in developing countries. The book
includes examples of SWM systems in practice in diverse locations
from Korea, Mexico, Paris, the Canary Islands and southern Africa,
aimed at addressing a diverse set of problems, including monitoring
water supply to refugees. Critical voices highlight the need for
smart institutions to accompany smart technologies, the absurdity
of applying SWM to dysfunctional legacy infrastructure systems,
whether its adoption raises moral hazards, and whether SWM is the
latest example of hegemonic masculinity in water management. The
chapters in this book were originally published in Water
International.
Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere.
Everything around us relies on groundwater, our drinking water and
sanitation, our food supply and our natural environment. Yet
because it is invisible, information, management and governance of
groundwater is often poor and inadequate. This book contributes to
UN Water Groundwater year (2022), and to the effort of "making the
invisible, visible". Through worldwide case studies ranging from
the Americas (California, Brazil), to Asia (India, Iran, Lao PDR,
Nepal), Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa) and the MENA region
(Lebanon, Morocco, Yemen), including cases of transboundary
aquifers, the chapters in this edited volume reflect important
recent advances in interdisciplinary knowledge on the governance,
management, practice and science-policy interfaces of groundwater.
An insightful resource for researchers and planners in the field of
environmental policies, water laws, climate change and groundwater
governance, this book comes with a new Introduction. The other
chapters were originally published in Water International.
From the perspective of the maturing metropolitan water economy,
this book considers the problems of urban water management in Asia
and the Pacific. It focuses on the institutional and policy
dimensions of conflict and provides viable options for reducing the
growing frictions among water users. .
Combining a journalist's view of major trials with a
political-legal analysis, this text gives a picture of the politics
of justice in Russia. Coverage of major court cases ranges from the
1961 trial of the "currency speculators" to the Communist Party
trial of 1992.
This book is the first of its kind on the emerging topic of
source-to-sea management. It showcases different applications of
the concept to improve the environmental health of freshwater, land
and coastal and marine systems, drawing upon research performed
across Europe, Africa and Asia. Improved management of land,
freshwater, coasts and oceans is a key environmental challenge of
our time. It is needed to prevent the millions of tons of plastic
and other pollutants that enter the ocean from land-based sources
each year. It is essential to reduce highly polluted,
oxygen-depleted "dead zones" in our coastal and marine waters.
Extensive diversions of the flows of rivers need to be avoided to
ensure that little or no water reaches the sea. Source-to-sea (S2S)
is an emerging concept to improve understanding of how to
effectively manage freshwater, land, coastal and marine systems.
The collected works in this book explore experiences with S2S
management in diverse regions across Europe, Asia, Africa and
Australia, addressing sedimentation, nutrient and pharmaceutical
pollution in freshwater and marine aquatic environments, and marine
debris on the coasts and in the seas. It provides key insights into
a few areas that should be of interest to those who want to learn
from the lessons from case studies of applied S2S interventions.
This book will be of great value to scholars, students and
researchers interested in global freshwater, coastal zone, ocean
management, sustainable development and environmental governance.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the journal Water International.
Although Asia is the least urbanized continent, it contains half of
the world's megacities and many of the world's fastest-growing
economies. Urban growth is already stressing local water supplies
and causing intense conflict among water users-between haves and
have-nots in urban areas as well as between farmers and fishers
outside the cities. In addition, concern is growing over the
depletion and degradation of water sources and over the impact of
water policies and patterns of water use on the natural
environment. From the perspective of the maturing metropolitan
water economy, the contributors to this volume consider the
problems of urban water management in the region. They focus on the
institutional and policy dimensions of conflict and seek to provide
a range of viable options for reducing the growing frictions among
water users. Eight specific case studies of urban areas in Asia and
the Pacific span a wide range of economic levels of development,
physical settings, and hydrological conditions. The book will be of
interest to scholars and policymakers concerned with issues of
water and environmental policy, urban management, and resource
conflict in general.
China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in
which international law plays a vital role. Paramount to both
policymakers and researchers in the field of water law, the current
status of transboundary water cooperation schemes and how these
operate in China is of global significance. Grounded in
international experience, this comprehensive volume provides
readers with an up-to-date overview of current international
transboundary water resource sharing policies and practices,
including detailed case studies at both domestic and international
levels. The authors discuss existing international laws, treaties,
and principles that may stimulate transboundary water cooperation
and dialogue, and then analyse a number of international
experiences with treaties in North America, Eastern Europe, and
Central Asia. They take stock of China's water resource issues,
legal practices and options, examine case studies of China's
southern shared rivers, and explore some innovative approaches to
cooperative management of shared waters within China. The articles
in this book were originally published in the journal Water
International.
Combining a journalist's view of major trials with a
political-legal analysis, this text gives a picture of the politics
of justice in Russia. Coverage of major court cases ranges from the
1961 trial of the "currency speculators" to the Communist Party
trial of 1992.
This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in
different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance,
from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation
measures. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3 on Water and
Sanitation emphasizes the centrality of improving water quality to
attain sustainable development. Yet the obstacles to achieving this
goal are significant. This book explores the variety of difficult,
possibly intractable "wicked" problems of water quality governance
around the world. Cases include the challenge of managing water
from source to sea, exploring why attempts to do so have come up
short in limiting harm to the Great Barrier Reef; differing social
discourses on market based instruments in Canada; efforts to bring
to closure the human legacies of Minamata methyl mercury poisoning
half a century ago in Japan; current problems of mercury use in
Andean mining; misalignment of established Eastern European water
laws with those of the EU; water quality markets in China; the
impacts of service coverage and quality on low income households in
countries from New Zealand to Bangladesh and Malawi; the importance
of perceptions, ranging from the use of treated wastewater by
farmers in the MENA region to consumers in Fukushima and to users
of the artificial river in Beijing's Olympic Park; and finally the
confluence of wicked problems in refugee camps facing COVID. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the journal,
Water International.
The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of
oversubscribed water. This is true of conventional mining as much
as - or even more than - hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The
legacy issues of such mining on water have not been fully
appreciated, especially the irretrievable effects mining has had on
communities and ecosystems around the world through its impact on
water. Yet this is not an 'us-or-them' problem: the wealth,
influence and technical knowledge of mining interests can and must
be part of the solution. All of the contributions to this volume
either consider the deficiencies of existing governance structures
and the need for better ones, or explore the use of new techniques
to identify and evaluate social and environmental impacts. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the journal
Water International.
The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of
oversubscribed water. This is true of conventional mining as much
as - or even more than - hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The
legacy issues of such mining on water have not been fully
appreciated, especially the irretrievable effects mining has had on
communities and ecosystems around the world through its impact on
water. Yet this is not an 'us-or-them' problem: the wealth,
influence and technical knowledge of mining interests can and must
be part of the solution. All of the contributions to this volume
either consider the deficiencies of existing governance structures
and the need for better ones, or explore the use of new techniques
to identify and evaluate social and environmental impacts. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the journal
Water International.
China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in
which international law plays a vital role. Paramount to both
policymakers and researchers in the field of water law, the current
status of transboundary water cooperation schemes and how these
operate in China is of global significance. Grounded in
international experience, this comprehensive volume provides
readers with an up-to-date overview of current international
transboundary water resource sharing policies and practices,
including detailed case studies at both domestic and international
levels. The authors discuss existing international laws, treaties,
and principles that may stimulate transboundary water cooperation
and dialogue, and then analyse a number of international
experiences with treaties in North America, Eastern Europe, and
Central Asia. They take stock of China's water resource issues,
legal practices and options, examine case studies of China's
southern shared rivers, and explore some innovative approaches to
cooperative management of shared waters within China. The articles
in this book were originally published in the journal Water
International.
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