Rethinking Water Management: Innovative Approaches to Contemporary Issues - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853839949 ISBN 13: 9781853839948

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

If water resources are to be distributed efficiently, equitably and cost-effectively in this rapidly changing world, then it is clear that current water management practices are no longer feasible. Innovative approaches are required to meet the increasing water demands of a growing world population and economy and the needs of the ecosystems supporting them. New approaches have to be employed at global, national and local levels. In Rethinking Water Management, a new generation of water experts from around the world examine the critical challenges confronting the water profession, including rainwater and groundwater management, recycling and reuse, water rights, transboundary access to water and financing of water. They offer important new perspectives on the use, management and conservation of fresh water, in terms of both quantity and quality, for the domestic, agricultural and industrial sectors, and show how a new set of paradigms can be applied to successfully manage water for the future. Caroline Figures is Head of the Urban Infrastructure Department at UNESCO-IHE Water Education Institute in The Netherlands. Cecilia Tortajada is Vice President of the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico and Vice President-elect of the International Water Resources Association. Johan Rockström is Water Resources Expert at UNESCO-IHE.

About this title

Product Description:

By 2020 the World Commission on Water predicts that there will not be enough fresh water to meet all industrial, agricultural and domestic needs because of increasing pollution, population growth and poor management. Water management at the global, regional and local levels is becoming of critical importance.In this book a new generation of managers explain how the growing problems can be tackled with the collaboration of governments, international bodies and the private sector. They offer new perspectives on some of the most acute problems and show how a new set of paradigms can be applied in ways that can avert the looming crisis.

Review:

''Presents case studies and discusses relevant issues of environmental, economic and social reforms in developing and developed nations.' SciTech Book News

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1853839949
• ISBN 13: 9781853839948
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Figueres Caroline, Rockstrom Johan, Tortajada Cecilia