Overview
- Integrated vision on water scarcity
- Guidelines for building locally or regionally adapted planning and management guides
- Calling for new ideas and innovative approaches
- Methods for disseminating ideas on coping with water scarcity throughout the community
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coping with Water Scarcity
Book Subtitle: Addressing the Challenges
Authors: Luis Santos Pereira, Ian Cordery, Iacovos Iacovides
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9579-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9578-8Published: 27 March 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8161-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9579-5Published: 22 March 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 382
Topics: Environmental Management, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Hydrogeology, Climate Change Management and Policy, Atmospheric Sciences, Soil Science & Conservation