Water Resource Management
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 9788740309782
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. The global water crisis; title: 1.1. The global water crisis in figures; title: 1.2. Increased global water stress; title: 1.3. Global climate change; title: 1.4. Tasks:; title: 2. Science of Water; title: 2.1. General physical and chemical properties of water; title: 2.2. Global water; title: 2.3. Freshwater use; title: 2.4. Water pollution; title: 2.5. Urban water supply and purification of potable water; title: 2.6. Drains, waste water and sewage treatment; title: 2.7. Tasks; title: 3. Water Governance and Water Policy Issues; title: 3.1. Water Governance; title: 3.2. Hydropolitics; title: 3.3. Tasks:; title: 4. Water, Sustainability and Development; title: 4.1. General definition of sustainability; title: 4.2. Sustainable development and its applications to rural water supply in developing countries; title: 4.3. Gender, water and sanitation; title: 4.4. Inadvertent impacts on hydrological processes; title: 4.5. Large dams and impounding reservoirs; title: 4.6. Tasks:; title: 5. Methods and Techniques for Water Management; title: Integrated Water Resource Management (lWRM); title: Methods of testing the water quality; title: Tasks:; title: Water and economics; title: ‘Value’ of water; title: Global financing of water supply; title: The role of water in public-private-partnership (PPP); title: The role of water in cost recovery; title: Water pricing; title: Governance of water; title: Targeting water valuation; title: Conclusion; title: Tasks:; title: Management for sustainability; title: Rural water supply and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa; title: Operation and maintenance: making water supply and sanitation a sustainable reality; title: Tasks:; title: Other case Studies from within SADC; title: Case study: Water policy in Zambia; title: Case study: Cuvelai Basin in Namibia; title: Tasks:; title: List of References; title: Plates