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Water has always been a source of risks and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet rapidly changing … socioeconomic, political, and environmental conditions make water security a different, and more urgent, challenge than ever before …. This report shows that achieving water security means much more than coping with water scarcity. It means managing water …
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Global warming is expected to affect Lebanon heavily, in particular through increased flooding and creation of desert areas as the country is located near desert regions (El-Fadel, Jamali and Khorbotly 2002). The country is expected to witness a decrease in precipitation and an increase in...
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significant challenges, which faces the Jordanian water security. Where Israel expands in its policy and ideology everyday its … hydro-hegemony over the Jordanian waters. Hence, its acts result in negative consequences on the Jordanian water and food … analysis approach to handle the subject matter. Given the influence of water on the development, Jordan, as an organic or a …
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Recent analyses of the evolution and structure of trade in virtual water revealed that the number of trade connections … and volume of virtual water trade have more than doubled over the past two decades, and that developed countries … increasingly draw on the rest of the world to alleviate the pressure on their domestic water resources. Our work builds on these …
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Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …
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Global warming, while increasing human demand for water, is reducing water availability by reducing runoff flows and … the effective amount of water between seasons, making water scarcity a growing problem globally. Water management plays an … important role in mitigating global warming, improving the water cycle, reducing carbon emissions, and providing clean energy …
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In rural and peri‑urban areas of Central America, community water organizations (CWOs) provide water to 60 % of the … environmental, climatic, and institutional factors explaining the adoption of volumetric pricing from these water providers and its … whether volumetric pricing affects the service water delivery in a rural setting, drawing on a random sample of cross …
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