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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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anderen Seite drohen sie, arme Bevölkerungsgruppen von der Nutzung lebenswichtiger Güter wie Wasser auszuschließen. Mit diesem … off poor sections of the population from the use of vital goods, such as water. This paper deals with this alleged …
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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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increasingly draw on the rest of the world to alleviate the pressure on their domestic water resources. Our work builds on these …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 …
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It is becoming increasingly important to put freshwater issues in a global context. Local water depletion and pollution … are often closely tied to the structure of the global economy. With increasing trade between nations and continents, water … water in virtual form, where virtual water is understood as the volume of water that has been used to produce a commodity …
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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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Germany is one of the five largest consumer markets in the world. Given that both supply chains and water consumption … in Germany undeniably has a major impact on global water consumption. This paper aims to determine Germany's global … consumption-induced water consumption (hereinafter water consumption), with a particular focus on the worldwide origin of the …
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