urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and … consumption process, as well as the ability of the water system to absorb and neutralize the waste byproducts deposited into it …. Water shortages are most severe in the north of the country, where surface water diversion is excessive and groundwater is …

vulnerability of the economy to these shocks. It helps clarify linkages between the country's economic performance and its water … resources endowment and management. It then uses this analysis to recommend both water resource strategies and economic and …-wide effects of water shocks. This report finds that unmitigated hydrological variability currently costs the economy over one …

Executive summary -- Water security -- Profiling water security in the Middle East and North Africa -- The water …

geospatial planning for small hydropower. It is conducted in close coordination with the Ministry of Energy, the Electricity …

The Ghazi-Barotha Hydropower Project is a major run-of-river power project designed to meet the acute shortage of power … in Pakistan. It is being implemented by the Water and Power Development Authority of Pakistan (WAPDA). The project …

After a period of stagnation, the story of hydropower infrastructure is changing. Emerging global dynamics are … recasting the role and value of hydropower in development, recognizing its potential contribution to a complex web of energy … security, water security and regional development and integration. In addition to bringing electricity to the 1.6 billion …

by developing its considerable hydropower potential, but the regulatory process that governs the approval of new … reasons, has created a shortage of investment in otherwise viable hydropower projects in favor of less efficient and more …

communities in hydropower projects. There has been a wide array of approaches in the past two decades that all have in common the … hydropower projects and that can be tailored, at the same time, to the particular circumstances and characteristics of individual … projects. This initiative is based on the hypothesis that hydropower projects planned in environmentally and socially …