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With the rapid economic and social development in China, pressure on water resources in the Yellow River is becoming … is imperative to create the perfect water right institution, which plays a key role in improving the efficiency, equity … and sustainability of water use. This article analyzes the problems with the water right institution of the Yellow River …
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increasing water demand, the government is focused almost exclusively on supply management and engineering solutions, which have … resulted in investments of hundreds of millions of Rupees. Environmental, economic and social policies associated with water …, however, no long-term strategies on demand-management, reuse, conservation, and improved water-management practices have been …
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density slicing, Tasseled Cap Transformation and water-specific index. The results obtained using different approaches have … been analysed. Result indicates that a Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) based approach produced best results …
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As domestic water managers, the strategic need of women has been identified as having access to domestic water sources … improved water supply systems in different parts of the developing world. While the need of women as domestic water managers … actually performed within the context of local communities where domestic water management activities are built upon the users …
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Public or stakeholder participation in planning and management of natural resources is now widely practiced, but means different things in different contexts. Examples of recent participation in floodplain management in Bangladesh and England are reviewed in the national policy context....
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Water is a very crucial natural resource in the world and because of its selective availability among different … rich in water and others poor. However, the common issue for all these countries is how to improve water resources … management. NOSTRUM-DSS [Network on Governance, Science and Technology for Sustainable Water Resources Management in the …
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It is increasingly clear that there is a need to assist National Hydrological Agencies in Africa to improve their hydrometric data collection capabilities and at the same time to halt the decline in hydrometric standards. This has to be achieved in a cost-effective and sustainable way and, at...
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In the context of the world-wide trend towards the privatisation of water supplies, this article uses institutional … economics to examine the incentives for English and Australian water providers to implement strategies to reduce household water … consumption. The authors hypothesise that the effective marketing of reduced domestic water consumption is likely to be …
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Water availability in adequate quantities and qualities is a fundamental requirement for tourism. In the Mediterranean …, one of the world’s leading tourist destinations, water availability is subject to modest and erratic precipitation figures … to new technologies such as desalination or increasing efficiency in water use. A third and yet little explored …
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policy agenda. In this paper we analyze how the fast introduction process of GIS-based instruments in water management and … show the important contribution of GIS to the water and flood issue in current spatial planning and policy development in …
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