The paper examines the impact of development activities on water pollution in Malaysia. Hence, the main objective of … this paper is not just to examine the trends of development-induced water pollution around the region of the country but to … relationship between problems introduced due to technology employed in water pollution control and governmental policy measures. It …

In the 1992 Rio World Summit on Environment and Development/UNCED), water resources are indicated to remain at the core … philosophical concept and thus difficult to measure. Yet, we need to describe it on rather precise terms to assess whether our water … pursued in evaluating how effective our water management plans are in achieving sustainability. On the other hand, actual case …

The water footprint shows the extent of water use in relation to consumption of people. The water footprint of a … country is defined as the volume of water needed for the production of the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of … the country. The internal water footprint is the volume of water used from domestic water resources; the external water …

indicator has been successfully applied in the aquifers located in southern Jaen province (South Spain) belonging to the Water … System SE4-Jaén Water Supply. The results probe the high utility of the indicator, especially in regards to the public …

aim of this paper is the implementation of a water allocation tool based on representative indicators characterizing the …Border areas comprise inevitably problematic fields especially when the countries are bound to share common water … management of shared water resources. Often a starting point of the conflict resolution is the water allocation scheme between …

A new approach is developed for assessing water security status: the Water Security Status Indicators (WSSI) assessment … integrates variables pertaining to water quality and water quantity as they relate to aquatic ecosystems and human health. Fourth …, the method provides concrete outputs for incorporation into water decision-making processes. In this paper, we document …

The recent international agreement to implement principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) as a means … to overcome the current world water crisis has brought about the need to measure countries’ progress towards a new way of … managing water. Several governmental and nongovernmental international organizations have taken up this challenge using …

of infrastructures and climate change. Several reliability indicators, focusing on hydraulic aspects rather than water … quantitative indicators at nodal and network level, and define novel indicators to consider water quality aspects. These indicators …Reliability of water distribution networks (WDNs) has received much attention in recent years due to progressive aging …

-criteria analysis (SMCA) techniques in a Geographic Information System (GIS). A GIS database of indicators for the evaluation of hazard … indicators were combined to obtain the final flood risk index map. Using the flood risk index, the study area was classified into …

To meet sustainability challenges, regional water management and planning require approaches that assess the land … distribution and water uptake. This paper presents the initial steps of SPACSS development by scientists and agricultural experts … to reduce irrigation). SPACSS can represent a wide range of land-use scenarios and aggregate impact indicators at several …