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This report attempts to fill that gap for two of the most important water-related issues facing the effects of climate … variability and the steady degradation of the nation's water resources. The study reported here concluded that the El Ni??o-La Ni …??o-induced floods, this cost primarily arises from destruction of infrastructure such as roads, water supply infrastructure, and pipe …
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Climate and water supply have always been intimately connected. As a result, a given society's water law generally … reflects climatic realities, including its most common climate disasters. In the future, however, water-related climate … of climate change are impacts on water supply, although those impacts will vary from region to region. This chapter …
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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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With time there has been an unpredictable climate change affecting the requirement of water for agriculture. Survival … of agriculture has become a matter of concern with an efficient management of water. The aim of the chapter is to design … a conceptual framework in sustaining water for agriculture in the era of climate change. The authors in the present …
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water resources development and management in Kenya. It is part of the World Bank's policy dialogue on water resources …'s water resources. The 1997-2000 El Niño-La Niña episodes cost the country Ksh 290 billion, about 14 percent of GDP …
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