Law of interbasin transfers: major interbasin transfers legal aspects - legal study number 7
Title | Law of interbasin transfers: major interbasin transfers legal aspects - legal study number 7 PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph W. Johnson |
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Release | 1971 |
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MAJOR INTERBASIN TRANSFERS - LEGAL ASPECTS.(PRELIMINARY DRAFT).
Title | MAJOR INTERBASIN TRANSFERS - LEGAL ASPECTS.(PRELIMINARY DRAFT). PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Water Commission |
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Pages | 100 |
Release | 1971 |
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Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports
Title | Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports PDF eBook |
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Pages | 980 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Science |
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Government Reports Index
Title | Government Reports Index PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 968 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Engineering |
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Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution
Title | Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution PDF eBook |
Author | Heather L. Beach |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Transboundary pollution |
ISBN | 9789280810387 |
This book provides a comprehensive review of the relevant literature on managing conflicts stemming from the quantity and quality problems of water around the world. So far, few comprehensive and interdisciplinary analyses of such international surface water conflicts have been produced. The literature surveyed indicates that while in many areas there has been extensive research and analysis, there continues to be a need for more studies on the specific situations that lead to conflicts over water and other environment resources. Lateral learning, an attempt to understand the similarities between all conflicts over natural resources, will lend itself to future applications in predicting and preventing these conflicts. A survey of internati9nal watersheds provides some bibliographical and general data collected from over 200 transboundary watersheds. A subset of case studies of the exhaustive list of international watersheds is examined in greater detain. A related effort is a compilation and analysis of relevant water treaties, and the rationale for their implementations.
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Title | Urban Stormwater Management in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 611 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309125391 |
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Dams and Development
Title | Dams and Development PDF eBook |
Author | World Commission on Dams |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 834 |
Release | 2016-05-13 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1134898053 |
By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also disrupted the ecology of half the world's rivers, displaced tens of millions of people from their homes and left nations burdened with debt. Their impacts have inevitably generated growing controversy and conflicts. Resolving their role in meeting water and energy needs is vital for the future and illustrates the complex development challenges that face our societies. The Report of the World Commission on Dams: - is the product of an unprecedented global public policy effort to bring governments, the private sector and civil society together in one process - provides the first comprehensive global and independent review of the performance and impacts of dams - presents a new framework for water and energy resources development - develops an agenda of seven strategic priorities with corresponding criteria and guidelines for future decision-making. Challenging our assumptions, the Commission sets before us the hard, rigorous and clear-eyed evidence of exactly why nations decide to build dams and how dams can affect human, plant and animal life, for better or for worse. Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making is vital reading on the future of dams as well as the changing development context where new voices, choices and options leave little room for a business-as-usual scenario.