Integrated water resources management: evolution, prospects and future challenges
This paper analyzes the evolution of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at
international conferences over the past three decades and addresses the prospects of IWRM in resolving
the current water crisis. It also identifies seven crucial challenges to implementing IWRM. Our rivers and
aquifers are the life-blood of the planet. To achieve sustainable development, we m
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Ramsar Convention
The Strategic Plan is intended to provide guidance, particularly to the Contracting Parties but also to the Standing Committee, the Secretariat, the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP), the regional initiatives, and the International Organization Partners (IOPs), as well as the Convention’s many other collaborators, on how they should focus their efforts for implementing the Convention o ... read more >>
Membrane filtration for reuse waters
A paper Siemens put together about membrane filtration of waste waters for reuse. Shows projections of water use and several different membrane filtration techniques and the associated energy use. ... read more >>
Groundwater Pumping a Major Cause of Declining Water Storage in the Middle East
The Tigris and Euphrates river basins, at the heart of the Fertile Crescent, lost enough fresh water between 2003 and 2009 to fill the Dead Sea, according to a study that used NASA satellite data to measure hydrological changes in parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and western Iran. One-fifth of the net water loss was attributed to dry soils and a withered snowpack, the study found. Evaporation from l ... read more >>
Waste Dump at the End of the World: Ecologists Propose Managing Strategies to Protect the Antarctic
On their mission to the moon in 1969 the Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin created arguably the most famous footprints ever. Since the time the astronauts of the Apollo 11 Mission stepped onto the surface of our satellite their footprints remain almost unchanged. And as no breath of wind will ever be able to blow them away they will be visible forever. Not quite so old but equally 'immorta ... read more >>
Will the green deal cut UK households energy bills?
The 'green deal' to tackle household energy bills, hailed by the government as the 'most ambitious home improvement programme since the second world war', is now open. Adam Vaughan questions whether it will achieve the government's goal of transforming the energy efficiency of 14m homes. ... read more >>
Ethiopia: In Unusual Rebuke, Saudi Arabia Accuses Ethiopia of Posing Threats to Sudan and Egypt
A senior Saudi Arabian official unleashed a barrage of attack against Ethiopia saying that the Horn of Africa nation is posing a threat to the Nile water rights of Egypt and Sudan. ... read more >>
The Nile: water conflicts
From its major source at Lake Victoria in east-central Africa, the White Nile flows north through Uganda and crosses the border into Sudan. After a journey of several thousand kilometers, and in the dusty heat of Khartoum it eventually meets the Blue Nile which, by that time, has made the precipitous descent from the Ethiopian highlands. From the confluence of the White and Blue Nile, the river t ... read more >>
Glossary of Water Resource Terms
"Glossary of Water Resource Terms (The Edward’s Aquifer Website / Gregg Eckhardt)". ... read more >>
Water Scarcity and Conflict at the Ethiopia-Kenya Border
Eight million semi-nomadic people in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya depend on the waters of Lake Turkana for their livelihoods. Lake Turkana gets 90% of its water from the Omo River, but in recent years, the Lake has been receding into Kenya. Factor in Ethiopia‘s decision to build upstream dams, diverting water from the Omo River northward, away from the Ethiopia-Kenya border. ... read more >>
