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Jordan-Israel Tensions Threaten to Derail Water-Sharing Project
PDF | English | Irrigated farming and water management Water transportation
Relations between Jordanian and
Israeli governments have deteriorated
over the past months, reaching their
lowest point since the 1994 peace treaty
was signed. Ambassadors have been
recalled, ...Issued on 2018.Uploaded over 6 years agoLast updated over 6 years ago -
U.S. Government Global Water Strategy
PDF | English | Strategic planning Water Conservation Development strategies
There is a growing global water crisis that may increase disease, undermine economic growth,
foster insecurity and state failure, and generally reduce the capacity of countries to advance
priorit...Issued on 2017.Uploaded over 6 years agoLast updated over 6 years ago -
CLIMATE CHANGE AND NUCLEAR POWER 2016
PDF | English | Alternative energy technology Climate change Electric power
Climate change is one of the most important environmental challenges facing the world today. Nuclear power can make a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while deliv...
Issued on 2016.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago -
Smart Water Harvesting Solutions
PDF | English | Agricultural development Water supply and sanitation Water Conservation
This booklet describes a number of creative solutions in situations where ‘there seems to be no water’. It shows practical efforts to ‘create water’, especially in drought prone areas. It does not ...
Issued on 2007.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago -
Water in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
PDF | English | Water supply and sanitation
The Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza is one of the fastest growing in the world and its demand for water is increasing. Access and distribution of water in these territories has bee...
Issued on 2016.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago -
Water Governance in the Arab Region
PDF | English | Governance Water supply and sanitation
Water security requires effective governance attention to water’s vulnerability and value; to good management principles and practices; and to complex and rapidly changing social, economic, politic...
Issued on 2013.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago -
The Issues and Challenges of Reducing Non-Revenue Water
PDF | English | Irrigated farming and water management Water quality Water supply and sanitation
Chronic water losses have been the hallmark of urban Asia’s water management over the decades. This may not have mattered much during an era of assumed plenty. But the rapid growth of Asia’s towns ...
Issued on 2010.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago -
Water in the Arab World: MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES AND INNOVATIONS
PDF | English | Irrigated farming and water management Water supply and sanitation Water supply engineering
This volume is intended to serve as a water handbook. It represents the collective knowledge about water resources management acquired over recent years, both within the World Bank water team and w...
Issued on 2009.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago -
Toward an Analytical Framework for the Governance of Natural Resources: ...
PDF | English | Natural resources Hydrology and water resources Water supply and sanitation
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, t...
Issued on 2016.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago -
Managing groundwater sustainably
PDF | English | Natural resources Natural resources and the environment Water supply and sanitation
Groundwater is the most abundant source of freshwater on Earth The total volume of fresh groundwater stored on Earth is between 8 and 10 million km3, or 96% of non-frozen freshwater. Groundwater pr...
Issued on 2016.Uploaded over 7 years agoLast updated over 7 years ago
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