Water: A Shared ResponsibilityUN-HABITAT, 2006 - 584 pages A joint undertaking of the 24 UN agencies comprising UN-Water, and in partnership with governments and other entities concerned with freshwater issues, this volume, covering as it does all regions and most countries of the world, provides an up-to-date global overview of the state and uses of freshwater, critical water-related problems, and societies coping mechanisms. Drawing on an extensive database, expert analysis, case studies, and hundreds of graphic elements, it is the most comprehensive undertaking to date of freshwater assessment, providing a mechanism for monitoring changes in the resource and its management and progress towards achieving development targets, particularly the Millennium Development Goals. Building on the conclusions of the first United Nations World Water Development Report, Water for People, Water for Life, the 2006 Report confirms the ongoing, serious and growing water crisis, essentially a crisis of governance, and points to a prevalent lack of capacity and knowledge base as todays primary obstacles to achieving the necessary levels of water governance. This volume proposes a more integrated vision of water resources management to respond to changing environmental and socio-economic conditions.--Publisher's description. |
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... rivers flow from one country to another. The building of cooperative upstream-downstream relationships is becoming increasingly important with close to half of the world's people living in river basins or above aquifers that cross ...
... rivers flow from one country to another. The building of cooperative upstream-downstream relationships is becoming increasingly important with close to half of the world's people living in river basins or above aquifers that cross ...
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... river basins and watersheds . They may overlap adjacent basins , or several administrative units may share a basin . Some communities undergoing rapid socio - economic development involving significant upward and regional social ...
... river basins and watersheds . They may overlap adjacent basins , or several administrative units may share a basin . Some communities undergoing rapid socio - economic development involving significant upward and regional social ...
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... river basins . Expanding water use productivity in both rainfed and irrigated croplands has to be done by individual farmers , irrigation managers and water user associations . Taking precautions at household level to prevent water ...
... river basins . Expanding water use productivity in both rainfed and irrigated croplands has to be done by individual farmers , irrigation managers and water user associations . Taking precautions at household level to prevent water ...
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... basins , make cooperation a necessity cooperation not only in the ... River Basin , homogeneous implementation of the Water Framework Directive ... River Basin , the production of hydropower is a regional priority ( over 90 percent of all ...
... basins , make cooperation a necessity cooperation not only in the ... River Basin , homogeneous implementation of the Water Framework Directive ... River Basin , the production of hydropower is a regional priority ( over 90 percent of all ...
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... basin level also extends to the management of river basins and groundwater aquifers shared between sovereign states . The increased water cooperation between nations will require building mutual trust as well as long - term commitments ...
... basin level also extends to the management of river basins and groundwater aquifers shared between sovereign states . The increased water cooperation between nations will require building mutual trust as well as long - term commitments ...
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