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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... urban areas, it is proving difficult to build the infrastructure necessary to deliver water supply and sanitation facilities to service the population, leading to poor health, low quality of life and, in many cases, to social unrest. To ...
... urban areas, it is proving difficult to build the infrastructure necessary to deliver water supply and sanitation facilities to service the population, leading to poor health, low quality of life and, in many cases, to social unrest. To ...
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... urban conditions. It is within this setting that the world's water managers have to manage what is an increasingly scarce resource. The pressures and complexity that they face, in what is often a fast changing setting where the ...
... urban conditions. It is within this setting that the world's water managers have to manage what is an increasingly scarce resource. The pressures and complexity that they face, in what is often a fast changing setting where the ...
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... Urban Mapping Project. WATER : A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Cumulative population ( millions ) served by runoff 6000 5111 ... Urban concentration of water demand adds a High Moderate Low 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Fraction of global runoff Urban ...
... Urban Mapping Project. WATER : A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Cumulative population ( millions ) served by runoff 6000 5111 ... Urban concentration of water demand adds a High Moderate Low 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Fraction of global runoff Urban ...
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... urban areas increased from 29 to 47 percent and it is estimated that by 2010 , more than 50 percent of the global population will be urban dwellers ( UN , 2003 ) . Persons per square km 1-4 1 Part 1. Changing Socio-economic Part 5 ...
... urban areas increased from 29 to 47 percent and it is estimated that by 2010 , more than 50 percent of the global population will be urban dwellers ( UN , 2003 ) . Persons per square km 1-4 1 Part 1. Changing Socio-economic Part 5 ...
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... urban area on a good day, will buy food and water for the family for that day. Very often, the quantity of water needed for good personal and domestic hygiene is too expensive to buy from street water vendors, too far to carry in the ...
... urban area on a good day, will buy food and water for the family for that day. Very often, the quantity of water needed for good personal and domestic hygiene is too expensive to buy from street water vendors, too far to carry in the ...
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