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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... users for water, or pushed out onto land dependent totally on what may be, with growing climate variability, increasingly erratic rainfall. Deep well water abstractions by richer farmers and water- using industries can lower water ...
... users for water, or pushed out onto land dependent totally on what may be, with growing climate variability, increasingly erratic rainfall. Deep well water abstractions by richer farmers and water- using industries can lower water ...
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... Users Round Media Private Interests Table Step 9 : Refine Step 3 : Agree on and prioritize 1. goals 2. strategy 3. targets 4. criteria 5. indicators Scientific Community NGOs Step 8 : Review results Other Source : Derived from Gutrich ...
... Users Round Media Private Interests Table Step 9 : Refine Step 3 : Agree on and prioritize 1. goals 2. strategy 3. targets 4. criteria 5. indicators Scientific Community NGOs Step 8 : Review results Other Source : Derived from Gutrich ...
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... user groups , thereby promoting the principle of subsidiarity . Devolution or decentralization of power from national governments and agencies to regional and / or local government authorities and organizations - including ...
... user groups , thereby promoting the principle of subsidiarity . Devolution or decentralization of power from national governments and agencies to regional and / or local government authorities and organizations - including ...
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... users have to be very sensitive to ecosystem considerations to ensure sustainability. Skills will have to be developed to achieve all of this – to negotiate trade-offs and define ecological bottom lines and sustainability, based on a ...
... users have to be very sensitive to ecosystem considerations to ensure sustainability. Skills will have to be developed to achieve all of this – to negotiate trade-offs and define ecological bottom lines and sustainability, based on a ...
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... users , is a challenge facing watersheds worldwide . Decisions on water allocations have to be made at different scales and a wide range of transboundary and other regulatory instruments and water and pollution management techniques ...
... users , is a challenge facing watersheds worldwide . Decisions on water allocations have to be made at different scales and a wide range of transboundary and other regulatory instruments and water and pollution management techniques ...
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