Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa write by Msangi Josephine Phillip. This book was released on 2013-08-13. Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a close examination of water scarcity as a developmental challenge facing member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the interventions that have been implemented to combat the situation and the challenges still outstanding. The first chapter paints the backdrop of the water scarcity problem, reviewing historical approaches from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) to the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012), and recapping principles and agreements reached during and after these conferences. Chapter two examines the Southern Africa region’s efforts to combat water scarcity including principles, policies and strategies and the responsibility of each member to implement them. Written by the editor, J.P. Msangi, the chapter describes Namibia’s efforts to ensure management of scarce water. Beyond enacting management and pollution control regulations and raising public awareness, Namibia encourages research to ensure attainment of the requirements of both the SADC Protocol and its own water scarcity management laws. The next three chapters offer Namibia-based case studies on impacts of pollution on water treatment; on the effects of anthropogenic activities on water quality and on the effects of water transfers from dams upstream of Von Bach dam. The final chapter provides detailed summaries of the issues discussed in the book, highlighting conclusions and offering recommendations. Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa synthesizes issues pertinent to the SADC countries as well as to other regions, and offers research that up to now has not been conducted in Namibia.
A Liquid More Valuable Than Gold
A Liquid More Valuable Than Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Liquid More Valuable Than Gold write by Pierre Frühling. This book was released on 1996. A Liquid More Valuable Than Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hydropolitics in the Developing World
Hydropolitics in the Developing World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hydropolitics in the Developing World write by Anthony Turton. This book was released on 2002. Hydropolitics in the Developing World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing contributions by a variety of authors together in one volume is part of an attempt to show that hydropolitics is a growing discipline in its own right. The prevailing definition of hydropolitics is widened to include the elements of scale and range. This is illustrated through a focus on theoretical and legal issues, case studies from Southern Africa and a proposed research agenda. The book is an important addition to the literature on hydropolitics.
Freshwater Challenges of South Africa and its Upper Vaal River
Freshwater Challenges of South Africa and its Upper Vaal River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freshwater Challenges of South Africa and its Upper Vaal River write by Anja du Plessis. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Freshwater Challenges of South Africa and its Upper Vaal River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book promotes better understanding and awareness of South Africa' significant water problems by describing the country's and especially the Upper Vaal River’s water resources. It is a “go-to” book for students, professionals and regular citizens when information is required regarding the country's and more specifically the Upper Vaal River’s freshwater resources. It highlights the major problems and risks which need to be addressed and give a realistic and true representation of the current water affairs.
Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa
Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa write by Salif Diop. This book was released on 2021-02-15. Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of this book is on the key water-related vulnerabilities to climate change in Africa, particularly in its most vulnerable areas, exploring potential management responses to such vulnerabilities. The African countries are particularly exposed and vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, with important impacts on water resources and hydrological systems, water availability, water resource management and sea level variations. Already, under various anthropogenic pressures, the status of water resources in Africa has been changing over the past decades, with decreasing water quality, falling groundwater levels, and variability in rainfall, both in terms of timing and intensity. Climate change will further accelerate the rate of change, affecting the ability of people and societies to respond in a timely manner. It is clear that there is no quick fix to the pressures imposed on water resources by climate change. Increasing the resilience of ecosystems and communities to extreme events such as flooding and drought, and integrating climate change risks and opportunities into development decision-making is indeed a key challenge, as much a technical climate-change one, as a political and developmental challenge. The book, in this regard, intends to contribute to the debate around climate change in relation to water resources management in Africa, and in particular inform policy decisions and actions that will improve governments’ and communities’ ability to manage the challenges of climate change and variability in relation to the aquatic ecosystems that they depend on. The knowledge collected in this book will benefit policy makers, researchers, as well as other stakeholders.
