Managing western water shortages

ASHP guidelines on managing drug product shortages.

Short-term back orders and long-term unavailability of drug products have been a challenge to pharmacy managers for many years. Nevertheless, these drug product shortages have been increasing in frequency and severity since the late 1990s. The causes are varied and involve all segments of the “supply chain.” Changes in policies and practices among these segments individually and collectively co...

World gears up to water shortages

Earlier this year, Sydney officially opened its new water desalination plant, the largest so far in Australia and driven by renewable wind power. It is the third to open in the country but will soon be overtaken by further new desalination plants. Australia's response to the growing demand for water and the increasing scarcity and unpredictability of conventional supplies is being echoed around...

Modelling irrigation scheduling to analyse water management at farm level, during water shortages

The area under irrigated corn has significantly increased in the Charente river basin during the last 10 years. Corn water requirements are maximum in the summer, the period with low water flows and highest environmental vulnerability. Periods of water shortage during which irrigation is temporarily forbidden occur frequently. To reduce water demand, specific water saving policies are required....

Managing Scarce Water Resources – China

The Evolving Western Water Markets

Expanding population and environmental protection the world over are placing additional demands on existing water supplies. Meeting these demands by traditional structural supply augmentation is dogged by increasing environmental and fiscal costs, which leave excess water demand to be met largely by conservation and reallocation of existing supplies. Water trading clearly has a role in realloca...