more than 1.5 million people live in the kathmandu valley. the valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. at the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. to address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of nepal has proposed a project of inter- basin transfer of water from melamchi river located 40 km north-east of the kathmandu valley. the project will cover two distric...

1Department of Environmental Biology and Health, CSIR Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana 2Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Energy and Natural Resources Sunyani, Ghana 3Department of Agriculture, Methodist University, Wenchi Campus, Brong Ahafo, Ghana 4Department of Environmental Resources, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands 5UNESCO Regional Sc...

Objective: Water scarcity is a growing global problem and increasing population pressures, living standards and the growing demand for environmental quality have evoked all the governments to represent better solutions about water resources management. In addition, there are growing political ties for reducing water use in agriculture that follow enough environmental benefits and increase the w...

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he water framework directive of the european union has become a milestone in the water policy for this area. this directive aims to achieve a “good ecological status” of bodies of water in the member states of the european union by 2015. the water framework directive calls for the application of economic principles, economic approaches, tools and instruments. the functions of this economic anal...

Sustainable water management in the supply chain is critical to the long term viability of wine producing organisations. Yet despite its potential importance as a link to convert good intentions of managers into sustainable water use, thus far knowledge concerning how environmental management accounting can assist is largely non-existent. Drawing on contingency theory and new institutional soci...

mitigate known exposures, extrapolate environmental remediation knowledge, and share lessons of effective risk communication from industrialized countries with less developed areas of the world. To facilitate this process, global health concerns resulting from environmental exposures need to be addressed universally. Additionally, the global scientific community must commit to working together ...

The objective of the study is to analyse the actual availability of water resources and its impact on human health deterioration. The following aspects were studied: (a) human activities and environmental deterioration; (b) statistics on the availability and demand of water resources; (c) urban and industry wastes as sources of water resources contamination; and (d) deleterious effect of contam...