The raison d’être of international water law is that it provides States with a toolkit to equip them deal complex problems relating the joint use and sustainable management transboundary freshwater resources. principle equitable reasonable utilization one such tool in this toolkit. When applying specific watercourse, sharing watercourse must decide which uses are more important than others. But...

abstract the effect of land use type on soil functioning within an ecosystem can be assessed and monitored using soil quality attributes. such studies, which are carried out to create a balance between the biological production and the maintenance and improvement of land resource quality, provide a framework for land degradation control and also for identification of sustainable management. in ...

The paper presents the case study of the current formation of a Brazilian pit lake from an iron ore mining activity. The water used for the filling of the lake comes from rain, ground water and the complementary pumpage from a close river. At its final stage, which will be reached around year 2018, Lake Aguas Claras will have a surface area of 0.67 km2 and the depth of 234 m, which will make it...

This study evaluates the feasibility of an emerging technology – a concentrated solar multi-effect distiller (CSMED) to supply high quality water for beneficial use at Eromanga, which is located in remote and dry region Australia. Produced from Kenmore oil field only reliable source Eromanga has been approved livestock watering. The process utilises drive distiller, making ideal Australian outb...