Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy
- ISBN-10
- 0080543685
- ISBN-13
- 9780080543680
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 398
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-12-09
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Authors
- A.S. Alsharhan, W.W. Wood
Description
Many countries in the world have made great efforts, to remedy the water shortage, by providing financial and technical backing, for water desalination, treatment of wastewater and improved management and conservation techniques. Water ministries, universities and research centres have supported scientific research, and applied the most recent technologies, in search of new and alternative water supplies. Laws have been promulgated, economic and public relation campaigns developed, to promote and encourage the practice of efficient water use and the conservation of this scarce commodity. This book covers water resources and management and provides a new vision of water resources management, water conservation and legislations, water law, and modern techniques of water resources investigation.
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