| Water Quality Management in the Americas 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Biswas, Asit K. (Editor), Tortajada, Cecilia (Editor), Braga, Benedito (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540242902 ISBN-13: 9783540242901 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: The book contains several in-depth case studies which comprehensively analyze the present status of water quality management practices at country and state levels, especially in terms of their effectiveness and overall impacts. The objective is to identify opportunities, shortcomings, and constraints that currently exist. The analyses include the mechanisms and instruments that have succeeded in improving water quality, at which locations, for what reasons, and how whatever constraints and deficiencies that exist at present can be overcome in the future in a cost-effective and timely manner. Management instruments that are not working as they were initially expected were also identified, as well the reasons as to why others are not working, and what policy actions should be taken to improve the current situation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 628.168 |
| Series: Water Resources Development and Management |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.44" W x 9.39" (1.44 lbs) 298 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades. While the mag- tude and the extent of the global water scarcity problems of the future should not be underestimated, a serious analysis of the current trends indicate that the main water crisis in the coming years is most likely to stem primarily from water quality deterioration and lack of investment funds, rather than from physical water scar- ties per se, as is widely expected at present. In spite of the seriousness of continuing water quality deterioration in most countries of the world, water quality management continues to be a somewhat - glected issue in the international water community. Even the magnitudes and - tents of the water quality problems are not reliably known in many developed countries and in nearly all developing ones. Accordingly, in order to assess the current situation in water quality management in the Americas, and to discuss the alternatives available to improve the existing and future water quality conditions in a cost-effective and timely manner, the Third World Centre for Water M- agement in Mexico, the National Water Agency in Brazil (Agência Nacional de Águas), and the Inter-American Development Bank organised a workshop on "Water Quality Management for the Americas," in Fortaleza, Brazil, 12-13 April 2004. |