| Water Quality Management in the Americas Contributor(s): Biswas, Asit K. (Editor), Tortajada, Cecilia (Editor), Braga, Benedito (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642063543 ISBN-13: 9783642063541 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology - Science | Earth Sciences - Hydrology - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 628.168 |
| Series: Water Resources Development and Management |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.98 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. |