People in developing countries are generally not aware of the impacts their activities on the land have on groundwater quality. Read more...
This publication contains the proceedings of the Regional Seminar on Water Management in Urban Areas held at Bangkok from 22 to 26 March 1993. The... Read more...
This document explains how environmental preconditions, like climate and geography, limit human access to water; and how human activities affect the... Read more...
As water development expands and the resource becomes scarcer, the construction and management of water projects become less a means of adding to... Read more...
The failure to treat water as a scarce resource is, according to the author, one of the main causes of today's international water crisis. Demand... Read more...
The book starts with the suggestion that the world might soon face a water crisis similar to the energy crisis in the 1970s. Too much water is used... Read more...
This document introduces water harvesting for planners, decision makers and project managers. Water harvesting has particular potential in rural... Read more...
In response to the recognition of a need for groundwater quality monitoring in Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP carried out a regional groundwater survey... Read more...
The Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team (NEST) has prepared this book on the present state of the environment in Nigeria as a basis for further... Read more...