Book Chapters

June 22, 2014 As population has grown, and as human needs have increased and expectations have changed, the natural environment that supports their growth has deteriorated, and the challenges faced by governments and societies have become more complex. In a … Read More

January 1, 2014 Water management in much of the world is at a critical juncture. Even when it has to fulfil an essential role in promoting development and reducing poverty at the national and sub-national levels, water is often scarce, … Read More

January 1, 2014 India lacks energy. In 2011, almost 300 million people —25 per cent of the country’s population— had no access to electricity. Even 65 years after independence, only nine states —Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa, Delhi, Haryana, Kerala, … Read More

January 1, 2012 Without any doubt, the High Aswan Dam in Egypt has been the most well-known dam in the world in the past fi ve decades. From Argentina to Australia and from Tokyo to Timbuktu, professionals in water management … Read More

January 1, 2012 From time immemorial, human beings have settled in the fertile plains of major rivers like the Nile in Africa, Euphrates-Tigris in Mesopotamia, and the Indo-Gangetic plain in the Indian subcontinent. In these areas, floods and droughts had … Read More

January 1, 2012 The Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey has historically been a plateau with low productivity. Although rich in water, land and human resources, the region has lagged behind the rest of the country in terms of development. The … Read More

June 1, 2010 This chapter describes the implications of global change for water and food security, focusing on the precarious situation of the poor in global change processes. While overall economic growth is reaching an increasing number of poor, and … Read More

January 1, 2009 None of the water-related global megaconferences has ever been evaluated independently, objectively and comprehensively. Their impacts and cost-effectiveness are now basically unknown, even though their costs have generally escalated very rapidly with each succeeding event. It should, … Read More

January 1, 2009 As the human population has grown, the global food requirements have increased as well and with it the requirement to water needed to produce the necessary food. At present, most of the global water use is accounted … Read More