Water Quality Management
Present Situations, Challenges and Future Perspectives
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Water Quality Management
Present Situations, Challenges and Future Perspectives
About this book
The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less attention than water quantity. Commendable progress has been made by the developed world to control point sources of pollution, but commensurate progress in reducing non-point sources has not been made. In the third world countries both point and non-point sources of pollution are becoming increasingly a serious concern. Already, nearly all water bodies in such countries near and around urban centres have been severely polluted, with very high health and environmental costs.
The book assesses the current status of water quality management in both developed and developing worlds, as well as analysing the effectiveness of economic instruments and legal and institutional frameworks to control water contamination. It outlines the importance of building up social and political awareness to reverse the trend of continuing water quality deterioration, which is likely to be a most challenging task in the coming years.
This book was published as a special issue of International Journal of Water Resources Development.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Foreword: Water Quality, the Challenge of the Future
- Table of Contents
- 1. Water Quality Management: An Introductory Framework
- 2. Water—A Reflection of Land Use: Understanding of Water Pathways and Quality Genesis
- 3. Impact of Agriculture on Water Pollution in OECD Countries: Recent Trends and Future Prospects
- 4. Regulating Nonpoint Source Water Pollution in a Federal Government: Four Case Studies
- 5. Introduction to Environmental and Economic Consequences of Hypoxia
- 6. Financing Water Quality Management
- 7. Water Governance in Aragon
- 8. Water Management in the Ebro River Basin: An Approach to the 2010–15 Hydrological Plan
- 9. Water Quality in Zaragoza
- 10. Water Quality Management in China: The Case of the Huai River Basin
- 11. Water Quality Management in Egypt
- 12. A New Mindset for Integrated Water Quality Management for South Africa
- 13. Water Quality and Health in Poor Urban Areas of Latin America
- 14. Conceptual Framework for Protecting Groundwater Quality
- 15. Evolution of Water Management in Mexico
- 16. Agriculture and Water Pollution: Farmers’ Perceptions in Central Mexico
- Index