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This book addresses the enormous global challenge of providing balanced and sustainable solutions to urgent water problems. The author explores our dependence on access to safe water and other water-related services and how driving forces of the human and natural worlds are degrading this access. The greatest challenges involve conflicts between people and interest groups across all countries, as well as the economic and political difficulties in finding solutions through infrastructure development. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to Integrated Water Resources Management or IWRM, which provides a set of tools for policy development, planning and organization, assessment, systems analysis, finance, and regulation. The author suggests that IWRM is challenging because of the human element, but that no other process can reconcile the conflicting agendas involved with water management. The broad range of topics covered here, as well as 25 case summaries, will be of interest to scientists, engineers, practitioners, and advanced level students interested in the integrated management of water as a resource. Neil S. Grigg is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, USA, where he teaches a course on water resources management. He has also held positions as a department head, government environmental official, and consulting engineer, as well as military officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Water-supply. --- Water-supply --- Water resources development --- Management. --- Government policy --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water utilities --- Environmental Geography. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Environmental geography. --- Environmental management. --- Hydrology. --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Geography

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Water utilities --- Water-supply --- Services des eaux --- États-Unis --- Approvisionnement en eau --- Finance. --- Finances.

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"Water Resources Management is the process of planning, developing, and managing water resources, in terms of both water quantity and quality, across all water uses. It includes the institutions, infrastructure, incentives, and information systems that support and guide water management. Water resources management seeks to harness the benefits of water by ensuring there is sufficient water of adequate quality for drinking water and sanitation services, food production, energy generation, inland water transport, and water-based recreational, as well as sustaining healthy water-dependent ecosystems and protecting the aesthetic and spiritual values of lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Water resource management also entails managing water-related risks, including floods, drought, and contamination. The complexity of relationships between water and households, economies, and ecosystems, requires integrated management that accounts for the synergies and tradeoffs of water's great number uses and values"

Water-supply. --- Water resources development. --- Water quality management. --- Ressources en eau. --- Gestion des ressources en eau. --- Eau --- Qualité --- Gestion.

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This book addresses the enormous global challenge of providing balanced and sustainable solutions to urgent water problems. The author explores our dependence on access to safe water and other water-related services and how driving forces of the human and natural worlds are degrading this access. The greatest challenges involve conflicts between people and interest groups across all countries, as well as the economic and political difficulties in finding solutions through infrastructure development. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to Integrated Water Resources Management or IWRM, which provides a set of tools for policy development, planning and organization, assessment, systems analysis, finance, and regulation. The author suggests that IWRM is challenging because of the human element, but that no other process can reconcile the conflicting agendas involved with water management. The broad range of topics covered here, as well as 25 case summaries, will be of interest to scientists, engineers, practitioners, and advanced level students interested in the integrated management of water as a resource. Neil S. Grigg is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, USA, where he teaches a course on water resources management. He has also held positions as a department head, government environmental official, and consulting engineer, as well as military officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Hydrosphere --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Geography --- hydrologie --- waterbehandeling --- waterverontreiniging --- milieubeleid --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- geografie

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Water utilities. --- Labor supply. --- Organizational learning. --- Knowledge management.