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Water supply in emergency situations
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ISSN: 18714668 ISBN: 9781402063046 1402063040 9786610957880 1280957883 1402063059 1402063032 Year: 2007 Publisher: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer,

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Water is one of the most essential elements for sustaining life. National, regional, and local authorities throughout the world are responsible to maintain necessary infrastructure and safeguard resources for an orderly uninterrupted supply of good quality, healthy, and safe, water for everyday needs of all the population. These needs, which are growing fast with economic growth, development, and rising prosperity include water for drinking as well as for sanitation, laundry, gardening, recreation, and other domestic uses. An adequate supply of water resources should be safeguarded also for all sectors of the economy and society including agriculture, industry, energy, tourism, ecosystem protection, and more. Drinking water is again becoming a global issue from many perspectives. There are still parts of the globe which lack the necessary water resources for their basic needs, whether in terms of quantity or quality, or both. Demographic growth in several world regions is likely to increase pressures for the development of water resources and further exploitation of existing ones. Changes in production and consumption patterns are expected to aggravate further the pressures on the quantity and quality of water resources across the world. Rising standards of living, intensive agriculture, and new industrial processes lead not only to increasing com- tition for water use and rising costs of water provision, but also to mounting risks.

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Emergency water supply --- Municipal water supply --- Emergency management --- Gestion des situations d'urgence --- Congresses --- Risk management --- Congrès --- Emergency management -- Congresses. --- Emergency water supply -- Congresses. --- Emergency water supply. --- Municipal water supply -- Risk management -- Congresses. --- Environmental Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Cities and towns --- Urban water --- Water, Municipal --- Water, Urban --- Water-supply --- Earth sciences. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental sciences. --- Water pollution. --- Economics. --- Management science. --- Economic policy. --- Earth Sciences. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Economics, general. --- Environmental Management. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. --- R & D/Technology Policy. --- Municipal engineering --- Civil defense --- Disaster relief --- Environmental pollution. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Environmental aspects --- Quantitative business analysis --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Environmental science --- Science --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Fresh water pollution --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Water pollution --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.


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Risk management of water supply and sanitation systems
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ISBN: 904812364X 9786612236280 1282236288 9048123658 9048123631 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer,

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Each year more than 200 million people are affected by floods, tropical storms, droughts, earthquakes, and also operational failures, wars, terrorism, vandalism, and accidents involving hazardous materials. These are part of the wide variety of events that cause death, injury, and significant economic losses for the countries affected. In an environment where natural hazards are present, local actions are decisive in all stages of risk management: in the work of prevention and mitigation, in rehabilitation and reconstruction, and above all in emergency response and the provision of basic services to the affected population. Commitment to systematic vulnerability reduction is crucial to ensure the resilience of communities and populations to the impact of natural and manmade hazards. Current challenges for the water and sanitation sector require an increase in sustainable access to water and sanitation services in residential areas, where natural hazards pose the greatest risk. In settlements located on unstable and risk-prone land there is growing environmental degradation coupled with extreme conditions of poverty that increase vulnerability. The development of local capacity and risk management play vital roles in obtaining sustainability of water and sanitation systems as well as for the communities themselves. Unfortunately water may also represent a potential target for terrorist activity or war conflict and a deliberate contamination of water is a potential public health threat. An approach which considers the needs of communities and institutions is particularly important in urban areas affected by armed conflict. Risk management for large rehabilitation projects has to deal with major changes caused by conflict: damaged or destroyed infrastructure, increased population, corrupt or inefficient water utilities, and impoverished communities. Water supply and sanitation are amongst the first considerations in disaster response. The greatest water-borne risk to health in most emergencies is the transmission of faecal pathogens, due to inadequate sanitation, hygiene and protection of water sources. However, some disasters, including those involving damage to chemical and nuclear industrial installations, or involving volcanic activity, may create acute problems from chemical or radiological water pollution. Sanitation includes safe excreta disposal, drainage of wastewater and rainwater, solid waste disposal and vector control. This book is based on the discussions and papers prepared for the NATO Advanced Research Workshop that took place in Ohrid, Macedonia under the auspices of the NATO Security Through Science Programme and addressed problems Risk management of water supply and sanitation systems impaired by operational failures, natural disasters and war conflicts. The main purpose of the workshop was to critically assess the existing knowledge on Risk management of water supply and sanitation systems, with respect to diverse conditions in participating countries, and promote close co-operation among scientists with different professional experience from different countries. The ARW technical program comprised papers on 4 topics, : (a) Vulnerability of Wastewater and Sanitation Systems, (b) Vulnerability of Drinking Water Systems, (c) Emergency response plans, and (d) Case studies from regions affected by Drinking Water System, Wastewater and Sanitation System failures.

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Emergency management -- Congresses. --- Emergency water supply -- Congresses. --- Environmental Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Water-supply --- Sewage disposal plants --- Risk management --- Effluent treatment plants --- Sewage treatment plants --- Sewage works --- Wastewater treatment plants --- Water pollution control plants --- WPCPs (Sewage disposal) --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Environment. --- Water-supply. --- Civil engineering. --- Ecotoxicology. --- Water pollution. --- Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. --- Water Industry/Water Technologies. --- Civil Engineering. --- Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. --- Engineering --- Public works --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Fresh water pollution --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Water pollution --- Pollution --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. --- Ecotoxicology --- Pollutants --- Environmental health --- Toxicology --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Refuse disposal facilities --- Sewage --- Purification --- Environmental pollution. --- Environmental toxicology. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Measurement --- Monitoring


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Human and water security in Israel and Jordan
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ISBN: 3642292984 3642292992 1283909065 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 3 Publisher: Heidelberg ; New York : Springer,

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The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water security could be derived. The analysis is based on the assumption that from human security perspective common solutions for urgent problems can be derived more easily than out of a perspective of national security. Yet it is acknowledged that according to a new security perspective different security threats are being identified by relevant actors. An empirical analysis of written statements and utterances of the respective security elites establishes the methodological tool for the identification of human security discourses in Israel and Jordan. Subsequently it is estimated how far water is presented as a matter of national security in Israel and Jordan using the theory of securitization.

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Emergency water supply -- Congresses. --- Municipal water supply -- Risk management -- Congresses. --- Water resources development --Government policy -- Middle East. --- Water-supply --Political aspects -- Middle East. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Engineering --- Human security --- Water security --- Israel --- Jordan --- Foreign relations --- Security, Water --- Non-traditional security (Human security) --- NTS (Human security) --- Security, Human --- Yarden --- Jordanien --- Giordania --- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan --- Mamlakah al-Urdunīyah al-Hāshimīyah --- Urdun --- Hashimite Kingdom of the Jordan --- Jordania --- Mamlaka al-Urduniya al-Hashemiyah --- Urdunn --- Izrailʹ --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Yiśraʼel --- Izrael --- Isrāʼīl --- Israele --- Isŭrael --- I-se-lieh --- Medinat Israel --- State of Israel --- ישראל --- מדינת ישראל --- إسرائيل --- دولة إسرائيل --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Ізраіль --- Дзяржава Ізраіль --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ --- Stát Izrael --- Država Izrael --- Ισραήλ --- Израиль --- Государство Израиль --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- イスラエル --- Isuraeru --- 以色列 --- Yiselie --- Environment. --- Environmental management. --- Political theory. --- Political economy. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental policy. --- Water pollution. --- Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Political Economy. --- Political Theory. --- Environment, general. --- Human rights --- Transjordan --- Palestine --- Environmental pollution. --- Environmental sciences. --- International Political Economy. --- Environmental science --- Science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Economic man --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Law and legislation --- Environmental aspects --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Fresh water pollution --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Water pollution --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. --- Government policy --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Ecology

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