Water Resources Sustainability provides readers with state-of-the-art thinking and the latest information on the globally critical subject of water sustainability.

Features:

• Examples of ancient civilizations that collapsed in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica
• Water sustainability in the American Southwest, linking climate, water management, and growth
• Water resource sustainability through the conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water
• The impact of climate change on water sustainability
• Water supply security issues following 9/11
• Water sustainability issues around the world, including South Korea, the Middle East, Ghana, and Europe
• Privatization, integrated regional development, ecological economics, uncertainties and risk

Contents

1. Introduction: Water Sustainability
2. Water Sustainability: Parallels of Past Civilizations and The Present
3. Water Resources Sustainability: An Ecological-Economics Perspective
4. Managing for Sustainability in Arizona, USA: Linking Climate, Water Management and Growth
5. Optimization Modeling for Sustainable Groundwater and Conjunctive Use Policy Development
6. Multiobjective Analysis for Sustainability - Conjunctive Use Planning of Groundwater and Surface Water
7. Uncertainties and Risks in Water Resources Projects
8. Climate Change Effects and Water Managament Options
9. Water Sustainability: The Potential Impact of Climate Change
10. Water Supply Security: An Introduction
11. Water Resources Sustainability Issues in South Korea
12. Water-Based Sustainable Integrated Regional Development
13. Community Management of Rural Water Systems in Ghana: Postconstruction Support and Water and Sanitation Committees in Brong Ahafo and Volta Regions
14. Is Privatization of Water Utilities Sustainable? Lessons from the European Experience

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