Water

Water governance and water resource management strategies to mitigate the risk of floods and drought and improve water conservation and water quality.

Latest Water additions in the Knowledge Base

The Sri Lanka Disaster Management Center (DMC) in collaboration with UNDP and with the technical support of the Department of Agrarian Development has commenced a project for the development of the small tank (Cascade) system for reducing the effect of drought in North Western Province...
Sri Lanka - government
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'The disaster-risk-reduction properties of wetlands place them amongst the most precious of our ecosystems' said Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day...
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

EEA report no. 8/2009:

This report analyses the risks that climate change presents to the water supply of the Alps, together with quality, needs identification, constraints, opportunities, policy levers and options for adaptation. It extracts policy

This book outlines the likely consequences of climate change for different parts of Africa and different sectors. Chapter 3 covers how 'global warming' affects water availability, with some areas becoming much drier and others considerably wetter. It

This study argues that ecological watershed management has the potential to be a critical climate change adaptation strategy in Manitoba, a region of Canada that is projected to experience even more variable rainfall extremes. The book presents the case

This report provides lessons learned on mainstreaming the implementation of Environmentally Sound Technology (EST) pilot projects. Section 4 on disaster management specifically addresses environmental management as a critical issue in order to prevent

This book gives expert guidance on all issues regarding security and emergency preparedness and response of water supply infrastructures. It addresses vulnerability assessment, revised procedures to improve response to emergencies, and premises security

The National Framework for Climate Change Science (the Framework) identifies national climate change science priorities for the coming decade and sets out ways to harness the full science capacity to address them. The focus of the Framework is fundamental

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