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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Water Crisis"”.
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Corporate Governance and Water Crisis: A Study of Water Boards in South Africa
… corporate governance outrages, global financial crisis in 2007 to 2008 and introduction of best code of practice for corporate governance globally and locally. The relationship between corporate governance and the water issue as a governance crisis is a topic of debate despite the wealth of study …
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Fluid dynamics : politics and social struggle in São Paulo's water crisis (2014-2015)
… and main economic center, and precipitated a water supply crisis. As water availability became increasingly strained during 2014, myriad collective action efforts by civil society actors sprung up in the city. My thesis explores this social mobilization around Sao Paulo's supply crisis as a …
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Binding civil and civic infrastructure : the need for transparency and accountability in Baltimore's water crisis
… for essential infrastructure upgrades, water and wastewater utilities have increasingly relied on customer revenue to fill funding gaps. This has led most recently to "water crises" in cities such as Baltimore and Detroit, where residents who cannot afford to pay increasing rates have …
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Addressing the ‘water crisis’: the complementary roles of water governance and the human right to water
There has been talk of countries facing water "crises" and even predictions of a "global water crisis", for some years now. The effects of climate change, population growth, and ever higher levels of development are being felt around the world. Even in the United Kingdom, generally considered to …
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Assessing the Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Water Usage During and Following a Water Crisis
The global frequency and severity of water scarcity events are increasing, making it necessary to reduce human demand for available water supplies. This mixed-methods research used the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to investigate determinants of water usage during and after a water crisis. 89 …
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Land Material Geometry: Spline Construction with Invasive Species in a time of Water Crisis in the Colorado River Basin
… desert river systems that exacerbate strains on water availability, thus, removing the plant, yet maintaining its sequestered carbon as construction material. Active bending of this raw natural timber allows for a low tech means to approximate structural geometry for adobe construction.
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How has environmental violence been experienced during the Cape Town water crisis using the Newlands Spring as a case-study
… and physical threat of running out of water. The water crisis continues to be an extremely complex threat with many complicated aspects to the drought, which resulted in residents of Cape Town reacting with intensity to this danger. The crisis is an example of how ignoring environmental …
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A flood of communications in a drought: a frame analysis of the City of Cape Town's communications during the 2017-2018 water crisis
… on governmental management authorities to ensure water supply. Recently, a three year drought from 2015 to 2018 caused a major water shortage, threatening water supply to the city. In response, the City engaged in multiple mitigation efforts, amongst which was a major communications campaign to …
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Barriers and Enablers of Water Conservation in Formal Residential Households in Cape Town, South Africa
… population must share increasing scarcity of water, exacerbated by climate change. Thus, climate change and urbanization has contributed to the emergence of more water-stressed cities. This thesis is concerned with water conservation as a method of adaptation to an urban water crisis. It looks …
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Pakistan, India and the Indus River Basin
<p>Water is a fundamental need of all living things. The right to clean water is classified as a human right under United Nations Resolution 64/292.As such it is the responsibility of governments to ensure its citizens are not deprived of this essential resource. In doing so, effective water …
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Water Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Mali
… world is experiencing the first effects of the water crisis and its importance will become more prevalent in the next few decades. In this study, the case is made that there are steps that can be taken that can improve the standard of living for people by addressing the water needs of both rural …
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Living With Crisis: Family, Labor, and Environment in Flint, Michigan
… levels of lead and bacteria in the drinking water supply and forced to grapple with long-term harm to their health and water infrastructure. The Flint water crisis, as this event became known, transpired in a majority Black municipality in the American midwestern Rust Belt. Flint has a long …
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Framing Flint : comparing mainstream and black newspaper coverage in the wake of environmental racism.
Flint, Michigan, has been in a water crisis for four years now after the predominately black community was lead-poisoned following the decisions of government officials they should have been able to trust. The city's insistence on using polluted river water along with a history of environmental …
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Bad Water, Dirty Politics: Contrasting Governmental Responses to Two U.S. Water Crises
Two of the United States's most destructive water crises, separated by nearly twenty years, occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1993 and Flint, Michigan in 2014. This thesis compares and contrasts the two crises, focusing specifically on the differences in local governmental response to each …
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Sustainability Leadership: My Learning Journey
… modern era. I have studied the Earth’s dwindling water supply and seen how some of the world’s largest cities have dealt with a water crisis. After experiencing a water crisis in my own home, I evaluated the response, applied Richter’s principles for sustainable water management, and have seen …
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The utilisation of spatial planning in improving urban water culture: a case study of Oranjezicht, Cape Town
… can exist, live, survive or thrive without water. Water is the basis of life for all living organisms and the centre of life for all societies. The global attitude around water has become territorial as it encompasses an intricate link to the development of nations. Centralising main water …
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Designing user-centered IoT solutions for small-scale and mid-scale farmers
The UN predicts that by the year 2030, the global water demand will outstrip supply by 40%. In face of the global water crisis, it is crucial to increase irrigation efficiency in agriculture, which currently consumes 70% of the global freshwater supply. Studies have shown that using precision …
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Pursuing the common good : overcoming barriers to collective action through transboundary water negotiation along the Blue Nile River
We are headed towards a global water crisis. While technological advancements may help reduce this gap, achieving global water security will also require establishing self-enforcing agreements negotiated among countries that share transboundary rivers. At its core, transboundary water governance is …
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Cultural Waters: Values of Water Resources in Hidalgo, Mexico
The availability of clean water is fundamental to the survival of all living things. Humans have altered fresh water cycles in a number of ways that affect both water quality and quantity. This has led to a global water crisis where an estimated nine million people are without access to a clean and …
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