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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Water insecurity"”.
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Seasonal Water Insecurity in Urban Philippines: Examining the Role of Gender, Resources, and Context
<p>Seasonal water insecurity is a complex problem of growing concern in many urban areas, due in part to urbanization, population growth, and environmental change. Using multiple research methods, this study documents the extent and nature of seasonal water insecurity among and within households in …
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International water law and the quest for common security
The world’s freshwater supplies are squeezed by rapidly increasing demand, the impacts of global climate change and unsustainable management. Given the fact that water is the gossamer linking various other security issues – e.g., energy, food and environment – it seems obvious that ‘business as …
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Water usage in post-harvest handling of groundnuts and beans at Luvhada Irrigation Scheme, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Water is central to sustainable agricultural intensification, as it directly influences several dimensions of sustainability, including social, economic, health and environmental aspects. Therefore, lack of water is the greatest constraint to growth and primary productivity of agricultural crops …
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"As It Flows Down from the North": Confluences of Water Stewardship Emerging from the Ottawa River Watershed
… Ottawa River is an invaluable source of potable water, industrial sustenance, recreational mediation and aesthetic prestige. Inseparable from un-ceded Algonquin lands, the river divides two provinces and is governed by multiple political bureaucracies which take different approaches to water …
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The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Sudden-Onset and Chronic Disasters: the Case of Jackson, Mississippi, USA
… in Mississippi flooded and caused damage to the water treatment plant that serves Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson residents are familiar with water insecurity as there has been an ongoing water crisis for decades. The temporary closure of the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant brought national …
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting
Water sorbents enable technologies that have the potential to mediate water insecurity, meet an increasing energy demand, and push towards sustainability. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are candidate sorbents for such technologies as a direct result of their inherent chemical modularity – …
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Gender-based analysis of agricultural water security in Luvhada Community, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Women and men use water differently. A significant number of rural women and men rely on natural water resources for farming in irrigated schemes, as a key and common economic activity. Women undertake farming either together with men or alone (for example, when widowed or when the men migrate to …
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Exploring forest-water nexus in a changing environment of Kafue river basin, Zambia.
Water insecurity in Zambia's Kafue River Basin (KRB) is rising due to climate change, land-use change and increased water abstraction. The role of forests in the hydrological cycle, particularly through evapotranspiration (ET) has not been adequately explored. This study addressed this gap. The …
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Social vulnerabilities and adaptation options to climatic hazards affecting rural water supply in Barotse floodplain catchment.
… and shifts in precipitation patterns threatening water supply systems in the Barotse Floodplain. This has adversely affected the rural communities in the Barotse floodplain as water supply systems are crucial for their livelihoods and well-being. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the …
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Exploring forest-water nexus in a changing environment of Kafue river basin, Zambia.
Water insecurity in Zambia's Kafue River Basin (KRB) is rising due to climate change, land-use change and increased water abstraction. The role of forests in the hydrological cycle, particularly through evapotranspiration (ET) has not been adequately explored. This study addressed this gap. The …
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Social vulnerabilities and adaptation options to climatic hazards affecting rural water supply in Barotse floodplain catchment.
… and shifts in precipitation patterns threatening water supply systems in the Barotse Floodplain. This has adversely affected the rural communities in the Barotse floodplain as water supply systems are crucial for their livelihoods and well-being. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the …
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From drought to desalination: The case of Cape Town
The recent Cape Town drought and fear of a severe water crisis between 2015- 2018 was followed by a fast-tracked crisis management response. In line with a wider global trend, the City of Cape Town adopted a technology called ‘reverse osmosis desalination' into the water supply mix. This ‘water …
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Participative water demand management as an adaptive response within complex socio-institutional systems: a case study of Cape Town, South Africa
… strategies are being developed to address water insecurity. The current path of water resource management is not sustainable in the long-term, which requires the investigation of improved and adapted strategies. However, adaptation theory is proving difficult to implement. A range of …
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Assessing how South African Development Community Countries' National Adaptation Planning addresses health impacts: A scoping review
… increase in temperature contributing to food and water insecurity within geographic areas; an increase in precipitation which contributed to flooding and associated with a rise in water- and vector-borne 3 diseases; temperature increase contributing to health outcomes such as heat stress, …