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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"water crises"”.
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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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Water supply development amidst growing scarcity: a case study of the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project
This thesis explores existing water conditions in California and, using economic valuation and policy analysis tools, examines whether desalination is a reasonable solution to growing water scarcity across the state. The author begins with an analysis of historical water development and the current …
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How does the work of the ILC and the General Assembly on the law of international watercourses contribute towards a legal framework for the Nile Basin?
… law of non-navigational uses of international watercourses has impacted the development of the Nile Cooperative Framework Agreement (NRBCFA). Chapter 1 introduces a bird’s eye view of the genesis of water crises in general and that of the Nile in particular. The Chapter raises the main research …
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Trust in Water: An Institutional Analysis of China's Urban Tap Water Provision System
… institutional analysis of China’s urban tap water provision system from a ‘source to sip’ holistic research perspective. With the examination of each agent’s function in the system, this thesis coins the concepts of semi-potable tap water and Hybrid Institutional Architecture to illustrate …
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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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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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Exploring impacts and effectiveness of the City of Cape Town’s interventions on household water use practices during the drought
The occurrence of water crises in many parts of the world raises the need to consider more efficient and sustainable consumption of water resources. As such, many cities have prioritised water demand management strategies, which are based on price and non-price mechanisms. The literature shows no …
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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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The effectiveness of the water supply system at Chavani Village, South Africa
Most countries of the world are experiencing water crises because water as a natural resource is no longer as freely available as it used to be. The main contributing factor is technological advancement and associated economic expansion that have put a lot of pressure on water resources. The demand …
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Corporate Governance and Water Crisis: A Study of Water Boards in South Africa
… between corporate governance and the water issue as a governance crisis is a topic of debate despite the wealth of study on the subject. Therefore, the study's goal was to examine the relationship between corporate governance and water crises from the viewpoints of three distinct …
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Crowdsourcing corporate water data : a validity test of a pilot survey instrument to map public water management related risk worldwide
As water crises continue to occur globally, it would be invaluable to have easy-to-access, comparable and localized data on public water management worldwide; unfortunately such information is not available from a single public source (Koelbel et al. 2018). Information on water risk that does exist …