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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"water equity"”.
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Investigating the potential for utilising a water equity metric to benchmark differential access in Global South cities: a case study of Cape Town
… or the City) has made the commitment to become water sensitive in its Water Strategy (CCT, 2019). According to the United Nations SDG 6.1, universal access to water has to take priority in any form of water policy. This is reflected in the principles of water sensitive design where equitable and …
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Exploring adaptive policy management and evaluation for improved water resources management in the face of uncertainty and complexity in South Africa
Evidence-based water resources policy management is bedevilled by the challenge of uncertainty, with increased risk of policy failure and/or unintended or negative policy outcomes. Moreover, there is increased policy management complexity emerging from related systems' interdependencies …
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Pressure Swing Assisted Desorption for Atmospheric Water Collection
Ensuring water equity is an urgent and challenging issue in the light of climate change, global conflict, and socioeconomic disparities. Atmospheric water harvesting provides a promising option to collect water from the air, even in considerably dry conditions (RH < 40%), expanding the reach of …
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Water Literacy in Drought-Prone Regions: Case Studies from Aurora, Colorado, USA and Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
<p>Water managers around the world must reevaluate their approach to water security as challenges continue to grow. Supply-focused paradigms that aimed to capture, control, and commodify water resources are increasingly unreliable and often depend on environmentally and socially damaging practices. …
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Hydroecological connectivity as a normative framework for aquatic ecosystem regulation: lessons from the USA
… These components are connected not only by water, but also by a variety of ecological connections and pathways ¾ here termed 'hydroecological connectivity' (HEC). These connections are not only important in terms of providing abiotic and biota corridors between components, but they also act …