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    Strategic Management

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    1 Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Economic frameworks to inform decision-making 2 Copyright © 2009 The Barilla Group‚ The Coca-Cola Company‚ The International Finance Corporation‚ McKinsey & Company‚ Nestlé S.A.‚ New Holland Agriculture‚ SABMiller plc‚ Standard Chartered Bank‚ and Syngenta AG. This report was prepared with the support and active participation of each member of the 2030 Water Resources Group‚ but the views expressed in it are not

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    increased nearly 300 percent‚ from about 148 cubic meters per second before 1985 to 440 cubic meters per second since 1985. The Malaysian government has monitored the situation since the early 1970s‚ and responded with the development the Klang River Basin Flood Mitigation Project. The government has attempted to control flooding by creating holding ponds and increasing river channel capacity‚ but this has had only limited success. In 2001‚ the government sought proposals for a more effective solution

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    References: Understanding our wetlands a Resource book for Universities and Tertiary Institutions (2009)‚ Nile Basin Initiative – Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Project‚ LA Consult Ltd. Eurowet.brgm.fr/documents/wetlands_watercycle.uk.pdf

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    CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination CAPE® GEOGRAPHY Effective for examinations from May/June 2010 CXC A21/U2/09 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council © 2010‚ Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher.

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    Sile‚ n.d.). What is its mission? The mission of the River Sile Regional Natural Park as specified in art 2‚ clause 1of the Regional Law of 1991 indicates that the Park is out to protect the soil and subsoil‚ flora‚ fauna and water; enhance the drainage basin as a source of drinking water‚ safeguard‚ maintain‚ restore‚ enhance‚ and promote the natural‚ historical and

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    Three Gorges Dam case study The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Yangtze River‚ and is the worlds largest power station. As well as providing electricity‚ the dam is also being used to help increase the shipping capacity of the river‚ as well as reduce the risk of potential floods downstream by acting as a flood storage space. This major alteration is proving to have both positive and negative repercussions. How has building the dam effected local environment? Despite the Chinese

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    beneath it becomes soggy and waterlogged. At this time‚ the soil will no longer be able to absorb any more water‚ so it will seep out onto its surface. This is the beginning of a stream that with time will evolve into a river. All water in the same drainage basin will eventually flow in the same pattern and ultimately‚ will end up in the same stream or river. Why do river shapes vary in wet and dry climates? River shapes change in various climates due to different erosion patterns. In dry‚ arid regions

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    | WETLANDS OF INDIA | | S. N. Prasad‚ T. Sengupta‚ Alok Kumar‚ V. S. Vijayan and Lalita Vijayan Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History‚Coimbatore-641 108. T. V. Ramachandra and N. Ahalya Center for Ecological Sciences‚ Indian Institute of Science‚ Bangalore-560 012. A. K. Tiwari Regional Remote Sensing Service Center‚ Dehradun‚ Uttarachal-248 001. CONTENTS | Introduction | Distribution of wet lands in India | Diversity of aquatic vegitation and avifauna in wetlands

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    Ghanshyam Thori Geography Notes GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD Continent Asia Europe South America Africa North America Oceania Urbanization by Continents: SN Continent 1. South America 2. Europe 3. North America DEMOGRAPHY: Density person/sq. km 108 101 21 20 14 3 Urbanization 78 74 68 S.no 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Country Russia Canada United States China Brazil Australia India Argentina Kazakhstan Sudan Top 20 Countries by Area Area (lakh sq km) S. N Country 170 11. Algeria 99

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    fluctuated throughout the past thousand years. Eustatic change is when there is a rise or fall in sea level changes relative to the land‚ due to an alteration in the volume of water in the oceans or‚ alternatively‚ a change in the shape of a drainage basin and hence a change in the amount of water the sea can hold. Throughout and after an ice age‚ eustatic change takes place. At the start of an ice age‚ the temperature falls and water is frozen and stored in glaciers inland‚ suspending the hydrological

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