WATER AND SANITATION PROGRAM: POLICY NOTE Supporting Poor-Inclusive WSS Sector Reform Devolution in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges for the Water Sector September 2013 KEY FINDINGS Devolution under Kenya’s new 2010 Constitution has wide-ranging implications for the water sector. The Constitution recognizes that access to safe and sufficient water is a basic human right. It also assigns responsibility for water supply and sanitation provision to 47 newly established counties
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Draft India’s River Linking Project: The State of the Debate1 Tushaar Shah Upali Amrasinghe Peter McCornick Abstract The idea of linking water surplus Himalayan rivers with water scarce parts of western and peninsular India has been doing the rounds for the past 150 years. However‚ the idea has now got detailed in the form of a mega-project for inter-linking of Himalayan and peninsular region. Never in the past has this idea generated as much discussion and debate as during the recent years
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Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering is a field related to direct application of science and engineering principles to the environment in which animals‚ humans and plants are living. An environmental engineer as a professional is concerned to protect the environment from deterioration; he is also concerned with the preservation of resources including plants‚ fuels‚ and fossils which can generate energy for human use. The primary task of an environmental engineer is to provide
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Harold L. Carter Colorado Technical University On-line SCI203-1404A-01: Environmental Science and Sustainability: Laboratory Course Phase 1 (IP) – Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater Trena Woolridge‚ Professor October 10‚ 2014 Title: Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater Part I: Time Period Impact to Forest Groundwater Levels Saltwater Intrusion Farming Industrial Development Population 1800s Large amounts of forest existed. Large amounts of Groundwater existed
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Bitter Waters Can China save the Yellow—it’s Mother River? Author: Brook Lamar – Published: May 2008 Few waterways capture the soul of a nation more deeply than the Yellow‚ or the Huang‚ as it’s known in China. It is to China what the Nile is to Egypt: the cradle of civilization‚ a symbol of enduring glory‚ a force of nature both feared and revered. From its mystical source in the 14‚000-foot Tibetan highlands‚ the river sweeps across the northern plains where China’s original inhabitants first
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As habitat fragmentation in southern California split land‚ the integrity of the land changes. Habitat fragments that each has a decrease in area will have an increase in the total perimeter distance collectively (Morrison et al.‚ 2006). This increased area around the habitat exposes more of the internal habitat to the elements‚ reduces the habitat buffer‚ and in turn creates less optimal habitat for species in the fragment (Morrison et al.‚ 2006). This process‚ called edge effect‚ decreases the
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Explain how the changes in abiotic factors during a hydrosere control the changes in species that are present A hyrdrosere is a plant succession which occurs in a fresh water lake. In time an area of open fresh water will dry out forming woodland. During a hydrosere there are many abiotic factors that change‚ which causes different species to inhabit the lake depending on the conditions they need to thrive and live successfully. There are many different stages that occur during a hyrdrosere
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Drought conditions in Long Beach‚ California‚ are regionally shared issues that policymakers and scientists are trying to address and mitigate within the 21st century. The Long Beach Water Department implemented the Conservation and Water Supply Shortage Plan as of November 3‚ 2005‚ to prevent supply shortages. Efforts to reduce water consumption in Long Beach has seen progress since inaction of the shortage plan‚ with 69.5 average daily gallons per resident being used to date (as of the month
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JOE WILLIS: FEELING THE HEAT IN THAILAND JOE WILLIS: FEELING THE HEAT IN THAILAND Joe Willis and his team are faced with a massive mess that they must clean up and restore order back to the entity. Throughout the story Joe is read as the protagonist‚ but to the workers he aims to empower and improve to increase performance/productivity he is seen as the antagonist and only there because he is on a ‘witch hunt’. The fear instilled because of word of mouth that he is from ‘internal audit’ makes
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Southern Africa Southern Africa Youth Forum‚ 24-25 September 2001‚ Harare‚ Zimbabwe. Principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) B. Gumbo and P. van der Zaag Department of Civil Engineering‚ University of Zimbabwe. Introduction The world’s fresh water resources are under increasing pressure. Growth in population‚ increased economic activity and improved standards of living lead to increased competition for and conflicts over the limited freshwater resources. A combination of
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