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La Lucha Por el Agua : Gestión Comunitaria Del Proyecto de Agua Potable Pesillo-Imbabura.
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ISBN: 997810576X 9978104054 9789978105784 Year: 2020 Publisher: SciELO Books - Editorial Abya-Yala

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El enfoque de la gestión comunitaria del agua en el Ecuador es un tema de vital importancia. El ejemplo del proyecto Pesillo-Imbabura, en donde la organización comunitaria fue fundamental para su ejecución, dio lugar a esta investigación. Reuniones de dirigentes, asambleas de usuarios, protestas, mingas, diálogo con distintos actores y con la cooperación fueron claves en el desarrollo del proyecto Pesillo: un ejemplo de cómo la unión y un objeto común son claves para tener resultados de desarrollo en territorios indígenas. Esta publicación recoge antecedentes históricos sobre las formas de acceso al agua hasta la creación de las Juntas de Administración de Agua Potable Comunitarias. Analiza tanto el derecho al agua como la organización comunitaria y, en Pesillo, encuentra un ejemplo que visibiliza la lucha por el agua a nivel nacional.


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Studies on Water Management Issues
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ISBN: 9535161091 9533079614 Year: 2012 Publisher: IntechOpen

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This book shares knowledge gained through water management related research. It describes a broad range of approaches and technologies, of which have been developed and used by researchers for managing water resource problems. This multidisciplinary book covers water management issues under surface water management, groundwater management, water quality management, and water resource planning management subtopics. The main objective of this book is to enable a better understanding of these perspectives relating to water management practices. This book is expected to be useful to researchers, policy-makers, and non-governmental organizations working on water related projects in countries worldwide.


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Ecological Water Quality : Water Treatment and Reuse
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ISBN: 953516208X 9535105086 Year: 2012 Publisher: IntechOpen

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This book attempts to cover various issues of water quality in the fields of Hydroecology and Hydrobiology and present various Water Treatment Technologies. Sustainable choices of water use that prevent water quality problems aiming at the protection of available water resources and the enhancement of the aquatic ecosystems should be our main target.


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De Noordzee
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ISBN: 9027492212 Year: 1980 Publisher: Wijnegem Het Spectrum

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Water Conservation
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ISBN: 9535161067 9533079606 Year: 2011 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Water is an essential and basic human need for urban, industrial and agricultural use. While an abundance of fresh water resources is available, its uneven distribution around the globe creates challenges for sustainable use of this resource. Water conservation refers to an efficient and optimal use as well as protection of valuable water resources and this book focuses on some commonly used tools and techniques such as rainwater harvesting, water reuse and recycling, cooling water recycling, irrigation techniques such as drip irrigation, agricultural management practices, groundwater management, and water conservation incentives.


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Responses of Organisms to Water Stress
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ISBN: 9535109332 9535153463 Year: 2013 Publisher: IntechOpen

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The same amount of water has been present on our planet for about 4 billion years, since shortly after the Earth was formed. Since then it has cycled through evaporation, condensation, precipitation and surface runoff multiple times. Water scarcity as an abiotic factor ranging from moderate to severe stress levels, accompanied by loss of moisture in the soil, is extremely hard for most organisms to cope with, particularly terrestrial plants and their food-chain dependents. Because of the potential for increasing temporary, or posssibly permanent, drought conditions in the future, there is intense focus on improving plant resistance to drought and increasing yield performance in water- limited environments through genotype selection in important crops. This book aims to contribute to understanding of how plants and other organisms respond to water stress conditions, and the various survival strategies adopted under differing moisture levels.


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International Perspectives on Water Quality Management and Pollutant Control
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ISBN: 9535109995 9535163094 Year: 2013 Publisher: IntechOpen

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The level of surface water quality protection is variable around the world in large part due to the relative effectiveness of environmental regulation and the degree to which science influences the regulatory process. In the United States, at the federal level, the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) has been an effective policy and water quality management tool for dealing with both point source and non-point source pollution. The TMDL provides a rational framework for estimating the assimilative capacity of the receiving water body for certain contaminants and applying factors of safety and incorporating acceptable levels of water quality criteria violation - provided the local stakeholders have a say in the decision making process. This collection of articles from around the world are good examples of the application of sound scientific principles to solve pressing water quality problems.


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Natural Disasters : Multifaceted Aspects in Management and Impact Assessment
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ISBN: 9535150456 9535111906 Year: 2013 Publisher: IntechOpen

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This book is an overview of the complex and multifaceted topic of natural disasters impact. Several possible approaches can be undertaken to assess economic, psychological, societal or environmental damage caused by natural disasters, aiming to reduce the effects of future events on the whole of these sectors. This book proposes a range of studies realized in different continents, showing various aspects from which natural disasters can be view, thus giving a measure of the complexity and multidisciplinary of the topic. It starts with a paper presenting a possible strategy to either avoid or reduce the vulnerability of concrete buildings during floods. Then, it continues with an insight into the communication during post-disaster emergency phase and with two chapters concerning the assessment of two different kinds of impact on people everyday life. The book ends with an analysis of the role of stakeholder participation in post-disaster reconstruction.


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Hydrogeology : a global perspective
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ISBN: 9535149512 9535100483 Year: 2012 Publisher: IntechOpen

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The field of groundwater hydrology and the discipline of hydrogeology have attracted a lot of attention during the past few decades. This is mainly because of the increasing need for high quality water, especially groundwater. This book, written by 15 scientists from 6 countries, clearly demonstrates the extensive range of issues that are dealt with in the field of hydrogeology. Karst hydrogeology and deposition processes, hydrogeochemistry, soil hydraulic properties as a factor affecting groundwater recharge processes, relevant conceptual models, and geophysical exploration for groundwater are all discussed in this book, giving the reader a global perspective on what hydrogeologists and co-scientists are currently working on to better manage groundwater resources. Graduate students, as well as practitioners, will find this book a useful resource and valuable guide.


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Water Resources Management and Modeling
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ISBN: 9535161598 953510246X Year: 2012 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Hydrology is the science that deals with the processes governing the depletion and replenishment of water resources of the earth's land areas. The purpose of this book is to put together recent developments on hydrology and water resources engineering. First section covers surface water modeling and second section deals with groundwater modeling. The aim of this book is to focus attention on the management of surface water and groundwater resources. Meeting the challenges and the impact of climate change on water resources is also discussed in the book. Most chapters give insights into the interpretation of field information, development of models, the use of computational models based on analytical and numerical techniques, assessment of model performance and the use of these models for predictive purposes. It is written for the practicing professionals and students, mathematical modelers, hydrogeologists and water resources specialists.

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