Global Water : Issues and Insights.

Global Water: Issues and Insights -- Contents -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Part 2: Economics -- 2. Economics -- 3. Managing residential water demand in the OECD -- 4. Water finance: Preparing for the next critical juncture -- 5. Outlining a transition from cost-effective to productive rural water service improvements -- 6. Improving West African rice production with agricultural water management strategies -- 7. An assessment of the replacement of traditional irrigation systems by private wells in Tamil Nadu, India -- 8. Water markets in the Murray-Darling Basin -- Part 3: Transboundary governance -- 9. Transboundary water governance -- 10. How 'soft' power shapes transboundary water interaction -- 11. Greater exchange, greater ambiguity: Water resources data and information exchange in transboundary water treaties -- 12. Opening the black box of river basin organisations -- 13. The agreement on the Guarani Aquifer: Cooperation without conflict -- 14. The Brahmaputra: Water hotspot in Himalayan Asia -- Part 4: Development -- 15. Development -- 16. Improved but not necessarily safe: Water access and the Millennium Development Goals -- 17. Water supply and sanitation in India: Meeting targets and beyond -- 18. Mobile water payments in urban Africa: Adoption, implications and opportunities -- 19. Good governance for state-owned water utilities -- 20. Water, women and marital violence in a Bangladesh village -- Part 5: Energy -- 21. Energy -- 22. Water security at the energy crossroads -- 23. A thirst for power: A global analysis of water consumption for energy production -- 24. New perspectives on the effects of natural gas extraction on groundwater quality -- 25. Shale gas for energy security in India: Perspectives and constraints -- 26. Dams on the Mekong -- Part 6: Water concepts -- 27. Water concepts.

28. Understanding water scarcity: Definitions and measurements -- 29. Water security: Converging toward toward common understanding through quantification -- 30. Water footprints: Policy relevant or one-dimensional indicators? -- 31. Virtual water: Some reservations -- 32. Virtual water trade means 'trade in in water services' -- 33. Understanding resilience: Implications for the water sector -- Part 7: UNESCO Water Chairs and Centres -- 34. UNESCO Water Chairs and Centres -- 35. Promoting cooperation for transboundy water security: The experience of the UNESCO Chair/INWEB -- 36. The UN Watercourses Convention and and its complementary User's Guide: Indispensable ingredients for global water cooperation -- 37. Water reuse and wastewater recycling: Solutions to Tehran's growing water crisis -- 38. Water services and cooperation.

This book brings together some of the world's leading water researchers with an especially written collection of chapters on: water economics; transboundary water; water and development; water and energy; and water concepts.

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