Encyclopaedia of Sustainable Water Resource Management (5 Vol.Set) - Hardcover

Water resource management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources. It is a sub-set of water cycle management. Ideally, water resource management planning has regard to all the competing demands for water and seeks to allocate water on an equitable basis to satisfy all uses and demands. As with other resource management, this is rarely possible in practice. As water scarcities increase, nations throughout the world are in search of better institutions to manage water resources. The recent realization of the worldwide shortage of fresh water has impelled policymakers to find ways to manage this precious resource more efficiently and wisely. The main purpose of this encyclopaedia is to provide a new approach for the analysis in the related field.