Global climate change will increase the risk of conflict over shared international freshwater resources. Treaties and other cross-border agreements can help reduce those risks, but existing agreements are inadequate for dealing with the impacts of climate change.
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This book explores how to maximize the use of groundwater and rainwater for development and climate change adaptation in an approach called 3R. 3R stands for Recharge, Retention and Reuse.
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Groundwater is of high social, economic, environmental and strategic importance. It represents about 97% of the freshwater resources available on earth, excluding the water locked in the polar ice. Aquifers, among them numerous Transboundary ones, are coming under growing pressure from over-abstraction and pollution, which seriously threaten their sustainability. Up to now international law has paid much less ttention to ground- than to surface water. Slowly however, a body of rules dealing with this vital resource is emerging that indicates a trend towards more comprehensive international regulation.
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The Polish Chapter of IAH and the AGH University of Science and Technology have pleasure to host the XXXVIII Congress in Krakow, Poland, from 12 to 17 September 2010.
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In 1970, ILRI, the International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement in Wageningen (NL) published the first edition of «Analysis and Evaluation of Pumping Test Data» by Krusemand and De Ridder as No. 11 in the now discontinued series of Bulletins of the International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement/ILRI.
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IISD’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin reports on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15), that was held in Copenhagen, 7–19 December 2009.
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10 Dec 2009, Copenhagen • The Netherlands National Committee IHP-HWRP – together with University College London (UCL), IGRAC, AMCOW, UNESCO’s IHP and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) – organized a session on Groundwater and Climate Change during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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8–9 Dec 2009, Koblenz • Workshop organized by the German and Netherlands National Committees IHP-HWRP. As water is our number one aliment, the quality of drinking water directly influences public health and plays a major economic role both as a tradable good and a cost factor in our healthcare system.
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5 Nov 2009, Amsterdam • Event co-organized by the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands National Committee IHP-HWRP (UNESCO & WMO), The Netherlands' Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), the Netherlands Hydrological Society (NHV) and the US National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation (NGWREF).
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