Preparing Urban Water Use Efficiency Plans, 2nd Ed.
This second edition is supporting guidance for local water providers such that they can find cost effective ways to reduce water demands through conservation which is often the cheapest source of...
Strengthening Systems and Realising Human Rights: Strategies to Progress Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This book explores two frameworks for progressing structural change that supports safe, universal and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): systems strengthening and the human rights to...
From Knowledge and Capacity Development to an Implementation Science: Policy Concepts and Operational Approaches
Over the next three decades — the typical planning period for large infrastructure — the world will have changed into a place that is predominantly water-scarce, yet also subject to more extreme...
Water Management Addressing Societal and Climate Change Challenges
Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the earth's ecosystem and thus people's livelihoods and well-being. Globally, 83% of all disasters have been caused by extreme...
Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture: Transitioning from Open to Regulated Access
The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions...
Water Interactions: A systemic view
During the last two decades, the interrelationship between water and energy has become recognized. Likewise, the couplings to food and agriculture are getting increasingly obvious and alarming. In...
Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of water and sanitation services: Overview of emissions and their potential reduction illustrated by the know-how of utilities
The scientific evidence contained in the three volumes of the 6th IPCC report (AR6), published between August 2021 and April 2022, are another reminder of the urgent need to respect the 2015 Paris...
Water Infrastructure Planning, Management and Design Under Climate Uncertainty
This book is the product of a worldwide collaboration among UN water resources programs, prominent national water resources operating agencies and selected academic specialists. It deals directly...
Implementing the Water-Energy-Food- Ecosystems Nexus and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
The book’s primary intention is to serve as a roadmap for professionals working in developing countries interested in the Nexus Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) approach. The book shows a multi...
WASH Economics and Financing: towards a better understanding of costs and benefits
The case for investment in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) has been convincingly made. WASH is essential for protecting public health, is a human right and investing in it is compelling from...