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Urban Water Security: Managing Risks
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UNESCO-IHP
Urban Water Security: Managing Risks
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Urban Water Security: Managing Risks book
UNESCO-IHP
Edited ByBlanca Jiménez, Joan Rose
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 15 December 2008
Pub. Location London
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 324
eBook ISBN 9780429206993
Subjects Engineering & Technology
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Jiménez, B., & Rose, J. (Eds.). (2008). Urban Water Security: Managing Risks: UNESCO-IHP (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203881620
ABSTRACT
Understanding the impacts of urbanization on the urban water cycle and managing the associated health risks demand adequate strategies and measures. Health risks associated with urban water systems and services include the microbiological and chemical contamination of urban waters and outbreak of water-borne diseases, mainly due to poor water and s
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
Drinking water – Potential health effects caused by wastewater disposal
ByTuula Tuhkanen
chapter |81 pages
Risk management in the urban water cycle: climate change risks
ByClaudia Sheinbaum Pardo
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
‘Closing the urban water cycle’ integrated approach towards water reuse in Windhoek, Namibia
ByBen van der Merwe
chapter Chapter 10|17 pages
Reducing risk from wastewater use in urban farming – A case study of Accra, Ghana
ByPay Drechsel, Liqa Raschid-Sally, Robert Abaidoo
chapter |8 pages
Drinking water – potential health effects caused by infiltration of pollutants from solid waste landfills
ByTuula Tuhkanen
chapter Chapter 13|16 pages
Lessons learned: a response and recovery framework for post-disaster scenarios
ByDarren Saywell
chapter Chapter 14|11 pages
Managing urban water risks: managing drought and climate change risks in Australia
ByJ.M. Anderson
