A5067592375- Water resources management and optimization
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Climate variability and models
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Science and Climate Studies
- Legal, Health, Environmental and COVID-19 Challenges
Pacifica Graduate Institute
2008-2024
Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
1994-2021
World Resources Institute
2020
Oakland University
2012
University of California, Berkeley
1981-1990
Office of the Governor
1983-1990
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1987
Hamilton Medical (Switzerland)
1982
Atomic Energy (Canada)
1982
Harvard University
1982
Twentieth-century water policies relied on the construction of massive infrastructure in form dams, aqueducts, pipelines, and complex centralized treatment plants to meet human demands. These facilities brought tremendous benefits billions people, but they also had serious often unanticipated social, economical, ecological costs. Many unsolved problems remain, past approaches no longer seem sufficient. A transition is under way a "soft path" that complements physical with lower cost...
(1996). Basic Water Requirements for Human Activities: Meeting Needs. International: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 83-92.
Abstract The devastating civil war that began in Syria March 2011 is the result of complex interrelated factors. focus conflict regime change, but triggers include a broad set religious and sociopolitical factors, erosion economic health country, wave political reform sweeping over Middle East North Africa (MENA) Levant region, challenges associated with climate variability change availability use freshwater. As described here, water climatic conditions have played direct role deterioration...
Abstract Water resources management approaches around the world are changing dramatically. This "changing water paradigm" has many components, including a shift away from sole, or even primary, reliance on finding new sources of supply to address perceived demands, growing emphasis incorporating ecological values into policy, re-emphasis meeting basic human needs for services, and conscious breaking ties between economic growth use. A physical solutions continues dominate traditional...
Human society has used freshwater from rivers, lakes, groundwater, and wetlands for many different urban, agricultural, industrial activities, but in doing so overlooked its value supporting ecosystems. Freshwater is vital to human life societal well-being, thus utilization consumption, irrigation, transport long taken precedence over other commodities services provided by However, there growing recognition that functionally intact biologically complex aquatic ecosystems provide economically...
A wide range of ecological and human crises result from inadequate access to, the inappropriate management of, freshwater resources. These include destruction aquatic ecosystems extinction species, millions deaths water-related illnesses, a growing risk regional international conflicts over scarce, shared water supplies. As populations continue to grow, these problems are likely become more frequent serious. New approaches long-term planning that incorporate principles sustainability equity...
Freshwater resources are fundamental for maintaining human health, agricultural production, economic activity as well critical ecosystem functions. As populations and economies grow, new constraints on water appearing, raising questions about limits to availability. Such resource not new. The specter of "peak oil"--a peaking then decline in oil production--has long been predicted debated. We present here a detailed assessment definition three concepts water": peak renewable water,...
More than a billion people in the developing world lack safe drinking water — an amenity those developed take for granted. Nearly three live without access to adequate sanitation systems necessary reducing exposure water-related diseases. The failure of international aid community, nations and local organizations satisfy these basic human needs has led substantial, unnecessary preventable suffering. This paper argues that requirement is fundamental right implicitly explicitly supported by...
Abstract The armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia that began in late February 2022 has far-reaching environmental consequences, especially regarding water resources management. Here we analysed the multifaceted impacts of military actions on freshwater infrastructure during first three months conflict. We identified nature impacts, kind pressures imposed sector negative consequences for availability quality civilian population. Our results showed many infrastructures such as dams at...
The availability and use of fresh water are critical for human health economic ecosystem stability. But the growing mismatch between demands natural freshwater is contributing to scarcity, affecting industrial agricultural production a wide range social, economic, political problems, including poverty, deterioration health, violent conflicts. Understanding addressing different forms scarcity vital moving toward more sustainable management water. We provide here review concepts definitions...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease sizeKEYWORDS: Kakhovka damdestructionKakhovske ReservoirRussia-Ukraine Wareconomic and environmental impactsUkraine AcknowledgementsWe express our profound gratitude Iuliia Markhell, of the Ukrainian non-governmental organisation (NGO) ‘Let’s do it Ukraine’, for her remarkable contribution as well team, volunteers local authorities who offered their indispensable help in sampling water sediment from Dnipro River, flooded areas, Dnipro–Bug estuary....
Water managers and planners are slowly beginning to change their perspective perceptions about how best meet human needs for water; they shifting from a focus on building supply infrastructure improving understanding of water is used those uses can be met. This review discusses definitions use, explores the history use around world in characteristic regions, identifies problems with collecting analyzing data, addresses question water-use efficiency productivity different regions economic...
Growing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other trace gases are leading to climatic changes with important implications for the hydrologic balance water resources. These “greenhouse gases” expected alter radiative atmosphere, causing increases in temperature many variables. Recent hydrological research strongly suggests that this so‐called effect” will timing magnitude runoff soil moisture, change lake levels, affect quality. Such raise possibility environmental socioeconomic...
Within the next few decades, changes in global temperature and precipitation patterns caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide other trace gases are likely to appear. At present, we unable evaluate regional hydrologic impacts such climatic with any certainty. Using modified water balance methods, a model critical basin, Sacramento Basin California, is developed tested for purposes investigating effects on availability climate. This basin was chosen because importance...