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Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Challenges and Opportunities - Technical Report
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2011-01-01)This technical report comprises an integral part of the broader United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) post-conflict environmental assessment (PCEA) of the DRC. The UNEP PCEA aims to evaluate the key environmental ... -
Water Management in Cyprus: Challenges and Opportunities - National Report
(Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Cyprus, 2004)In the Mediterranean region water resources are limited and drought incidents occur frequently. Water resources in most Mediterranean countries are fully utilized, while water demand is increasing, as a result of population ... -
Water Management of the Amazon Basin
(1991)This paper analyzes annual maximum precipitation series for the Xingu and Tapajos basins located both in the Amazon basin. The analysis has the objective of indicating a probability distribution function that can be used ... -
Water Pollution Control - A Guide to the Use of Water Quality Management Principles
(1997)Water pollution control is clearly one of the most critical of those challenges. Without urgent and properly directed action, developing countries face mounting problems of disease, environmental degradation and economic ... -
Water quality assessments: a guide to the use of biota, sediments and water in ecosystems
(E&FN Spon, 1992)This guidebook concentrates on the process of setting on monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing a valid data base for water quality assessments. -
Water Quality Criteria for European Freshwater Fish: Report on Cadmium and Freshwater Fish - European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission Technical Paper No. 30
(1977)This is the eleventh technical paper on water quality criteria for European freshwater fish, for the European Inland. Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) - an inter-governmental organization with a membership of 23 ... -
Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health
(2008)The data and analyses presented in Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health 2nd Edition are from GEMStat, the global water quality database created by UNEP's GEMS/Water Programme, the only programme in the UN system ... -
Water Quality For Ecosystem and Human Health
(2006)The data and analyses presented in Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health are from GEMStat, the global water quality database created by UNEP’s GEMS/Water Programme, the only programme in the UN system exclusively ... -
Water Quality Monitoring Report
(2006)This report is the final and fifth technical report of 2005‐06 and presents the results of the final phase of the monitoring program. During this phase, 357 water samples from 364 selected water sources were collected, ... -
Water Quality Monitoring, Assessment & Management: A Guide to the Modular GEMS/ Water Training Programme
(1996)Due to the success of this programme and the high demands expressed by network participants, it was agreed by the GEMS/WATER Steering Committee to develop a comprehensive guide which compiles all training course opportunities ... -
Water Quality of World River Basins: Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) - UNEP Environment Library No. 14
(1995)The Water Quality of World River Basins selectively summarizes data contributed by countries participating in the GEMS/WATER Programme over the period 1976-90. The book also includes information gathered from many other ... -
Water quality outlook
(2007)This report presents a snapshot of global water quality issues as they relate to achieving the internationally agreed goals on water, sanitation and biodiversity. Evidence suggests that there have been improvements in the ... -
Water Quality Studies on Selected South Pacific Lagoons: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 136
This report presents the results of studies made on five Pacific lagoons located at Suva, Fiji; Villa, Vanuatu; Tarawa, Kiribati, Tongatapu, Tonga; and Marovo, Western Province, Solomon Islands. Studies were made on water ... -
Water Resource Management in Humanitarian Programming in Darfur: The Case for Drought Preparedness - Report of the UNEP Mission to Review Water Resource Management at IDP Camps and Host Communities in Darfur during February & March 2008
(2008)This report summarises the findings of a review of water resource management in internally displaced person (IDP) camps and host communities in Darfur undertaken by UNEP in February and March 2008. The report has assessed ... -
Water Resources Development and Vector-borne diseases in Kenya: Proceedings of a Seminar on Water Resources Development and Vector-Borne Diseases in Kenya
(1990)At the end of the 1980s the troubled relationship between the biosphere of planet Earth and the man-driven process of economic development came to the foreground as the key topic in international discussions almost independent ... -
Water Resources Development and Vector-Borne Diseases in Zambia - Report of a National Seminar
(1996)A National Seminar on Water Resources Development and Vector-borne Diseases was held at the Regional Training Centre, Kafue Gorge, Zambia from 6 to 10 November 1995 as part of the programme of work of the joint WHOIFAO/UNEP/UNCHS ... -
Water Safety Framework: Preliminary Water Quality Sampling and Analysis Strategy for the ‘Villages et Ecoles Assainis’ National Programme - Democratic Republic of the Congo
(2013-10-01)This document proposes a water quality sampling and analysis strategy to be implemented within the VEA water safety framework. The WSP steps of water quality monitoring and verification are integrated as presented in the ... -
Water savings through cleaner production in the brewery sector
(UNEP, 2006)This technical report provides guidance to managers and other professionals concerned with the brewery sector, on how to achieve water savings by applying the Cleaner Production (CP) approach. The report also addresses ... -
Water statistics in the state of Qatar 2013
(2013)Water is life! Therefore, the protection of our national natural freshwater resources is part of our National Development Strategy. Qatar’s main source of water is desalination of seawater for drinking water supply and ... -
Water statistics in the state of Qatar 2013
(2013)Water is life! Therefore, the protection of our national natural freshwater resources is part of our National Development Strategy. Qatar’s main source of water is desalination of seawater for drinking water supply and ...