Water as an inescapable risk : current global water availability, quality and risks with a specific focus on South Africa /: current global water availability, quality and risks with a specific focus on South Africa. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anja du Plessis.
• Authors: Du Plessis, Anja
• Contents: Part 1: Water as a Global Risk.- Ch.1 Current and Future Water Availability.- Ch.2 Current and Future Water Scarcity and Stress.- Ch.3 Climate Change: Current Drivers, Observations and Impacts on the Globe's Natural and Human Systems.- Ch.4 Climate Change and Freshwater Resources: Current Observations, Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Future Risks.- Ch.5 Primary Water Quality Challenges, Contaminants and the World's Dirtiest Places.- Ch.6 Water as a Source of Conflict and Global Risk.- Part 2: Water as a Regional and National Risk.- Ch.7 Evaluation of southern and South Africa's Freshwater Resources.- Ch.8 Establishing South Africa's Current Water Quality Risk Areas.- Ch.9 Current Water Quality Risk Areas for Limpopo, Olifants and the Inkomati-Usuthu WMAs.- Ch.10 Current Water Quality Risk Areas for Vaal, Pongola-Mtamvuna and Orange WMAs.- Ch.11 Current Water Quality Risk Areas for Berg-Olifants, Breede-Gouritz and Mzimvubu-Tsitsikamma WMAs.- Ch.12 South Africa's Water Reality: Challenges, Solutions, Actions and a Way Forward.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.610968; Water-supply -- South Africa; Water quality -- South Africa; Water -- Pollution -- South Africa; Water resources development -- South Africa; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Water -- Pollution; Water quality; Water resources development; Water-supply; South Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030031862; 3030031861
• Related ISBNs: 9783030031855; 3030031853
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 18, 2018).
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