Download or read book Global Costs and Benefits of Drinking water Supply and Sanitation Interventions to Reach the MDG Target and Universal Coverage written by Guy Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Globally, large numbers of people remain without access to basic levels of drinkingwater supply and sanitation (WSS). According to data compiled by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), in 2010 783 million people continued to use unimproved sources to meet their drinking-water needs and 2.5 billion people continued to use an unimproved sanitation facility or defecate in the open. One of the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation, with 1990 as the baseline year. According to the JMP, the rate of progress towards achieving this target is such that the target will not be reached in its entirety by 2015. While the drinking-water target was met in 2010, sanitation is still considerably off-track. Based on the most recent estimates sanitation coverage must increase globally from 63% to 75% between 2010 and 2015. At the current rate of progress, sanitation coverage is predicted to be 67% in 2015, 580 million people short of the MDG target."--Page 3.
Download or read book Global Costs of Attaining the Millennium Development Goal for Water Supply and Sanitation written by G. Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water for Life written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO UNICEF monitoring programme for water supply and sanitation
Download or read book Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combination of safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities is a precondition for health and for success in the fight against poverty, hunger, child deaths and gender inequality. In adopting the Millennium Development Goals, the countries of the world pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, the world is well on its way to meeting the drinking water target by 2015, but progress in sanitation is stalled in many developing regions . This report provides the latest estimates and trends on where we stand today.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Valuing Water Valuing Livelihoods written by John Cameron and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives decision makers, health professionals and analysts a comprehensive view of the arguments and challenges associated with establishing the value of drinking-water interventions. The experts who have contributed to this publication provide guidance on assessing the benefits from improving access to safe drinking water and from reducing the burden of water-related diseases. They show how to compare the value of these benefits to the costs of the interventions, with special reference to small-scale drinking water systems.
Download or read book Delivering Universal and Sustainable Water Services written by Menzies and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Management towards Sustainability written by Prasad Modak and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about understanding challenges in managing our environment and ensuring sustainability of this planet. It presents the critical state of our resources and threats to resource security due to overconsumption, pollution and poor and uneven governance. Role of key stakeholders such as the Government, Financing Institutions, Business and Communities is important. These stakeholders need to collaborate at multiple levels – viz. Local, Regional, National and Global. Chapters are devoted to describing the role of the above stakeholders with numerous case studies. The book can serve as a textbook to academia, a reference for policy makers and planners and a resource for conducting continuing education programs for the professionals to introduce both the concepts and practice experience on sustainability.
Download or read book Swachh Bharat written by Mridula Sinha, Dr. R.K. Sinha and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an Indian household; the cleaning up of the house is the first step towards the celebration of an approaching festival. Not only it is hygienic but the symbolic significance of the festival is enhanced many times by this act of cleaning. It symbolizes purity of mind and clarity of thoughts before one goes to pray and celebrate an event of importance. These acts lead us to the attainment of the ultimate elation; where the body is in the pink of health and the mind is in the depths of joy. Such insight and farsightedness in thought and actions have been the hallmark of the Indian history. These actions are nothing but the manifestations of our rich cultural heritage. A festival is a symbol of a prosperous society and a rich culture; it signifies growth and development. Therefore; any development; any growth is no less than a festival and the primary step to a celebration; which starts with cleanliness. For India; ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ is nothing but the first step towards celebrating development and prosperity. Certainly this book will facilitate the fulfillment of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Swachh Bharat by Mridula Sinha, Dr. R.K. Sinha: Explore the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign) and its significance in promoting cleanliness and sanitation. Mridula Sinha and Dr. R.K. Sinha likely provide insights into the campaign's objectives, implementation, and impact on India's cleanliness drive. It offers readers a comprehensive understanding of this nationwide initiative. Key Aspects of the Book "Swachh Bharat": Clean India Campaign: Learn about the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, its origins, and its goals. Promoting Sanitation: Explore the importance of cleanliness and sanitation in the context of public health and environmental well-being. Mridula Sinha and Dr. R.K. Sinha likely shed light on the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in "Swachh Bharat." This book aims to raise awareness about the importance of cleanliness and hygiene in India.
Download or read book Geographies of Health and Development written by Rachel Bezner Kerr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the dialectic relationships between health and development. Health problems in a developing context take on much higher rates of prevalence as a result of the varied cultural, structural and economic vulnerabilities of the people they impact. This book begins by exploring some of the circumstances surrounding the distinctive health inequities currently facing many developing countries, including malaria, maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS. This is followed by a discussion of how matters of physical access and human resource issues and, perhaps most importantly, the challenges of financing, together shape the access and utilization of health care. Examining how the environment interacts to influence the health of the people that live there, the next section includes discussion around challenges of food (in)security, and the importance of clean and uncontaminated water for health. Finally, the book explores the influence of globalization on health, specifically within the urban environment, against the backdrop of global health policy.
Download or read book Water Infrastructure written by Cecilia Tortajada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management. Together with institutions, policies and regulation, it provides basic services to growing populations, especially in developing countries, where much of the growth is taking place. In the Asia-Pacific region, for instance, populations are growing not only in size but also in affluence, straining further the existing infrastructure and demanding urgently the development of a new one. While 79% of total water use in Asia occurs in agriculture, the fastest increases in demand are emanating from industry and from urban areas. This trend is a natural consequence of the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history. By 2030, more than 55% of Asia’s population will live in urban areas, an increase of 1.1 billion people. Nevertheless, water infrastructure is of concern not only in the global South but also in the North, where much of the drinking-water infrastructure needs upgrading or replacement, a significant undertaking as infrastructure is more than a hundred years old in many cases. The American Water Works Association estimates that changing all of the water pipes in the United States would cost more than USD 1 trillion. In this book, in-depth case studies on water infrastructure challenges and policy solutions are presented from different parts of the world. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Download or read book One World Health written by Lord Nigel Crisp and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brand new textbook presents a new approach to the teaching and understanding of global health. It describes the shared opportunities but also the problems that we all face, wherever we live, and the particular needs of the poorest people in every society. Covering subjects from epidemics and climate change, the need to staff and resource health services appropriately, the rich potential of science and technology, and the impacts of social and political change in the world around us, all is presented at a level appropriate for the student looking to gain an understanding of this broad and developing area.
Download or read book Emerging Membrane Technology for Sustainable Water Treatment written by Rajindar Singh and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Membrane Technology for Sustainable Water Treatment provides the latest information on the impending crisis posed by water stress and poor sanitation, a timely issue that is one of the greatest human challenges of the 21st century. The book also discusses the use of membrane technology, a serious contender that can be used to confront the crisis on a global scale, along with its specific uses as a solution to this escalating problem. - Provides a unique source on membrane technology and its application for water treatment - Focuses on technologies designed for the treatment of seawater and brackish water - Highlights the most economically and environmentally friendly membrane technologies - Lists various technologies and emphasizes their link to renewable energy, energy efficiency, nanotechnology, reuse, and recycle
Download or read book Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) reports every two years on progress towards the drinking-water and sanitation target under Millennium Development Goal 7. This target calls for halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 and 2015. Estimates presented in its 2012 update report describe the situation at the end 2010 and supersede those of the JMP update published in March 2010.--Publisher description.
Download or read book Charting the Water Regulatory Future written by Julien Chaisse and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the issues, challenges and directions currently faced by water as a key resource for mankind. The book aims at providing a finer understanding of the water regulatory future. The contributions in this book are grouped around specific themes. In Part I, the contributions address the water challenge to public international law. In Part II, the authors explore the most pressing ethical, legal, and social issues. In Part III, the discussion covers the economic drivers shaping the future of water.
Download or read book Economies of Collaboration in Performance written by Karen Savage and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about collaboration in the arts, which explores how working together seems to achieve more than the sum of the parts. It introduces ideas from economics to conceptualize notions of externalities, complementarity, and emergence, and playfully explores collaborative structures such as the swarm, the crowd, the flock, and the network. It uses up-to-date thinking about Wikinomics, Postcapitalism, and Biopolitics, underpinned by ideas from Foucault, Bourriaud, and Hardt and Negri. In a series of thought-provoking case studies, the authors consider creative practices in theatre, music and film. They explore work by artists such as Gob Squad, Eric Whitacre, Dries Verhoeven, Pete Wyer, and Tino Seghal, and encounter both live and online collaborative possibilities in fascinating discussions of Craigslist and crowdfunding at the Edinburgh Festival. What is revealed is that the introduction of Web 2.0 has enabled a new paradigm of artistic practice to emerge, in which participatory encounters, collaboration, and online dialogue become key creative drivers. Written itself as a collaborative project between Karen Savage and Dominic Symonds, this is a strikingly original take on the economics of working together.
Download or read book New Challenges in Sustainable Development for Russia and the World written by Alexander S. Bulatov and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers profound analyses of the main theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of sustainable development: namely, current environmental problems; the building of green economies; climate policies; specifics of international cooperation in the sphere of sustainable development; specific features of business and government involvement in implementing sustainable development; the role of civil society; its social and gender aspects; and specific characteristics of national models of sustainable development. The focus on the international aspects of the implementation of sustainable development ideas makes the insights offered here fresh and unique. This book will be useful for academics, managers, students, and teaching staff of higher education institutions.
Download or read book Water Governance Challenges and Prospects written by Amarjit Singh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first of its kind to deal with almost the entire swath of water resources assessment, development and sustainable management. The idea of the book crystallized during the long journey of the Editors on various facets of water issues in India and abroad during their extended association, at all levels with the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, as well as International Organizations dealing with water. Currently water-stressed, India is likely to become water scarce in not too distant a future. The global freshwater supply and its sustainable use for human consumption, and conservation of the ecosystem have never come under such a rigorous scrutiny before. The unplanned and reckless exploitation of this precious resource have led to a crisis situation, compounded by a real threat of climate change. This book is, therefore, timely and of particular relevance not only to India but the entire world. The book contains 20 chapters, beside the lead article by the Editors. The chapters are contributed by the eminent professionals, researchers, academicians and civil society representatives having an in-depth understanding of the issues. The contents of the chapters have been chosen to represent all aspects of water. The assessment of water resources using satellite data and in-depth analyses of groundwater sector like, the Aquifer Mapping Programme initiated by Government of India, application of gravity satellite data to assess the resource build up, artificial recharge of aquifers and its contamination, are dealt with by eminent experts. The articles on sustainable management of water through good governance by community participation and involvement of civil society are placed. Flood management both through a basin level approach as well as by building resilience in vulnerable areas is discussed. Other critical issues like water bodies management, constitutional provisions, water governance and financial issues, hydro-power and need of research and development in this sector are also dealt with aptly. In view of emerging crisis and complexities in this sector the future pathways and the paradigm shift that is required in administrative and policy level is also discussed.
