Tanvi Agrawal, Rinan Shah, Rashmi Mahajan, A. Vora
{"title":"Book review - Cultivating the Nile: the everyday politics of water in Egypt","authors":"Tanvi Agrawal, Rinan Shah, Rashmi Mahajan, A. Vora","doi":"10.53014/iuxo9352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/iuxo9352","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of “Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt” written by Jessica Barnes (2014). The book presents the everyday interactions of the communities and the state with the Nile River.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121527242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vasco Schelbert, Dario Meili, S. Simiyu, Mahbub Alam, P. Antwi-Agyei, C. Luthi
{"title":"Quality determinants of shared sanitation facilities in low-income urban settlements","authors":"Vasco Schelbert, Dario Meili, S. Simiyu, Mahbub Alam, P. Antwi-Agyei, C. Luthi","doi":"10.53014/hzgg5241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/hzgg5241","url":null,"abstract":"The QUISS project identifies the key criteria of ‘acceptable quality’ shared toilets in low-income urban contexts and provides recommendations for strengthening the acceptability, functionality and sustainability of shared sanitation facilities.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114239643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"forWater: Managing Canada’s drinking water from catchment to tap","authors":"A. Webb","doi":"10.53014/hxnk9240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/hxnk9240","url":null,"abstract":"‘forWater’ is a network of Canadian researchers from multiple institutions who aim to find innovative solutions to address climate change impacts on forested source water, the downstream effects, water treatability and resource economics.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114416195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dams out of the Blue: Mongolia’s Blue Horse Program","authors":"E. Simonov","doi":"10.53014/nfhv6162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/nfhv6162","url":null,"abstract":"Mongolia’s Blue Horse Program risks causing irreversible harm to transboundary rivers and internationally recognised protected areas. With 44 dams are planned on 23 of Mongolia’s 25 rivers the impact will be significant in the water-scarce country.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116853170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More than just a human right: water challenges in the Chilean constitutional convention","authors":"Camilo Guzman","doi":"10.53014/yczn7753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/yczn7753","url":null,"abstract":"The Chilean social outburst was politically channeled into the drafting of a new constitution. The country is currently facing a mega-drought and therefore one of the key constitutional debates is water property and management.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127824503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Budgeting water safety and security of India - Pathways to a sustainable future","authors":"T. Deshmukh","doi":"10.53014/asyw5245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/asyw5245","url":null,"abstract":"Supplying piped water to households has become an increasing priority across India. The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) was launched by the Indian Government in 2019 to provide a Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural household by 2024.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133365416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing food with less water: Chilean research team finds solutions in extreme environments","authors":"A. Webb","doi":"10.53014/chus2517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/chus2517","url":null,"abstract":"Droughts pose a growing risk to food security. Glasshouse experiments show that tomatoes inoculated with rhizobacteria from ephemeral flowering desert plants exhibit greater rates of survival and growth when subjected to periods of water stress.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121508020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intergovernmental River Basin Management: The Role of the International Joint Commission in the Great Lakes Basin between the United States and Canada","authors":"Shannon Bushinsky","doi":"10.53014/ivmm2087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/ivmm2087","url":null,"abstract":"The International Joint Commission (IJC) is an independent agency that guides Canada and the United States on how to settle disputes involving their 13 transboundary river basins. The IJC’s river basin management methods can be evaluated by using 10 principles, and its techniques can be modelled by other international transboundary water organisations. The 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement serves as a case study that demonstrates how the IJC responds to situations in an immense and historically disputed basin.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116370080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancing integrity in urban water and sanitation: WIGO report 2021","authors":"A. Webb","doi":"10.53014/waru5700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/waru5700","url":null,"abstract":"As the proportion of the global population living in urban areas increases, major challenges in providing safe drinking water and sanitation services need to be overcome, particularly in marginalised communities and informal settlements where services are already deficient. Strategies to provide water and sanitation are often undermined by corruption and integrity failures in the management of public resources, ‘petty corruption’ at the interface between individuals and institutions, and issues of inequitable and discriminatory planning and pricing. In the Water Integrity Global Outlook (WIGO 2021), WIN outlines successful strategies, tools and processes to reduce corruption and improve integrity by governments, utilities, the private sector, regulatory bodies, the media, NGOs and ultimately citizens, to drive improvements in the provision of reliable water and sanitation services.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131627684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wildfires increasingly impact rivers and water supplies","authors":"A. Webb","doi":"10.53014/pgit1123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/pgit1123","url":null,"abstract":"Wildfires are increasing in frequency, severity, duration and extent with potentially catastrophic impacts on river systems and water supplies. Scientists are quantifying these impacts and studying the underlying factors driving the susceptibility of landscapes to post-fire erosion in a changing climate. Recommended actions include: (1) rapid response water monitoring during and after fires, (2) citizen science and (3) machine learning to provide communities with data and predicted impacts in near real-time.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134009215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}