Author: Alfonso RiveraPublisher:
ISBN: 9781554552924
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
Canada's Groundwater Resources
Author: Alfonso RiveraPublisher:
ISBN: 9781554552924
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
Canadian Framework for Collaboration on Groundwater
Author: Alfonso RiveraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
"The availability and quality of Canada's groundwater is under considerable stress due to increasing demands, sources of contamination, changing land-use patterns, and climate-change impacts. Although the provinces have programs to protect and manage their groundwater resources, there is currently no nationally shared vision on how to do this. As a result there is considerable inconsistency in programs, regulations, services, etc. across Canada. This report describes a framework for a nationally consistent program to manage Canada's groundwater resources, and presents a mechanism to promote and implement the several national groundwater management issues"--Abstract.
Groundwater Issues and Research in Canada : a Report Prepared for the Canadian Geoscience Council by the Task Force on Groundwater Resources Research
Author: Cherry, John APublisher: Canadian Geoscience Council = Conseil géoscientifique canadien
ISBN: 9781895630060
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Water Resources of North America
Author: Asit K. BiswasPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662108682
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Leonardo da Vinci, the eminent Renaissance scholar and philosopher said, "water is the driver of nature". Many may have considered it to be an overstatement in the past, but at the beginning of the third millennium, no sane individual would disagree with Leonardo's view. Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource for most of the world's citizens. The current trends indicate that the overall situation is likely to deteriorate further, at least for the next two decades, unless the water profession eschews its existing "business as usual" practices, which can only allow incremental changes to occur. Somewhat surprisingly, the water profession as a whole neither realised nor appreciated the gravity of the global water situation as late as 1990, even though a few serious scholars have been pointing out the increasing criticality of the situation from around 1982. For example, the seriousness of the crisis was not a major issue, either at the International Conference on W ater and the Environment, which was organised by the UN system in Dublin and also at the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro. Held in 1992, both are considered to be important events for the water sector of the past decade. It is now being increasingly recognised that the Dublin Conference was poorly planned and organised, and thus not surprisingly it produced very little, if any, worthwhile and lasting results.
Eau Canada
Author: Karen BakkerPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840099
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
As the sustainability of our natural resources is increasingly questioned, Canadians remain stubbornly convinced of the unassailability of our water. Mounting evidence suggests, however, that Canadian water is under threat. Eau Canada assembles the country's top water experts to discuss our most pressing water issues. Perspectives from a broad range of thinkers � geographers, environmental lawyers, former government officials, aquatic and political scientists, and economists � reflect the diversity of concerns in water management. Arguing that weak governance is at the heart of Canada's water problems, this timely book identifies our key failings, explores debates over jurisdiction, transboundary waters, exports, and privatization, and maps out solutions for protecting our most important resource.
Canadian Framework for Collaboration on Groundwater
Author: Alfonso RiveraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The availability and quality of Canada's groundwater is under considerable stress due to increasing demands, sources of contamination, changing land-use patterns, and climate-change impacts. Although the provinces have programs to protect and manage their groundwater resources, there is currently no nationally shared vision on how to do this. As a result there is considerable inconsistency in programs, regulations, services, etc. across Canada. This report describes a framework for a nationally consistent program to manage Canada's groundwater resources, and presents a mechanism to promote and implement the several national groundwater management issues"--Abstract.
Groundwater in Canada
Author: Geological Survey of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Canada
Author: The Expert Panel on GroundwaterPublisher: Council of CanadianAcademies
ISBN: 1926558111
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF GROUNDWATER IN CANADA The Expert Panel on Groundwater Council of Canadian Academies Science Advice in the Public Interest Conseil des académies canadiennes THE COUNCIL OF CANADIAN ACADEMIES 180 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON Canada K2P 2K3 NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was undertaken with the approval of the Board of Governors of the Council of Can [...] THE COUNCIL OF CANADIAN ACADEMIES Science Advice in the Public Interest The mandate of the Council of Canadian Academies (the Council) is to perform independent, expert assessments of the science that is relevant to important public issues. [...] The Council is governed by a 12-member board, a majority of whom are appointed directly or indirectly by the Council's three member Academies - the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada. [...] The founding members of the Council are: RSC: The Academy of the Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists, scholars and artists. [...] The Canadian Academy of Engineering comprises many of the country's most accomplished engineers, who have expressed their dedication to the application of science and engineering principles in the interests of the country and its enterprises.
Water Resources Review, United States and Canada
Author: Intensive Use of Groundwater:
Author: M. Ramon LlamasPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9789058093905
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This text is written by a number of authors from different countries and disciplines, affording the reader an invaluable and unbiased perspective on the subject of intensive groundwater development. Based on information gathered from the experience of many countries over the last decades, the text aims to present a clear discussion on the conventional hydrogeological aspects of intensive groundwater use, along with the ecological, legal, institutional, economic and social challenges. Divided into two main sections, the first group of authors put forward the positive and negative aspects of intensive groundwater use, whilst a second group provide an overview of the situation specific countries face as a consequence of this phenomenon. Fully revised and up-to-date, Groundwater Intensive Use makes a significant number of discoveries in a subject area that is topical in today's climate.