Water Resources

IWRM guidelines at river basin level Part 1: principles

Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at the river basin level is an essential element to managing water resources more sustainably, leading to long-term social, economic and environmental benefits.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
UNESCO
Tags:
Environment, Agriculture, Water Resources, Water Management, Climate Change, Floods, Drought, Urbanisation, Hydrology, River Basin, Land Use
Dams/ Irrigation

Dam boom in Himalayas will create mountains of risk

The Himalaya is one of the fastest changing regions of the world due to global warming. The mountains

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Ann-Kathrin Schneider
World Rivers Review
24
1
1
Tags:
Himalaya, Rivers, Dams/ Irrigation, Dams, Dam Safety, Climate Change, Global Warming, Glacial Melt, Floods, Hydroelectricity, Hydrology, Bhutan, China, Nepal, India, South Asia
Dams/ Irrigation

Ethiopia's Gibe 3 dam endangers Kenyas Lake Turkana

Lake Turkana is a miraculous anomaly of life-giving water in a parched and unforgiving land. Formed millions of years ago in the tectonic upheavals that created East Africa

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Ikal Angelei
World Rivers Review
24
1
1
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecosystems, Lakes, Dams/ Irrigation, Dams, Riverine Ecology, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Hydroelectricity, Tribals, Hydrology, <