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Adapting water management to climate change [1]

Good water management is a much broader issue than supply of freshwater to thirsty populations. Ecosystems and biodiversity, agriculture and food security, land use and forestry, human health and sanitation, settlements and infrastructure, industry and energy all depend on good water management. The primary purpose of this policy brief is to suggest options that promote water management strategies that are already viable in terms of coping with present problems, and which will become even more urgent when projected climate change impacts are taken into account. Such strategies are sometimes referred to as

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
J. [2], Wilk [3], Wittgren [4], H.B. [5]
Stockholm International Water Institute [6]
Tags:
Himalaya [7], Agroforestry [8], Water Resources [9], Glaciers [10], Water Management [11], Water Harvesting [12], Climate Change [13], Climate Impacts [14], Climate Adaptation [15], India [16], Global [17], River Basin [18]

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