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The greening of water law: managing freshwater resources for people and the environment [1]

Governments and law-makers need to integrate environmental concerns into water-use legislation to avert an impending global water crisis, according to this new UNEP report launched at World Water Week in Stockholm. 

 

 

The greening of water law is both a theoretical and practical effort to implement that harmony through modification of the legal regime governing the management and allocation of freshwater resources. It is based on the recognition that the life and wellbeing of people and the natural environment are interrelated and even interdependent and that the coordination of the needs of these two water-dependent stakeholders will further the sustainable use of freshwater resources for both. It is also founded on the notion that by ensuring adequate supplies of clean freshwater for the environment, people, communities, and nations, the human condition can be enhanced through improved health and more sustainable resource exploitation and economic development.

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Report: Water in a changing world 
 
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Report: Sick water?: the central role of wastewater management in sustainable development
 
Report: Waters of the third pole 
 
Report: Freshwater under threat: South Asia 
 
 
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Publication Date: 
01/08/2010
UNEP [9]
Tags:
Water Resources [10], Environment [11], Water Policy [12], Freshwater Ecosystems [13], Global [14], India [15], Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) [16], Water Pollution [17], Groundwater [18], Water Supply [19], Water Management [20]

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