Holdings: Sink or Swim—Toward Water Security for All

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Sink or Swim—Toward Water Security for All

Harnessing the productive potential of water and limiting its destructive impacts have challenged the human species since its origins. Many of the earliest civilizations, particularly those on the floodplains of the world's major rivers, succe...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ALLOCATION OF WATER BULK WATER CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE VARIABILITY DAMS DEMAND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DRAINAGE DRILLING RIGS DROUGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FLOOD MANAGEMENT FLOODS GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT HYDROLOGY IRRIGATION LOCAL COMMUNITIES MANAGEMENT OF WATER MANAGING WATER RESOURCES POLICY MAKERS POPULATION GROWTH POVERTY ALLEVIATION PRESSURE PUMPING PUMPING RATES PUMPS QUALITY OF WATER RAINFALL RESERVOIRS RIVERS STORAGE CAPACITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRADEOFFS WATER DEVELOPMENT WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WATER MANAGEMENT WATER PRICING WATER PROJECTS WATER QUALITY WATER RESOURCE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATER RIGHTS WATER SECTOR WATER STORAGE WATER SUPPLIES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/9677333/sink-or-swim-toward-water-security-all http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11759

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/9677333/sink-or-swim-toward-water-security-all
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11759