Sustaining Local Water Sources: The Need for Sustainable Water Management in the Hill Towns of the Eastern Himalayas

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Lakpa Tamang ◽  
Ashish Chhetri ◽  
Abhijit Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Sustainable Water Management ◽  
Eastern Himalayas ◽  
Local Water ◽  
The Hill

Issues in sustainable water management of irrigation systems in Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.C. Sirimewan1 ◽  
◽  
N.H.C. Manjula ◽  
A. Samaraweera ◽  
A.P.K.D. Mendis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Irrigation Systems ◽  
Sustainable Water Management

Living with water: at the cross-roads of change

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost de Jong ◽  
Peter T. J. C. van Rooy ◽  
S. Harry Hosper
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The People ◽  
Global Perception ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Water Quality Deterioration ◽  
The Way

Until the last two decades, the global perception of how to control our various water bodies was remarkably similar – water management was organised on a sectoral basis, as it always had been. It was only in the 1970s that the people actually responsible for implementing water management began to become aware of the serious implications of such an approach: water quality deterioration, desiccation and an alarming loss of the flora and fauna that characterised their local water environment. It was a growing awareness that led to the formation of the concept of integrated water management, a concept almost universally accepted today as the way forward. However, despite the fact that few dispute the validity of the concept, a number of obstacles remain before this theoretical agreement can be transformed into practical action. Three main bottlenecks stand in the way of implementation: institutional, communicational and socio-political. Whilst solutions to these are available, the key question still to be answered is whether society is really prepared to accept the consequent changes in the way we live that will result from putting the theory of integrated water management into practice. It was this issue that dominated the “Living with water” conference held in Amsterdam in September 1994. The following is a summary of the discussions held there and the various papers that were submitted.

SQIRTS - an on-site stormwater treatment and reuse approach to sustainable water management in Sydney

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Dallmer
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
City Council ◽  
Stormwater Treatment ◽  
Stormwater Quality ◽  
Construction Monitoring ◽  
Sustainable Water Management ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Main Components

This paper describes part of a program undertaken by South Sydney City Council to promote sustainable water management The aim of the project, named SQIRTS (Stormwater Quality Improvement & Reuse Treatment Scheme) was to demonstrate best-practice water management approaches, to learn from the process of implementing these, and to encourage the further use of these technologies. It comprises three main components located in a suburban park: a gross pollutant trap (GPT), a stormwater reuse system, and interpretative artworks that aim to educate and interpret the water processes within the park. Results from the pre-construction monitoring program are presented.

Supply and Demand Planning for Water: A Sustainable Water Management System

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M.H.N Athapaththu ◽  
D.U.S Illeperumarachchi ◽  
H.M.K.U Herath ◽  
H.K Jayasinghe ◽  
W.H. Rankothge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Sustainable Water Management ◽  
Water Management System ◽  
Demand Planning

The Pre-Hispanic Maya Reservoir System at Kinal, Peten, Guatemala

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon L. Scarborough ◽  
Robert P. Connolly ◽  
Steven P. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Water Management System ◽  
Reservoir System ◽  
System Characteristic ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Lowland Maya

AbstractThe southern Lowland Maya hilltop center of Kinal is shown to be a human-modified watershed. The broad paved surfaces of the elevated central precinct acted as runoff-catchment areas directing precipitation into gravity-fed channels and reservoirs. In a geographical zone affected by an extended dry season and away from permanent water sources, Kinal demonstrates the components of a rainfall-dependent water-management system characteristic of other large sites in the region.

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