Search for dissertations about: "water supply activities"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words water supply activities.
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1. Challenges and Opportunities For Safe Water Supply in Mozambique
University dissertation from Department of Water Resources Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund UniversityAbstract : In Mozambique, despite considerable investments in the promotion of drinking water supplies, the access to quality water of sufficient quantity for the majority of people is still far from optimal. Current official figures report that nearly half of the country´s population and about 45 per cent of urban residents do not have access to safe water. READ MORE
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2. Irrigation water management : A performance study of the Rahad scheme in Sudan, 1977-1996
University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis UpsaliensisAbstract : The central objectives of this study is to assess the performance of irrigation water management of the Rahad scheme in Sudan between 1977 and 1996.The study assesses how well the scheme has succeeded in achieving irrigation management objectives using the criteria of productivity, equity, cost recovery and environmental stability. READ MORE
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3. Water management and performance on local and global scales A comparison between two regions and their possibilities of knowledge transfer
University dissertation from Stockholm : Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of TechnologyAbstract : The problem to secure safe water supply, good sanitation and a good watercourse and marine environment status has become increasingly complex and at the same time more and more important to meet. It has been recognized, that an integrated approach must be used to meet not only technical and scientific aspects, but the role should also be included of factors such as economics, acceptability, capacity building, and efficient management in the overall view. READ MORE
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4. Sustainable Development and Urban Water Management Linking Theory and Practice of Economic Criteria
University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic PressAbstract : The interest in using criteria and indicators for assessing activities in relation to sustainable development is increasing. This dissertation analyses the potential for using economic criteria for assessment of urban water management in relation to sustainable development. The analysis consists of three parts. READ MORE
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5. Stewardship in an urban world Civic engagement and human–nature relations in the Anthropocene
University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic PressAbstract : Never before have humans wielded a greater ability to alter and disrupt planetary processes. Our impact is becoming so noticeable that a new geological epoch has been proposed – the Anthropocene – in which Earth systems might no longer maintain the stable and predictable conditions of the past 12 millennia. READ MORE
