This water policy is exactly the outcome that stakeholders should be heralding and seeking to encourage.
John Griffiths AM announced that he would be making a statement on water policy in due course.
Add to this red-tape in planning and financing new reservoirs and you have a strong case for a national water policy.
Nothing sums up these muddled priorities so much as water policy.
This international review of participatory water governance forms an important resource for academic researchers in hydrology, environmental management and water policy, and also practitioners and policy-makers working in water management.
Works Minister S. Samy Vellu, the man in the hot seat, is proposing changes that would completely overhaul Malaysia's water policy -- or, one might say, actually put one in place.
Among his recommendations: improving protection of catchment areas, implementing a national water policy, replacing the creaky pipes that carry the precious liquid to people's homes, and making wasters pay more for water.
The LAM demonstrates, in a concrete way, how water law and science need to interact in order to provide transboundary watercourse States with the guidance necessary to devise an effective national water policy.
According to a recent report sponsored by the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, of the ten American states that will grow fastest between now and 2025, five are in the Colorado basin.
As a user of tens of billions of gallons of water in its food and beverage operations globally, including in many nations facing water shortages, PepsiCo has recently adopted a water policy dedicated to fulfilling the human right to water as defined by the United Nations.
An approach to integrated catchment management by building a framework for water law and policy experts, water resource managers and water scientists to work together on water-related problems.
In federal water desalination policy, why the politically preferred brackish groundwater desalination instead of seawater?
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Most municipal infrastructure projects tend to be conservative and follow the last 100 years of water management policy: centralized processing and hard infrastructure.
This book presents a current and global synthesis of scientific findings and policy recommendations for scientists, water managers and policy makers towards adaptive management of groundwater sustainability under future climate change and variability.
The interview, conducted by Mr. Bert Diphoorn, UN-Water vice chair, shed light on international water strategy and policy and the effectiveness of collaboration to achieve water sustainability and to meet global demand for potable water, as well as on the role of the water-food-energy nexus in sustainable growth.
In the process, the skills and experience of both local water professionals and policy-makers are engaged and enhanced.
In the UK, the Centre of Water Law, Policy and Science is based at the University of Dundee have been heavily involved in the programme.
After a career spanning 35 years at the British Geological Survey, Mike went on to help set up the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management at Oxford University.
Having fought to protect lakes, rivers and streams as a legislator, he now plans to get all regional water and sewage policy under his thumb as firmly as he has the roads.
"A Northern Ireland Executive could decide to reverse the policy on water charges, " it said.
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Second, that even if Alliance does make progress it will require the bigger parties to break their anti-water charges pledges before the policy can become reality.
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Water experts applaud the new policy, saying it puts a proper emphasis on conservation: lower-basin states must now pay attention to the water they have, instead of plotting to get still more from the upper-basin states.
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While different sectors can be in competition over water, it is clear that all the benefits of water are required for sustainable economic development, and therefore green policy should be based on the premise that water unpins the entire green process.
Can Watts Water legitimately now argue that the policy that underlies these payments was a complete surprise?
Though a great vote-grabber, the policy encourages farmers to pump water up from their tube-wells both day and night.
One way to control water usage would be a rational pricing policy.
"Evidence suggests that many vulnerable consumers are paying more than 3% of income for water...this is a higher percentage of income than the government's own guidelines on what is right for them to pay, " Teresa Evans, head of policy and strategy at CC Water, said.
If anything, I am carrying water for immigrants, and for better economic policy.
It gathers together political leaders, policy and decision-makers, water specialists, water providers, civil society, water educators, media, and a wide range of stakeholders.
Contributions were drawn from the fields of hydrological sciences, freshwater policy, international basin management and operational water supply.
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