Water management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and optimum use of water resources under defined water polices and regulations. It may mean:
- management of water treatment Water treatment describes those processes used to make water more acceptable for a desired end-use. These can include use as drinking water, industrial processes, medical and many other uses. The goal of all water treatment process is to remove existing contaminants in the water, or reduce the concentration of such contaminants so the water of drinking water Drinking water is water of sufficiently high quality that it can be consumed or used without risk of immediate or long term harm. Such water is commonly called potable water. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry is all of drinking water standard, even though only a very small proportion is actually, industrial water, sewage Sewage is water-carried wastes, in either solution or suspension, that flow away from a community. Also known as wastewater flows, sewage is the used water supply of the community. It is more than 99.9% pure water and is characterized by its volume or rate of flow, its physical condition, its chemical constituents, and the bacteriological or wastewater Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence. It comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences, commercial properties, industry, and/or agriculture and can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations. In the most common usage, it refers to the municipal wastewater
- management of water resources Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. Uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water
- management of flood A flood is an overflow or accumulation of an expanse of water that submerges land. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levies, with the result that some of the water protection
- management of Irrigatio
- management of the water table
- International Journal of Water Resources Development, ISSN: 1360-0648 (electronic) 0790-0627 (paper), Routledge Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books and journals. It was acquired in 1997 by, and is thus now an imprint of, the Taylor & Francis Group, which is a sub-division of Informa PLC, a company based in the United Kingdom with offices worldwide. A majority of Routledge's books are based in the humanities and social sciences and all
- Ground Water Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock become completely saturated with water is called, ISSN: 1745-6584 (electronic) 0017-467X (paper), Blackwell Publishing Blackwell Publishing Ltd was a learned society publishing company based in Oxford, England. It was formed by the merger of two earlier Blackwell companies in 2001 and was taken over by John Wiley & Sons in 2007. Before the merger, Rene Olivieri was CEO of the company.[citation needed]
- Journal of the American Water Resources Association, ISSN: 1752-1688 (electronic) 1093-474X (paper), Blackwell Publishing
- Journal of Water and Health, ISSN: 1477-8920, IWA Publishing
- Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ISSN: 0733-9496, ASCE The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. ASCE's vision is to have engineers positioned as global leaders who strive toward building a better quality of life. Its world Publications
- Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology, ISSN: 0003-7214, IWA Publishing
- Urban Water Journal, ISSN: 1744-9006 (electronic) 1573-062X (paper), Taylor & Francis
- Water Asset Management International, ISSN: 1814-5442 (electronic) 1814-5434 (paper), IWA Publishing
- Water Intelligence Online, ISSN: 1476-1777, IWA Publishing
- Water Management Vaccination • Infection control • Safe sex • Hygiene • Sanitation (Sanitary sewer) • Waterborne diseases • Water management • Community-led total sanitation) • Vector control • Injury prevention • Patient safety (organization) •, ISSN: 1751-7729 (electronic) 1741-7589 (paper), Thomas Telford
- Water Policy, ISSN: 1366-7017, IWA Publishing
- Water Practice & Technology, ISSN: 1751-231X, IWA Publishing
- Water Research, ISSN: 0043-1354, IWA Publishing
- Water Resources Management, ISSN: 1573-1650 (electronic) 0920-4741 (paper), Springer
- Water Resources Research, ISSN: 0043-1397, American Geophysical Union
- Water Science and Technology, ISSN: 0273-1223, IWA Publishing
- Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, ISSN: 1606-9749, IWA Publishing
- Water Utility Management International, ISSN: 1747-776x (electronic), 1747-7751 (paper), IWA Publishing
Industrial resources
- Water Planning Tools, a research initiative which develops and pilots tools for managing water risk and water security in Australia
- SmartDitch, Solutions in Water Management
- e-Journal AWWA, ISSN 1551-8833, American Water Works Association American Water Works Association is an international non-profit professional organization dedicated to the improvement of water quality and supply. Founded in 1881, it claims a membership of around 60,000 members worldwide as of 2007
- eWater Cooperative Research Centre - Australian Government funded initiative supporting water management decision support tools
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See also
- Aquatic toxicology Aquatic toxicology is the study of the effects of manufactured chemicals and other anthropogenic and natural materials and activities on aquatic organisms at various levels of organization, from subcellular through individual organisms to communities and ecosystems
- Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management is an independent professional body and a registered charity, advancing the science and practice of water and environmental management for a clean, green and sustainable world
- Clean Water Act The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Commonly abbreviated as the CWA, the act established the goals of eliminating releases to water of high amounts of toxic substances, eliminating additional water pollution by 1985, and ensuring that surface waters would meet standards necessary for human
- Deficit irrigation
- EU water policy
- Hydrobiology Hydrobiology is the science of life and life processes in water. Much of modern hydrobiology can be viewed as a sub-discipline of ecology but the sphere of hydrobiology includes taxonomy, economic biology, industrial biology, morphology, physiology etc. The one distinguishing aspect is that all relate to aquatic organisms. Much work is closely
- Hydrology Hydrology is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout the Earth, and thus addresses both the hydrologic cycle and water resources. A practitioner of hydrology is a hydrologist, working within the fields of either earth or environmental science, physical geography or civil and environmental engineering
- Integrated Water Resources Management
- International Bottled Water Association The International Bottled Water Association, or IBWA, founded in 1958, is a trade association of companies in the bottled water industry
- International Water Association The International Water Association is a self-governing non-profit organization which aims to cover all facets of the water cycle. The body is headquartered in London, and operates through a board of directors, a strategic council, and various member groups
- Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (Netherlands)
- Oregon Water Trust
- Peak water Peak water is reached when the rate at which water is demanded is higher than the rate at which the supply is replenished. There is a vast amount of water on the planet but sustainably managed water is becoming scarce. Much of the world's water in underground aquifers and in lakes behaves like a finite resource by being depleted. The peak usage
- Public water supply Water supply is the process of self-provision or provision by third parties in the water industry, commonly a public utility, of water resources of various qualities to different users. Irrigation is covered separately
- Rainwater harvesting Rainwater harvesting is the gathering, or accumulating and storing, of rainwater. Rainwater harvesting has been used to provide household drinking water, water for livestock, water for irrigation and a way to refill aquifers in a process called groundwater recharge
- Seawater Seawater is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5%. This means that every 1 kg of seawater has approximately 35 grams of dissolved salts . The average density of seawater at the surface of the ocean is 1.025 g/ml; seawater is denser than freshwater (which reaches a maximum density of 1.000 - Desalination Desalination, desalinization, or desalinisation refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. More generally, desalination may also refer to the removal of salts and minerals, as in soil desalination
- Virtual water Virtual water refers, in the context of trade, to the water used in the production of a good or service. For instance, it takes 1,300 cubic meters of water on average to produce one metric tonne of wheat. The precise volume can be more or less depending on climatic conditions and agricultural practice. Hoekstra and Chapagain have defined the
- Water and sanitation in Latin America Water supply and sanitation in Latin America is characterized by insufficient access and in many cases by poor service quality, with detrimental impacts on public health. Water and sanitation services are provided by a vast array of mostly local service providers under an often fragmented policy and regulatory framework. Financing of water and
- Water conservation For crop irrigation, optimal water efficiency means minimizing losses due to evaporation or runoff. An Evaporation pan can be used to determine how much water is required to irrigate the land. Flood irrigation, the oldest and most common type, is often very uneven in distribution, as parts of a field may receive excess water in order to deliver
- Water distribution on Earth The oceanic crust is young, thin and dense, with none of the rocks within it dating from any older than the breakup of Pangaea. Because water is much denser than any gas, this means that water will flow into the "depressions" formed as a result of the high density of oceanic crust. . Since the low density rocks of the continental crust
- Water efficiency Though the two are often used interchangeably, there is a difference between water conservation and water efficiency. Water efficiency differs from water conservation in that it focuses on reducing waste. A proposition is that the key for efficiency is reducing waste, not restricting use. It also emphasises the influence consumers can have in
- Water management authorities
- Water law Water law is the field of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource. It is most closely related to property law, but has also become influenced by environmental law. Because water is vital to living things and to a variety of economic activities, laws attempting to govern it have far-reaching effects
- Water politics Water politics, sometimes called hydropolitics, is politics affected by water and water resources. The first use of the term, hydropolitics, came in the book by John Waterbury, entitled Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley, Syracuse University Press, 1979
- Water management hierarchy
- Water quality Water quality is the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water. It is most frequently used by reference to a set of standards against which compliance can be assessed. The most common standards used to assess water quality relate to drinking water, safety of human contact, and for health of ecosystems
- Water supply Water supply is the process of self-provision or provision by third parties in the water industry, commonly a public utility, of water resources of various qualities to different users. Irrigation is covered separately
- Water supply and sanitation by country Articles in this category describe institutional and financial aspects of water supply and sanitation sectors , as well as the benefits provided to users (outputs), in various countries. Articles use a similar structure in order to facilitate comparisons. Articles focus on access, water use, service quality, institutional responsibility (service
- Water transportation Due to its weight, the transportation of water is very energy intensive. Unless it has the assistance of gravity, a canal or long-distance pipeline will need pumping stations at regular intervals. In this regard, the lower friction levels of the canal make it a more economical solution than the pipeline. Water transportation is also very common
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