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by Asit Biswas, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow
COP26 will start in Glasgow, 31 October to 12 November 2021. The event will bring together governments to accelerate actions to achieve the goals that were ...
Urban Drainage Drought Flood Management Climate Change Urban Water Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Resilience Global Warming Reversal
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by Asit Biswas, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow
Globally, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent due to a warming planet which is changing climates. While scientifically it is still not possible ...
Drinking Water Security Water Security Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Water Security Climate Change Resilience Hydrology
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Singapore’s International Water Week highlights successes and notable failures PHOTO: street leica Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada POLICY FORUM | July ...
Social Water Security Water Supply Infrastructure Water Governance Water Policy
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Cecilia TortajadaCHANNEL NEWS ASIA | June 29, 2018SINGAPORE: Singapore’s water supply has come under the spotlight this week, following comments from ...
Government Water Pollution Policy
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Study region: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, Mexico; Texas, USA. Study focus: The objective of this study is to identify and classify the ...
Academic Aquifer Transboundary Water Resources Management Groundwater Pollution
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K Biswas take a look at what’s working and what isn’t in a world of water policy. Every year World Water Day aims to bring ...
Government Urban Drainage Smart City Urban Water Water Supply Urban Resource Management Water Management Urban Water Supply Urban Water Infrastructure Water Conservation urban water security
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Chapter of the book ‘ Assessing Global Water Megatrends’ , Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada and Philippe Rohner (Editors) Currently some 2.5–3.0 billion ...
Academic Water Security Water Supply Integrated Urban Water Management Integrated Water Management Water Supply Water Management
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Water resources are, and have always been, a multidimensional resource that crosses all social and economic sectors. Globally, growing population and ...
Academic Drinking Water Security Water Security Resource Management Urban Water Water Security Urban Resource Management Urban Water Supply Urban Drainage System Urban Water Infrastructure urban water security
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Cape Town’s current water crisis should be a wake-up call to improve urban water services across Africa. URBAN water and wastewater management have been ...
Government Crisis Water Resource Management Water Supply Drought Urban Water Water Supply Urban Resource Management Urban Water Supply Consumption Water Resource Management Government
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
The imminent shutdown of Cape Town’s piped water network should serve as a wake-up call for all of Africa to overhaul urban water-management systems. ...
Social Crisis Governance Integrated Water Management Drought Water Management Water Governance
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Tommy Kevin Lee and Cecilia Tortajada POLICY FORUM | February 12, 2018 From biomimicry to data analytics, Singapore is developing new technology to produce ...
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
The growing threat from natural disasters has led to a call for action to improve the planning of resilience measures, but many places are still unprepared in ...
Government Water Security Flood Management Urban Water Urban Resource Management Urban Water Supply Infrastructure Urban Water Infrastructure Infrastructure Management Flood prediction Flood Risk Management Water flood protection
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
To go from Third World to the top of the world, Singapore went for ‘soft’ options – like changing mindsets – and hard rules, such as the Land Acquisition Act ...
Academic Water Security Water Access Water Security Water Management Governance & Planning
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
During the past two decades, there have been only incremental advances in technology but no transformational developments in water solutions. Asit K Biswas ...
Water Policy Urban Water
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
More than technology and funds are needed to resolve the world’s clean water drinking problems, say two observers from NUS’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public ...
Policy Water Supply
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Water resources management is increasingly important for sustainable economic and social development. A coherent division of the development stages is of ...
Policy Technology Water Supply Infrastructure Governance & Planning
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Water scarcity has prompted an increasing number of cities to look for non-conventional sources of clean water. One of these sources is reused water, or highly ...
Potable Water Reuse & Recycling Technology
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
As population has grown, and as human needs have increased and expectations have changed, the natural environment that supports their growth has deteriorated, ...
Sustainable Development Sustainable Sanitation
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada THE CONVERSATION | March 19, 2019 In December 1992, the UN General Assembly declared 22 March World Water Day, to be ...
Government Water Management Water Resource Manager
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada THE GEOGRAPHER | April 4, 2016 Individually, each of the three topics of this paper – water security, economic growth and ...
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