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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches
… the surface of the earth. baseflow: the sustained or dry weather flow of a stream resulting from the outflow of … organizations, to be achieved by 2015: eradicate extreme Glossary xiii poverty and hunger; achieve universal … resources. Climate change may increase the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, fires, drought, …
The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment
… detoxifying wastes, sequestering carbon, buffering against weather events and climatic changes, and producing fish, wild … of the changes in precipitation levels will become more extreme; in other words, floods will become more frequent and … developing world. Among others, these include: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by halving, between 1990 and • …