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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… effects during the application for water abstraction and effluent discharge permits. The Act also empowers the … medicines, recreational amenities, shoreline protection, waste processing, and carbon sequestration, among others. … with human and industrial waste as a result of untreated effluent and unregulated discharges into those water bodies. …
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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… increasing access to safe drinking water, the provision of waste water treatment and sanitation, and the prevention of … involved and the distance from discharge to withdrawal, effluent from industry or untreated sewage could adversely … or indirect discharge of untreated sewage or industrial effluent into water sources give rise to similar conflicts. …
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Protection, restoration and sustainable use of urban water bodies in India

… facing multi- level pressures – such as eutrophication, waste dumping, unloading of sewage water, siltation, …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… carries chemical pollutants – usually from agriculture, waste disposal or industry. Groundwater man- agement requires … of contaminants released Photo 3.1 Urban and industrial effluent, a source of groundwater contamination 58 and the … industries is less effective and a large number of common effluent treatment plants are not functioning properly. …
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Sources of international water law

… through the application of, inter alia, low- and non-waste technology; (b) transboundary waters are protected … from point sources through the prior licensing of waste-water discharges by the competent national authorities, … conditions required to be met; (c) results of water and effluent sampling carried out for the purposes of monitoring …
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The Joensuu negotiation: A mulitlateral simulation exercise: The UN Framework Convention on Transboundary Aquifers

… Sound Management of Hazardous Chemicals and Waste: A Practitioner’s Perspective’, Review 2004, 89–101; … fuels, hazardous substances, toxins, waste and sewage, effluent, ozone-depleting substances, noise, greenhouse … of freshwater resources by industrial chemicals and effluent have affected drinking water. Soils have been …
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Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… and regional perspectives for sustainabil ity vii 5.4.2. Waste management for inland navigation … Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste, Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention on … or basin in which they operate, e.g. through their water effluent or air emissions. Beyond the physical impact on the …
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Water Management and Stewardship

… Wetland Reserve in South Africa in 2006. Waste water from the mine contained a high concentration of … improved seed varieties, and reductions in food waste - while leakage reduction will be key to municipal … of another multinational brewer noted a case where effluent from a brewery process was within the compliant …
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GEO yearbook 2003

… of goals for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on waste and pollution, sustainable tourism, and energy supply … met in October, took key decisions to increase focus on waste minimization and to apply the terms of the Convention … Conference on Chemicals Management in 2006. Chemical waste storage of a soap and vegetable-oil factory in Lusaka, …
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Global Land Outlook

… and consumption, and ensuing levels of food loss/waste, further accelerate the rate of land use change, land … to half the country’s population.238 Grey water and sewage effluent use Wastewater separated from industrial effluent can be used for irrigation; waste water from 100,000 …
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