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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter 3. Modifying Water Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.1 Infrastructure impacts and options . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . 31 3.2 Enhancing environmental flows with new water infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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Global Land Outlook

… alternative livelihoods and are often excluded from wider infrastructure and economic development. The scale of rural … land, usually with water rights and access to transport infrastructure, as a hedge against future price volatility … to climate stress, and therefore excluded from wider infrastructure and economic development. Land degradation …
17 Jun 2026 Literature

Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management

… . . . . . . . . . .25 Case Study 6: Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities in Burkina Faso . . . . . . . … to provide water-related ecosystem services? tools and infrastructure • What infractructure and tools are best … in unnecessary expenditure. They should also address large infrastructure failing to provide expected results but which …
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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… ecosystems-based approaches can play in enhancing natural infrastructure to strengthen resilience to climate change. … impacts on the function and operation of existing water infrastructure; and • Significant impacts on water quality, … capacity to mitigate climate change impacts.10 Natural infrastructure has been fundamental to water management, and …
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Water Management and Stewardship

… they manage water, but they are mostly investing in water infrastructure within their own plants/premises. Recycling, … group, especially of multi-nationals. As for major water infrastructure projects beyond the factory fence, companies … private finance does go towards funding such major infrastructure, it is usually (typically) under the …
17 Jun 2026 Literature

Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… the impacts of water management measures –such as water infrastructure- on the environment are important … and an Institute on the Development of the Legal Infrastructure of the Global Economy. Acknowledgement The … to rise. This imposes growing burdens on urban water infrastructure and managers, because of the difficulty of …
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The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration

… distributed unevenly on this territory, urbanization and infrastructure development used to suffer from poor planning. … four components of resilience, i.e. diversity, sustainable infrastructure and technology, self-organisation, and … system improving access to food and employment Sustainable infrastructure & technology • Intensive animal farming, dense …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… and irrigation are top of the priority lists for water infrastructure development. Rivers, wetlands and lakes … urban or coastal areas, can have severe impacts on infrastructure. 35 2.2.3 Susceptibility to side-effects of … causing land subsidence with corre- sponding damage to infrastructure • Aquifer compressibility • Compressibility of …
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GEO yearbook 2003

… given declining investment in agricultural research and infrastructure, increasing water scarcity, and the challenges … polluted local water supplies and damaged underwater infrastructure. Cleanup costs totalled almost US$1 billion … homes were destroyed, and there was extensive damage to infrastructure and agriculture (UNICEF 2004). Officials …
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Pangani River Basin, Tanzania - Building consensus on water allocation and climate change adaptation

… spaces for stakeholder dialogue through small-scale infrastructure development As a result of the early dialogues … phase, the larger initiative included some small-scale infrastructure developments to address the water conflicts. …
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