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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… Changes to the hydrograph and related physical, chemical and biological processes have substantially degraded … storage. Short-term interruptions may be caused by restricted pumping regimes, power restrictions or outages, … Most of the water resources in the state are closed or restricted to new appropriations, with only 26 percent of the …
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GEO yearbook 2003

… International Conference on Chemicals Management in 2006. Chemical waste storage of a soap and vegetable-oil factory in … crisis (World Bank 2004b) and affecting the environment. Restricted access to agricultural land has reduced land … gender as a mainstream issue is still patchy, and is restricted primarily to the obvious sectors of women’s …
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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… include untreated sewage, agricultural run-off and chemical substances. These affect all forms of freshwater as … accumulated during the economic operation process) may be restricted or prohibited in ground water protection zones; … this Article, the operation of the water object shall be restricted, suspended or prohibited in procedures set forth …
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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa

… 6.3.3 Restricted range species … 8.1.3 Distribution of restricted range species … (FAO 1991). Aquatic pollution is both physical and chemical. Physically, sedimentation in freshwater bodies … discomfort and reducing the productivity of the system. Chemical pollution creates a situation where fishes are more …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… can be contaminated where recharge water carries chemical pollutants – usually from agriculture, waste … the scope for application of this approach may be more restricted than it first may seem.87 82 Figure 4.2 Historical … is seemingly self-evi- dent, yet too often overlooked or restricted to superficial engagement. Simply put, if …
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Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual

… quality by degradation and sorption of biological and some chemical contaminants. Figure 2.4 Aquifer productivity map of … Small to moderate Resource Areas Relativity unrestricted Restricted to water bodies Recharge Restricted to unconfined aquifers Takes place everywhere with …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… and groundwater.5 Good Status is a combination of Good Chemical Status and Good Ecological Status (GES). GES is … Watercourses Systems in the Southern sumptive use being restricted to the amount of water exceeding this requirement. … works- hop (Step 2), using one or more chosen methods. A restricted number of people (perhaps 20), including key …
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Rule: Reforming water governance

… pollutants. Along the basin there are more than 3,000 chemical, oil, food, paper, textile and metal industries and …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… the contamination of watercourses with ‘heavy’ metals, chemical waste or pesticides and fertilizers. It is also … solid (ice) and gaseous (clouds, fog or mist). From the chemical point of view, water is, in its purest form, a … this principle, the territorial sovereignty of a State is restricted, in the sense that no activities may occur that …
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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… oceans, thereby threatening other important ecosystems.33 Chemical pollution, which refers primarily to persistent … generally reduces the availability of water for human use. Chemical pollutants, microbial contamination, increased … provide even stronger protections for waters reserved for restricted purposes, defines “National Reserve” as “[t]he …
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