Global urban growth and the geography of water availability, quality, and delivery

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 437-446

  McDonald, Robert I ^a   Douglas, Ian ^b   Revenga, Carmen ^a   Hale, Rebecca ^c   Grimm, Nancy ^d   Grönwall, Jenny ^e   Fekete, Balazs ^f  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e City College of New York ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aridity index; Global Rural Urban Mapping Project; Gross domestic product; Hydrosheds

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FINANCIAL PROVISION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; RESOURCE USE; URBAN GROWTH; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; URBANIZATION; WATER SUPPLY;

GEOGRAPHY; URBANIZATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79959810778     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0152-6     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Anonymous. 2008. Now, DJB nod must for drilling borewells in city. The Times of India, December 3.
2. Bartlett, S. 2003. Water, sanitation and urban children: The need to go beyond "improved" provision. Environment and Urbanization 15(2): 57-70. (Pubitemid 37375316)
3. Bhatia, R., and M. Falkenmark. 1993. Water resource policies and the urban poor: Innovative approaches and policy imperatives. In Water and sanitation currents. Washington, DC: World Bank.
4. Carrera-Hernandez, J.J., and S.J. Gaskin. 2007. The Basin of Mexico aquifer system: Regional groundwater level dynamics and database development. Hydrogeology Journal 15(8): 1577-1590. (Pubitemid 350182526)
5. Chau, K. 1993. Management of limited water resources in Hong Kong. Water Resources Development 9(1): 65-73. (Pubitemid 23371202)
6. City of Bangalore. 2009. The Bangalore waster supply and sewerage (amendment) Act, Karnataka.
7. City of Tucson. 2008. Ordinance No. 10597, Tucson, AZ.
8. Emerton, L., L. Iyango, P. Luwum, and A. Malinga. 1998. The present economic value of Nakivubo urban wetland IUCN-The World Conservation Union. Uganda: Eastern Africa Regional Office.
9. Fernandes, T., C. Schout, A. De Roda Husman, A. Eilander, H. Vennema, and Y. van Duynhoven. 2006. Gastroenteritis associated with accidental contamination of drinking water with partially treated water. Epidemiology and Infection 135(5): 818-826. (Pubitemid 47161666)
10. Foster, S., A. Lawrence, and B. Morris. 1998. Groundwater in urban development: Assessing management needs and formulating policy strategies. Washington: World Bank.
11. Gandy, M. 2006. Planning, anti-planning and the infrastructure crisis facing Metropolitan Lagos. Urban Studies 43: 371-396. (Pubitemid 43203418)
12. GEMS, and UNEP. 2007. Global drinking water quality index development and sensitivity analysis report. Ontario, Canada: United Nations Environment Programme Global Environmental Monitoring System, Water Programme Office.
13. UNEP, GEMS, UNESCO, ERCE, GEMS, and IAP. 2008. Water quality for ecosystem and human health, 2nd ed. Ontario: United Nations Environment Programme Global Environmental Monitoring System, Water Programme Office.
14. Ghassemi, F., and I. White. 2007. Inter-basin water transfer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
15. Global Water Intelligence. 2010. Lagos water supply. Global Water Intelligence 11(6).
16. GRUMP. 2010. Global rural-urban mapping project. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); The World Bank; and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/ gpw/.
17. Hammad, Z.H., A.O. Ali, and H.H. Ahmed. 2008. The quality of drinking water in storage in Khartoum State. Khartoum Medical Journal 1(2): 78-80.
18. Henderson, M., E.T. Yeh, P. Gong, C. Elvidge, and K. Baugh. 2003. Validation of urban boundaries derived from global night-time satellite imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24(3): 595-609.
19. Hutin, Y., S. Luby, and C. Paquet. 2003. A large cholera outbreak in Kano City, Nigeria: the importance of hand washing with soap and the danger of street-vended water. Journal of Water and Health 1(1): 45-52.
20. IDA. 2010. Sanitation and water supply: Improving services for the poor. Washington, DC: International Development Association, World Bank.
21. Jain, S.K., P.K. Agarwal, and V.P. Singh. 2007. Hydrology and water resources of India. Dordrecht: Springer.
22. Kelly, T. 2006. Using sustainability in urban water planning. Paper read at SWITCH Workshop on Learning Alliance, Tel Aviv, Israel.
23. Kimball, A. 2005. Selling water instead of watermelons: Colorado's changing rural economy. Next American City, April.
24. Kingdom, B., R. Liemberger, and P. Marin. 2006. The challenge of reducing non-revenue water (NRW) in developing countries. Washington, DC: World Bank, Energy and Water Department.
25. Kuwairi, A. 2006. Water mining: the Great-man-made river, Libya. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 159(1): 39-43. (Pubitemid 43892942)
26. Lallana, C. 2003. Water use efficiency (in cities): Leakage. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.
27. Lehner, B., K. Verdin, and A. Jarvis. 2008. New global hydrography derived from spaceborne elevation data. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 89(10): 93-94.
28. Liu, C. 1998. Environmental issues and the South-North water transfer scheme. The China Quarterly 156: 899-910. (Pubitemid 29148031)
29. McDonald, R. I., P. Green, D. Balk, B. Fekete, C. Revenga, M. Todd, and M. Montgomery. 2011. Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(15): 6312-6317.
30. MEA. 2005. Ecosystems and human well-being: Desertification synthesis. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
31. Oesterholt, F., G. Martijnse, G. Medema, and D. Van Der Kooij. 2007. Health risk assessment of non-potable domestic water supplies in the Netherlands. Journal of water supply: research and technology, AQUA 56: 171-179. (Pubitemid 46733283)
32. Peierls, B.L., N.F. Caraco, M.L. Pace, and J.J. Cole. 1991. Human influence on river nitrogen. Nature 350(6317): 386-387.
33. Phienwej, N., and P. Nutalaya. 2005. Subsidence and flooding in Bangkok. In The physical geography of Southeast Asia, ed. A. Gupta, 358-378. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
34. Rockström, J., and L. Karlberg. 2010. The quadruple squeeze: Defining the safe operating space for freshwater use to achieve a truply gren revolution in the Anthropocene. AMBIO 39: 257-265.
35. Shahin, M. 1990. Annual flow variations in the Nile River system. In Hydraulics/Hydrology of Arid Lands, ed. R. H. French. Washington, DC: American Society of Civil Engineers.
36. Small, C., F. Pozzi, and C.D. Elvidge. 2005. Spatial analysis of global urban extent from DMSP-OLS night lights. Remote Sensing of Environment 96(3-4): 277-291. (Pubitemid 40912430)
37. Sutton, P., D. Roberts, C. Elvidge, and K. Baugh. 2001. Census from heaven: An estimate of the global human population using nighttime satellite imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22(16): 3061-3076. (Pubitemid 32956695)
38. Syagga, P., and W. Olima. 1996. The impact of compulsory land acquisition on displaced households: The case of the Third Nairobi Water Supply Project, Kenya. Habitat International 20: 61-75.
39. UNEP. 1997a. Source book of alternative techologies for freshwater augmentation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nairobi: United Nations Environmental Program, International Environmental Technology Center.
40. UNEP. 1997. World atlas of desertification. Nairobi: United Nations Environmental Programme.
41. UNEP, UN Water, and UN Habitat. 2010. World water day 2010: Water quality facts and statistics. Nairobi: United Nations Environmental Programme.
42. UNPD. 2007. World urbanization prospects: The 2007 revision. New York: United Nations Population Division.
43. Vörösmarty, C.J., P. McIntyre, M.O. Gessner, D. Dudgeon, A. Prusevich, P. Green, S. Glidden, S.E. Bunn, C.A. Sullivan, C.R. Liermann, and P.M. Davies. 2010. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature 467: 555-561.
44. Watts, J. 2009. China plans 59 reservoirs to collect meltwater from its shrinking glaciers. The Guardian, 2 March.
45. WHO. 2008. Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva: World Health Organization.
46. World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure. 2003. Financing water for all. Marseilles: World Water Council.
47. Zhang, L., and C. Kennedy. 2006. Determination of sustainable yield in urban groundwater systems: Beijing, China. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 11(1): 21-28. (Pubitemid 43149468)
48. Zhang, Q., Z. Xu, Z. Shen, S. Li, and S. Wang. 2009. The Han River watershed management initiative for the South-to-North water transfer project (Middle Route) of China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 148: 369-377.