Water For People: Climate Change And Water Availability

Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 86-127

  Watts, Glenn ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clean, reliable water supplies human health and hygiene, supporting farming, manufacturing and commerce; Climate change, opportunity to rethink water supply and demand relationship; Climate change, significant shift in approach to water supply planning; Flow naturalization and denaturalization; Hydrological analysis for water supply planning; Questions of affordability and acceptable environmental damage and societal values; Transient modelling of climate change impact on water availability, becoming attractive; Water demand scenarios and microcomponents, approach in considering climate change impact; Water for people climate change and water availability; Water management practices and systems climatic variability, and water supplies more reliable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858866329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324921.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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