Water management: Current and future challenges and research directions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4823-4839

  Cosgrove, William J ^a   Loucks, Daniel P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; decision making; sustainable development; system management; system operation; water management

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; POTABLE WATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM OPERATION;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; DRINKING WATER; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBALIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; SANITATION; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84937415012     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016869     Document Type: Review

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