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Integrated water management

Pipedreams? Inter-basin transfers & water shortages (1.38mb)

The world is increasingly forced to face the challenge of how to ensure access to adequate water resources for expanding populations whilst maintaining healthy freshwater ecosystems and the vital services they provide.

This WWF paper looks at the risks of the increasingly popular schemes to pour water from one river into another less endowed.

The issues examined include:
- Interbasin water transfers - the context
- Lessons learnt from existing interbasin water transfer schemes
- Interbasin water transfers in the future
- Alternatives to interbasin water transfers

 

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