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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044909)
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“Water security” has come to infiltrate prominent discourse in the international water and development community, and achieving it is often viewed as a new water sector target. Despite the levated status that the concept has increasingly acquired, understandings of the term are murky and quantification is rare. To promote a more tangible understanding of the concept, this paper develops an index for evaluating water security at a country level. The index is comprised of indicators in five components considered to be critical to the concept: (i) basic needs; (ii) agricultural production; (iii) the environment; (iv) risk management; and (v) independence. Achieving water security in these components can be considered necessary but insufficient criteria to measure the achievement of security in related areas such as health, livelihoods, and industry. After populating indicators with data from Asia-Pacific countries, results are interpreted and the viability of methods is discussed. This effort comprises an important first step for quantifying and assessing water security across countries, which should spur more concrete understanding of the term and discussion of its added value.
2 Wetzelhuetter, C. 2013. Groundwater in the coastal zones of the Asia–Pacific region: a threatened resource needing integrated management. In Wetzelhuetter, C. (Ed.). Groundwater in the coastal zones of Asia-Pacific. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp3-9. (Coastal Research Library Volume 7)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 551.457 G570 WET Record No: H046325)
Groundwater management and conservation are becoming an increasingly important issue in the heavily urbanized coastal zones of the Asia–Pacific region. This volume of papers is intended to support groundwater managers in their planning, and offer potential solutions for decision makers. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the general concept of this volume. It describes the composition, content and objectives of the different chapter contributions. Furthermore, it also, outlines how the status of coastal groundwater research is presented and illustrates how this volume offers an integrated view of groundwater processes in coastal aquifers in the Asia–Pacific region. It includes a discussion of the methodologies and technologies used to assess processes associated with coastal groundwater development. A summary of the case studies and local examples aims to provide the reader with a broader understanding of the diversity of costal aquifers and their groundwater resources.
3 Lautze, Jonathan; Manthrithilake, Herath. 2014. Water security: converging toward common understanding through quantification. In Grafton, R. Q.; Wyrwoll, P.; White, C.; Allendes, D. (Eds.). Global water: issues and insights. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University (ANU Press). pp.167-174.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046534)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.34 G000 ISM Record No: H046897)
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