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1 Stockholm Water Company. 1999. Urban stability through integrated water-related management: Abstracts, The 9th Stockholm Water Symposium, 9-12 August 1999. Abstracts of proceedings of the 9th Stockholm Water Symposium. 417p.
Water resource management ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Flood control ; Groundwater ; Urbanization ; Water rights ; Developing countries ; Water reuse ; Wastewater ; Recycling ; Afforestation ; Effluents ; Recharge ; Aquifers ; Irrigation water ; Drainage ; Runoff ; Catchment areas ; Pollution control ; Flood plains ; GIS ; Public health ; Water transfer ; Water harvesting ; Water scarcity ; Water demand ; Canals ; Models ; Rivers ; Dams ; Watersheds ; Ecology ; Ecosystems ; Water quality ; Case studies / Brazil / Namibia / Saudi Arabia / Russian Federation / USA / Bangladesh / India / Kuwait / Japan / Morocco / Nepal / Yemen / Australia / Iran / South Africa / Hong Kong / Congo / Afghanistan / Iraq / West Africa / Africa South of Sahara / Mexico / Chile / Pakistan / Tanzania / Sri Lanka / Uganda / China / Botswana / Zimbabwe / Turkey / Latvia / Vietnam / Nigeria / Sao Paulo / Windhoek / Moscow / California / Silicon Valley / Dhaka / Chennai / Al-Jahra / Tokyo / Marrakech / Kathmandu / Larastan / Namakkal District / Lubumbashi / Kabul / West Bank / Gaza Strip / Benin / Niger River Basin / Calcutta / Altamira / Yangtze River / Bangalore / Maun / Okavango River / St. Petersburg / Amman-Zarqa Basin / Cochin Region / Karachi / Bombay / Istanbul / Kerala / Dar es salaam / Tianyang County / Dalu Village
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 628.1 G000 STO Record No: H024785)
2 UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme. 2014. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2014. Vol. 1. Water and energy. Paris, France: UNESCO. 133p.
Water management ; Water demand ; Electricity generation ; Thermal energy ; Water power ; Energy consumption ; Energy demand ; Infrastructure ; Economic aspects ; Climate change ; Population ; Biofuels ; Surface water ; Water use ; Wastewater management ; Agriculture ; Food security ; Ecosystems / Africa / Asia-Pacific / Europe / Oceania / North America / South America / Latin America / Africa South of Sahara / Australia / Austria / Caribbean / Chile / China / India / Iraq / Lebanon / Mexico / Rwanda / Mekong River Basin / Chennai / Windhoek / Sydney
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046371)
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3 van Rensburg, P. 2016. Overcoming global water reuse barriers: the Windhoek experience. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 32(4):622-636. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2015.1129319]
Water reuse ; Drinking water ; Water supply ; Water scarcity ; Waste water treatment plants ; Water quality ; Water policy ; Domestic water ; Health hazards ; Regulations ; Technological changes ; Public opinion ; Economic aspects / Namibia / Windhoek / Goreangab Water Reclamation Plant
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047742)
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Water scarcity is a reality, with a recent UN report estimating that about half of the global population could be facing water shortages by 2030. This has focused attention on existing sources and what could be done to maximize potential. Water reuse, in particular direct potable reuse (DPR), has enjoyed a somewhat turbulent history globally. Despite this, the City of Windhoek has been practising DPR for more than 45 years, and this commentary presents globally accepted barriers standing in the way of DPR and attempts to explore ways to overcome these given the experience in Windhoek.
4 World Bank. 2018. Water scarce cities: thriving in a finite world. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 54p.
Water scarcity ; Urban areas ; Towns ; Water resources ; Water security ; Water demand ; Surface water ; Groundwater management ; Climate change ; Resilience ; Rainwater harvesting ; Wastewater ; Water reuse ; Water quality ; Sea water ; Desalination ; Water users ; Water market ; Financing ; Strategies ; Institutions ; Technology ; Infrastructure ; Cooperation / Australia / USA / Morocco / Jordan / Namibia / Malta / Singapore / Spain / Marrakech / Amman / Windhoek / Perth / Orange County / Murcia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048820)
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/29623/W17100.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048820.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048820.pdf
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The report is an advocacy piece to raise awareness around the need to shift the typical way urban water has been managed and to share emerging principles and solutions that may improve urban water supply security in water scarce cities. It aims to promote successes, outline challenges and principles, and extract key lessons learned for future efforts. It builds on the experiences of over 20 water scarce cities and territories from five continents, which represent a diversity of situations and development levels. This report argues that WSS service providers, policy makers, and practitioners should look at their mandate and responsibilities in a new light, and seek to embrace integrated water resources management considerations. Drawing from successful experiences from around the world, it extracts several underlying management principles applied by effective utilities. The report then aims to demystify solutions to address urban water scarcity, comparing and contrasting related institutional, technological, economic and social aspects. It then concludes with cross-cutting considerations relevant to planners, water operators and policy makers of water scarce cities.
5 Thorn, J. P. R.; Aleu, R. B.; Wijesinghe, A.; Mdongwe, M.; Marchant, R. A.; Shackleton, S. 2021. Mainstreaming nature-based solutions for climate resilient infrastructure in peri-urban Sub-Saharan Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning, 216:104235. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104235]
Climate change ; Resilience ; Periurban areas ; Infrastructure ; Mainstreaming ; Barriers ; Legal aspects ; Land use change ; Financing ; Sociocultural environment ; Ecosystem services ; Risk reduction ; Households ; Settlement / Africa South of Sahara / Namibia / United Republic of Tanzania / Windhoek / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050637)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204621001985/pdfft?md5=3cae6cb42cf68d24299e83f7efa75088&pid=1-s2.0-S0169204621001985-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050637.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050637.pdf
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Despite a growing recognition of the importance of designing, rehabilitating, and maintaining green infrastructure to provide essential ecosystem services and adapt to climate change, many decision makers in sub-Saharan Africa continue to favour engineered solutions and short term economic growth at the expense of natural landscapes and longer term sustainability agendas. Existing green infrastructure is typically maintained in more affluent suburbs, inadvertently perpetuating historic inequalities. This is in part because there remains a lack of fine-grained, comparative evidence on the barriers and enablers to mainstreaming green infrastructure in peri-urban areas. Here, we developed an analytical framework based on a review of 155 studies, screened to include 29 studies in 24 countries. Results suggest eight overarching categories of interconnected barriers to green infrastructure in peri-urban areas. Using a combinatorial mixed method approach, we then surveyed households in nine settlements in drought-prone Windhoek (n=330) and seven settlements in flood-prone Dar es Salaam (n=502) and conducted key informant interviews (n=118). Peri-urban residents in Windhoek and Dar es Salaam indicated 18 forms of green infrastructure and 47 derived ecosystem services. The most frequently reported barriers were financial (40.8%), legal and institutional barriers (35.8%) followed by land use change and spatial trade-offs (33%) and finally ecosystem disservices (30.6%). The most significant barriers in Dar es Salaam were legal and institutional (22.7%) and in Windhoek were land use change and spatial trade-offs (24.4%). At the household level, the principal barrier was financial; at community and municipal levels the main barriers were related to design, performance, and maintenance; while at the national level, the main barriers were legal and institutional. Embracing institutional cultures of adaptive policymaking, equitable partnerships, co-designing futures, integrated landscape management and experimental innovation have potential to scale long term maintenance for urban green infrastructure and foster agency, creativity and more transformative relationships and outcomes.
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