Essays on Water Resource Management

Background and rationale

Background Water is an essential substance for the life of human beings on earth; however lack of clean and fresh water for use because of poor sanitation and lack of water purification systems causes the significant number of deaths. More than 800 million people do not have access to fresh drinking water as per the report by the Millennium Development Goals in 2012. The world’s population is growing at a faster rate. Statistics shows that by mid-century, nearly 2 billion people will not have access to safe drinking water (Schilling 2013). The growing population, changing industrial and agricultural ...

Abstract

The Crown and Waikato Tainui has been having conflicting standards in the management of the Waikato River. The report is basically giving details on the background of the different stands that each team has pertaining the river and how the conflict resolution was approached. Tainui believes that the river lies in their ancestral land and that the Crown has not right interfering with the management of the river and its resources. This initiated the need for a deed settlement between the two parties. The deed settlement was signed in august 2008 and this brought the genesis of shared management ...

Introduction

Water is a naturally occurring resource. Its importance cannot be emphasized any more than it already has over the past few years of the new millennia. This coupled with the changing climatic trends that result in the short-circuiting of the hydrological cycle, has brought water policies to the forefront of consideration of governments and international organizations. Like every other demographically limited resource, the availability of water is scarce and growing scarcer by the day. However, different regions have different priorities when regarding water resource management. This is brought about by the disparity in economic capacity that brings about the wide ...