Water and national security are intrinsically linked. Here are three reasons why we must accept this and how we can take action to empower communities - not destroy them: 1. Food shortages A consequence of the water crisis is food shortages – and the challenges in South Sudan is a clea...
State Department in May 2012 that examined how global water issues could affect U.S. national security interests. It presents findings that could have concomitant impacts on nuclear energy such as the likelihood that water in shared basins will be used as leverage, as a weapon or to further ...
Clearly, water resources and water systems are considered instruments of war by nation-states and their armies. The security of water resources and water systems is vital to any nation's interests. This national security perspective is magnified when non-state actors carry out terrorist actions. Te...
It is ironic that only after more than a hundred years of "institutionalised" public development does the country finally has a specifically written National Water Resources Policy (NWRP). "The NWRP which was officially launched on 24th March 2012 asserts that "the security and sustainability of...
security.A rule-based mode and a metasynthesis method were put forward for the study of water resources security,which provide a basis for further study of an integrated model of water resources management and an evaluation index system and a safeguard system of water resources security. ...
The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), and State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Jun Xia HE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands Damir Brdjanovic ...
In addition to section 27(1)(b) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996), which guarantees everyone the right to have access to sufficient water, legislation put in place by the government to ensure its realization include Water Services Act (1997) and the National Water ...
Water and Food Security in the Arab Countries: National and Regional Implications Water and food security issues appear to be of particular concern for Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries where natural resources are under climat... E Ferragina,G Canitano - 《Global Environment》 被引量: 4...
Chinese authorities have issued a guideline for shoring up the construction of a national water network amid the country's efforts to enhance the capability to safeguard water security. The overarching document, jointly released by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council,...
Protecting the world’s freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, from global to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly consider human and biodiversity perspectives on water security using a s