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Title
Water: a looming crisis? Summary and Recommendations of the International Conference on World Water Resources at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Series
IHP Non Serial Publications in Hydrology
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Publication Date
1998
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Abstract
The International Conference on World Water Resources at the Beginning of the 21st Century was held at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, from 3-6 June 1998. The Conference was convened by UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (IHP), the World Water Council and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), with 12 co-sponsors.  
The Conference’s starting point was a monograph on the World’s Water Resources at the Beginning of the 21st Century, to be published in UNESCO-IHP’s International Hydrology Series.  
 
This monograph is the result of important collaborative research on the water resources of the world, their distribution by continent and their future development in connection with demographic growth, increasing water needs and climate change.  
 
This document presents the major outcome of the Conference. First, there is the overall conclusion or summary of the Conference which embraces the recommendations of the five working groups within the Conference. This overview is then followed by the reports of the individual working groups, each tackling a specific topic concerned with the central issue of water resources.  
 
The recommendations in this document provide guidelines for both the international scientific community and the world’s water resources managers and policy makers on how to achieve the goal of sustainable development and how to counter the perceived looming water crisis.  
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Available
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English
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Price
Free of charge
Keywords
global water resources, water resources assessment, water availability, water use, water quality, data collection, groundwater monitoring, groundwater contamination, groundwater overexploitation, water management, water demand, drought, floods, water scarcity, water policy, economic value of water, urban water resources, rural water resources
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