| 书目名称 | Water Challenges in Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa and their Management |
| 编辑 | Joan Nyika,Megersa Olumana Dinka |
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| 概述 | A distinctive study focusing on water issues of Sub-Saharan Africa.Offers practical solutions to improve water resources management with worldwide applications based empirical studies.Provides numerou |
| 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology |
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| 描述 | Sub-Saharan Africa grapples with many public health issues such as food insecurity, increased prevalence of infectious diseases, limited access to clean water supply, poor nutrition and lack of improved health services for its populace (IMF, 2021). Of all these challenges, the inaccessibility of clean water supply for both the rural and urban populace is the most pressing challenge, which has been exacerbated by extensive pollution and climate change crises. The issue of water access and supply affects both rural and urban populations. At rural areas water is accessed in yard taps and in arid regions through water kiosks managed by private owners. Among the urban poor, water access is compromised by poor supply infrastructure especially among informal settlers and risks such as contamination during the supply chain are imminent This book therefore seeks to close this knowledge gap by 1) generating a water resources inventory for Sub-Saharan Africaregion, 2) exploring the water crises in both its urban and rural settings, 3) understanding the causatives of the crises and 4) suggesting viable solutions to manage the water challenges using named case studies. The aim is to improve |
| 出版日期 | Book 2023 |
| 关键词 | Groundwater; Surface Water; Water Conflicts; Water Pollution; Climate-Change Impacts; Water Scarcity; Publ |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26271-5 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-26270-8 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-26271-5Series ISSN 2194-7244 Series E-ISSN 2194-7252 |
| issn_series | 2194-7244 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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