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-- a _kt75 | note Download: Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - Q02/2014 . The most recent issue of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management (Q02/2014) is freely available. In continuation of the successful publication of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management the current issue concentrates on a broad range of topics including land subsidence, implications of climate change on ground water regimes, technical developments in the small hydro power sector, etc. Geographically, the Notes once more focus on regions exposed to complicated water supply conditions: Middle-East and Asia. A number of publications tackle the named issues in detail and provide cutting-edge insights on present developments. An important, because seldom considered, region represents the Horn of Africa and the water supply issues encountered there. A comprehensive overview is provided by a dedicated report. As always all reprints are completely referenced and can be accesse...

-- a _kt75 | note Download: Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - Q01/2014 . The most recent issue of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management (Q01/2014) is freely available. This release of the Notes comes along with a substantial diversification in terms of content. As with this issue the section 'Energy' is inserted immediately after the section 'Technology'. By this, it is intended to emphasise and consider the importance of water as an important energy carrier. Thematically, this issue concentrates on two highly sensitive issues affecting sustainable water management: the extraction of natural gas and crude oil by measn of hydraulic fracking on the one hand and the accounting of virtual water (especially with regarding to trading and agriculture) on the other hand. Both topics pose severe challenges. Whereas the former is often criticised to affect the natural water balance, in particular the mechanisms of the ground water regime , the latt...

-- a _kt75 | note Download the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - Q04/2013 Submit your Abstract for the next issue of the Quarterly Notes NEW : Preview the Notes The next issue of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management will be released early April 2014. The original content structure of the notes  Technology,  Research,  Politics&Society will be completed by the new section Energy As previously, abstracts of newly published - but also not yet published - articles addressing the above sections and concentrating on water management and related topics are welcomed. The contributions should range in the order of 200-400 words (in exceptions and if acceptable larger contributions are accepted as well), they must be written in English (well formulated) and they must be provided along with the complete references. Submit your contribution until 29th February 2014 , either as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt-document to notes.kt75@gmx.ch . 7TYV87EJ6...

-- a _kt75 | note  _d ownload notes : server 1 | server 2  download troubles? get your free copy   Tweet Ground water is, aside surface water one of the most important but also most sensitive drinking water resources. Its plenty and safe availability depends upon natural conditions, such as geology, precipitation, vegetation, etc., but also upon volume withdrawn for artificial purposes as well as on the characteristics used water (typically called ‘waste water’) is fed back to the hydrological cycle.  Most recent investigations and analyses reveal once more that the availability of ground water is critical in regions characterised by unstable social and economic conditions (Middle-East, Africa, etc.). Tensions among countries situated in such regions can substantially inhibit the sustainable supply with drinking water from ground water resources. From a technological point of view GIS-applications for the management of ground water resources become increasingly impor...

-- a _kt75 | note   Tweet  _download: server 1 Big is beautiful? [1] – The solutions for sustainable water management/alternative energy generation by means of water dams are multifarious and range from very small hydro power projects to largest scale dam solutions. Currently, there seems to be a certain tendency towards the latter option in particular in developing and emerging countries. In this context, the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance dam and the Congolese Grand Inga Dam represent the most known examples of large scale water dams. A widely discussed key question however is: comply such gigantic structures with the idea of sustainable development? What are the implications associated with the construction of such facilities and how efficient (from an economic point of view) are they? Are there any geo-political consequences and in case of what type of are they? In order to address some of the above questions and to provide for a better understanding of the issue of s...

-- a _kt75 | note 💾 _d ownload Paper : server 1 | server 2 😐 download troubles? get your free copy Along with the first issue of the Notes in 2013 a number of major development steps have been finalised. First of all and as a consequential step to consistently and consequentially integrate the individual project elements into the _kt75 | project, the Notes – originally the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - have been renamed to _kt75 | notes (on genuine sustainable development). Despite a different name, the key intention to provide recent and comprehensive sustainability information in a compact way remains the same. Accordingly, the present issue addresses topics like: Water and Power Supply Networks Oil Pipeline Projects (Keystone XL) Nuclear Power (Decommissioning in context of the ‘energy turnaround’) etc. More details about the _kt75 | notes are provided in the News section of this issue. Secondly, the technical update of the web-sit...