Water Management In The Era Of Climatic Change Volume Ii 2nd Edition Alban Kuriqi by Alban Kuriqi, Luis Garrote 9783036593470, 3036593470 instant download after payment.

Water is a crucial element on Earth for all living and non-living components. Climate change is an alarming issue for managing and sustaining life on Earth. Given climate change, water resources worldwide have been under drastically stressed conditions, as is evident from the uneven weather patterns, droughts, floods, and cloud bursts. Only three percent of the water resources on Earth are fresh, and two-thirds of the freshwater is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. Of the remaining one percent, a fifth is in remote, inaccessible areas. Much of the seasonal rainfall in monsoonal deluges and floods cannot be easily used. Only about 0.08 percent of all the world’s freshwater is exploited by humankind, with an ever-increasing demand for sanitation, drinking, manufacturing, leisure, and agriculture. The ever-increasing water exploitation has intensively degraded freshwater ecosystems, notably rivers.