International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society
Name : International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society.
Category : Energy & Environment
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File Added : August 3, 2010
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This online pdf files about background of international conference on water, environment, energy and society. It also about invitation, dates and venue, format for extended abstracts, registration, tentative programme, exhibition, and other.
Content summary :
“Leonardo da Vinci termed water as the driver of nature. Water is vital to all forms of life and fundamental for environmental health and management. The importance of water varies with space and time. The role of water in the environment also depends on other conditions. Forests, pastures, agriculture, and urban areas each create different types of environment.
The approach for water resources development varies considerably from one type of environment to another. Many ills of water development programmes have their roots in inadequate appreciation of these differences and the employment of similar solutions for dissimilar environmental conditions. Water management in arid regions is different from the water management in humid areas.
Water is also an important source of energy. Living beings are energized when they consume water. Water falling under gravity turns the blades of turbine, which generate electrical energy. A main attraction of hydropower is based on the use of a renewable resource. Every source of energy generation has an associated environmental cost and a comparative evaluation of various sources is necessary to evolve the strategy to meet energy requirements while causing the minimum damage to the environment and society.
Although water is a renewable resource, availability of water for the society is limited. Consequently, there is a tremendous pressure on the available water resources due to increasing population and growing water consumption. In many mega-cities, people do not get an adequate amount of water to meet their daily needs and supplies are uncertain. Quality of drinking water is often poor, particularly during rainy season, leading to high incidence of water borne diseases. Also, the metropolitan cities have inadequate drainage networks which get choked frequently, resulting in water logging, disruption of traffic, and health hazards. Owing to indiscriminate abuse, many rivers have died and many others have become sewers because municipal and industrial waste is dumped in them with little or no treatment. In the future, considerably more water will be required for domestic, irrigation, hydropower, and other uses. The need for better management of available water resources to meet the basic necessities for ever-increasing population and industrial activities and to provide hazard- free water for the society has never been more important. Importantly, many developing countries are facing similar problems to varying degrees. Does it reflect failure of policies? Or planning? Or is it sheer negligence?…..” Download for more information!!
