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Water management in megacities

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The rapid growth of megacities in the southern hemisphere, their roles in development, implications in terms of resource pressure, environmental consequences and management options are synthesized. A troubling trend is that the most rapid growth of urban centers takes place in the economically weakest countries and in regions in which water resource endowments are limited and management capacity is comparatively poor.

United States, Asia, Africa, Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development, Developing Countries, Urban Planning Assistance, City planning, Urban planning

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Spatial characterization of the Baltic Sea drainage basin and its unmonitored catchments

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A hydrologic base map of the entire Baltic Sea Drainage Basin (BSDB) that includes 634 subdrainage basins as well as various spatial-aggregation possibilities of relevance for water management is presented. Particular attention is paid to drainage basins that are unmonitored and it was observed that their characteristics vary and differ largely from those in adjacent monitored drainage basins in the BSDB.

Baltic Sea, Basins (Geology)

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The headwater loss of the Western Plateau exacerbates China's long thirst

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China's water resources are minimal and the loss of glaciers and wetlands that feed the country's major rivers is set to make the situation more difficult in the future. The problem of water shortage requires urgent solution if China is to safeguard its booming economy and contribute to world development.

China, Wetlands, Glaciers

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