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14. The Future of Unconventional Water Resources

Authors : Manzoor Qadir, Vladimir Smakhtin, Sasha Koo-Oshima, Edeltraud Guenther

Published in: Unconventional Water Resources

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The water scarcity challenge continues to grow and intensify in arid and semi-arid areas. There is a need to build a diversified portfolio of water management strategies to face this challenge. With unconventional water resources as the common theme, the following strategies have the potential to help address global water scarcity: (1) promoting further research and practice on both technical and nontechnical aspects of unconventional water resources; (2) ensuring that unconventional waters provide benefits, not cost to the environment; (3) positioning unconventional waters as a reliable source of water in times of uncertainty; and (4) supporting complementary and multidimensional approaches such as addressing water scarcity and climate change together because most climate change impacts are expressed through water issues. Such a focus on unconventional water resources needs to continue and be supported by on-the-ground projects in water-critical areas to connect water experts, practitioners, young professionals, the private sector, the media, and policymakers to learn and exchange pertinent knowledge and practices.

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Title: The Future of Unconventional Water Resources
Authors: Manzoor Qadir
Vladimir Smakhtin
Sasha Koo-Oshima
Edeltraud Guenther
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Unconventional Water Resources
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-90145-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-90146-2

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90146-2_14