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water-effi ciency technologies, better wastewater treatment plants capable of producing high quality waters, improved piping and distribution systems, lower energy
desalination systems, improved monitoring tools, low-water-using crop types and
much more (Gleick et al. 2014 ).
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water-effi ciency technologies, better wastewater treatment plants capable of producing high quality waters, improved piping and distribution systems, lower energy
desalination systems, improved monitoring tools, low-water-using crop types and
much more (Gleick et al. 2014 ).
References
Abelson PH (1965) Water for North America. Science 147:113
Acuña V, Datry T, Marshall J et al (2014) Why should we care about temporary waterways. Science
343:1080–1081
Ashley R, Cashman A (2006) The impacts of change on the long-term future demand for water
sector infrastructure. In: OECD (ed) Infrastructure to 2030: telecom, land transport, water and
electricity. OECD Publishing, Paris, pp 241–349
Australian Government (2010) Moving water long distances: grand schemes or pipe dreams? Department
of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Canberra Act 2601
Bagla P (2014) India plans the grandest of canal networks. Science 345:128
Barr L (1975) NAWAPA: a continental water development scheme for North America? Geography
60:111–119
Batker D, De la Torre I, Costanza R, et al (2010) Gaining ground: wetlands, hurricanes, and the
economy. The value of restoring the Mississippi Delta. Earth Economics Project Report
Berkoff J (2003) China: the South – North water transfer project – is it justifi ed? Water Policy
5:1–28
Bernauer T, Siegfried T (2012) Climate change and international water confl ict in Central Asia.
J Peace Res 49:227–239
Bernhardt ES, Palmer MA, Allan JD et al (2005) Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts.
Science 308:636–637
California Department of Water Resources (2014) Bay delta conservation plan. http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Home.aspx . Accessed 11 Mar 2015
Camargo JA, Alonso Á (2006) Ecological and toxicological effects of inorganic nitrogen pollution
in aquatic ecosystems: a global assessment. Environ Int 32:831–849
Cha YJ, Shim M-P, Kim SK (2011) The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project. Paper presented at
UN-Water international conference, Zaragoza, 3–5 October 2011
Diaz RJ, Rosenberg R (2008) Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems.
Science 321:926–929
Flyvbjerg B (2007) Policy and planning for large-infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures.
Environ Plann B Plann Des 34:578–597
Flyvbjerg B (2014) What you should know about megaprojects and why: an overview. Proj Manag
J 45:6–19
Flyvbjerg B, Bruzelius N, Rothengatter W (2003) Megaprojects and risk: making decisions in an
uncertain world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Forest B, Forest P (2012) Engineering the North American waterscape: the high modernist mapping of continental water transfer projects. Political Geogr 31:167–183
Freeman L, DeToy D (2014) EIR brings Transaqua Plan, BRICS to Lake Chad Event. Exec Intell
Rev 41:28–36
Geller W, Schultze M, Kleinmann R, Wolkersdorfer C (2013) Acidic pit lakes. The legacy of coal
and metal surface mines. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
K. Tockner et al.