Description
Book SynopsisThis book is about water - in Britain, and in the world. It is about water resources, their conservation, protection of water quality for human consumption and aquatic ecosystems. Since the publication of the first edition in 1998, major political and regulatory changes have taken place; this book provides a clear and comprehensive update of conservation and water resource management issues in the UK over the past two decades, and in an expansion of its original UK perspective now includes examples of global best practice. The UK's 2003 adoption of the EU Water Framework Directive has had enormous implications for the conservation and management of our water resources. In 2016, with the UK's decision to leave the EU, the governance scene is entering upon an unpredictable future regarding its major water resource policies.
The Protection and Conservation of Water Resources, Second edition provides a clear and comprehensive update of conservation and water resou
Table of Contents
Notes on Author ix
Preface xi
Preface to the First Edition xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction 1
1 Water, Policy and Procedure 5
2 Water Resource Availability in Britain 31
3 Institutions and Legislation for Resource Management 63
4 The Catchment Approach: Ways and Means 101
5 Sustaining Bulk Supply: Consumption and Interference 131
6 Sustaining Bulk Supply: Possible Solutions 159
7 Water Quality Background Issues 193
8 Environmental Issues of Water Quality and Quantity 231
9 Towards Solutions: Land Use and Technical Fixes 275
10 Framing Water Policies: Emerging Governance Arrangements 313
11 The USA, Australia, Europe and Lessons to be Learned: Lessons to be Learned? 357
References 385
Index 429
