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Water Quality Management in the Americas

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Editors:
  1. Asit K. Biswas

    1. Third World Centre for Water Management, Estado de México, Mexico

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  2. Benedito Braga

    1. National Water Agency, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

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  3. Cecilia Tortajada

    1. Third World Centre for Water Management, Estado de México, Mexico

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  4. Diego J. Rodriguez

    1. Environment Division Sustainable Development Dept., Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA

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  • Presents for the first time an independent and authoritative analysis of water quality management in North and South America, and discusses the practices, and future implications of the impacts of the current practices in the different countries of this region
  • Provides an authoritative source of knowledge, analysis and information which currently does not exists
  • While the book focuses on the experiences from North and South America, the information should be of direct interest to the other countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Water Quality Issues in Latin America

    • Luis E. García
    Pages 1-15

  3. Economic Instruments and Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

    • Clifford S. Russell, Christopher D. Clark
    Pages 17-45

  4. Role of Water Rights and Market Approaches to Water Quality Management

    • Sarah A. Cline, Mark W. Rosegrant, Claudia Ringler
    Pages 47-60

  5. Effectiveness of Market Approaches to Water Quality Management

    • K. William Easter, Robert C. Johansson
    Pages 61-78

  6. Integrated Water Quality Management in Brazil

    • Benedito Braga, Monica Porto, Luciano Meneses
    Pages 79-94

  7. Institutional Aspects of Water Quality Management in Brazil

    • Raymundo Garrido
    Pages 95-106

  8. Water Quality Management in Ceará, Brazil

    • José Nilson B. Campos, Francisco Assis de Souza-Filho
    Pages 107-117

  9. Water Quality Management in Mexico

    • Felipe I. Arreguín-Cortés, Enrique Mejía-Maravilla
    Pages 119-136

  10. Water Quality Management: Missing Concept for Developing Countries

    • J. Eugenio Barrios
    Pages 137-146

  11. Public Policies for Urban Wastewater Treatment in Guanajuato, Mexico

    • Ricardo Sandoval-Minero, Raúl Almeida-Jara
    Pages 147-165

  12. Water Quality Management: North American Development Bank Experience

    • Raul Rodriguez, Suzanne Gallagher O’Neal
    Pages 167-177

  13. Water Quality Management in Central America: Case Study of Costa Rica

    • Maureen Ballestero, Virginia Reyes
    Pages 179-200

  14. Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Water Quality Management in Argentina

    • Lilian del Castillo
    Pages 201-227

  15. Water Quality Management in Chile: Use of Economic Instruments

    • Guillermo Donoso, Oscar Melo
    Pages 229-251

  16. Water Pollution Charges: Colombian Experience

    • Javier Blanco, Zulma Guzmán
    Pages 253-283

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 285-296
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Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades. While the mag- tude and the extent of the global water scarcity problems of the future should not be underestimated, a serious analysis of the current trends indicate that the main water crisis in the coming years is most likely to stem primarily from water quality deterioration and lack of investment funds, rather than from physical water scar- ties per se, as is widely expected at present. In spite of the seriousness of continuing water quality deterioration in most countries of the world, water quality management continues to be a somewhat - glected issue in the international water community. Even the magnitudes and - tents of the water quality problems are not reliably known in many developed countries and in nearly all developing ones. Accordingly, in order to assess the current situation in water quality management in the Americas, and to discuss the alternatives available to improve the existing and future water quality conditions in a cost-effective and timely manner, the Third World Centre for Water M- agement in Mexico, the National Water Agency in Brazil (Agência Nacional de Águas), and the Inter-American Development Bank organised a workshop on “Water Quality Management for the Americas,” in Fortaleza, Brazil, 12-13 April 2004.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Third World Centre for Water Management, Estado de México, Mexico

    Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada

  • National Water Agency, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

    Benedito Braga

  • Environment Division Sustainable Development Dept., Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA

    Diego J. Rodriguez

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