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This book presents both general and comprehensive observations of unsuccessful and successful experiences in water pollution trading programs within the U.S. These experiences help in understanding the major environmental, economic and regulatory barriers that prevent the application of pollution trading in water media to become successful. This work combines background information with real experience.

Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years. This book broadens existing discussions on the right to water in order to shed critical light on the pathways, pitfalls, prospects, and constraints that exist in achieving global goals, as well as advancing debates around water governance and water justice. The book shows how both discourses and struggles around the right to water have opened new perspectives, and possibilities in water governance, fostering new collective and moral claims for water justice, while effecting changes in laws and policies around the world. In light of the 2010 UN ratification on the human right to water and sanitation, shifts have taken place in policy, legal frameworks, local implementation, as well as in national dialogues. Chapters in the book illustrate the novel ways in which the right to water has been taken up in locations drawn globally, highlighting the material politics that are enabled and negotiated through this framework in order to address ongoing water insecurities. This book reflects the urgent need to take stock of debates in light of new concerns around post-neoliberal political developments, the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change, the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the mobilizations around the right to water in the global North. This book is essential reading for scholars andstudents of water governance, environmental policy, politics, geography, and law. It will be of great interest to policymakers and practitioners working in water governance, as well asthe human right to water and sanitation.

Foreword / Leo Heller -- The right to water in a global context : challenges and transformations / Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus -- Valuing water : rights, resilience, and the UN High-Level Panel on Water / Jeremy Schmidt -- Making space for practical authority : policy formalization and the right to water in Mexico / Katie Meehan -- Turning to traditions : three cultural-religious articulations of fresh waters' value(s) in contemporary governance frameworks / Christiana Zenner -- The right to bring waters into being / Jamie Linton -- The rights to water and food : exploring the synergies / Lyla Mehta and Daniel Langmeier -- Water-security capabilities and the human right to water / Wendy Jepson, Amber Wutich and Leila Harris -- Rights on the edge of the city : realizing of the right to water in informal settlements in Bolivia / Anna Walnycki -- Human right to water and bottled water consumption : governing at the intersection of water justice, rights, and ethics / Raul Pacheco-Vega -- Against the trend : structure and agency in the struggle for public water in Europe / Andreas Bieler -- Remunicipalization and the human right to water : a signifier half full? / David McDonald -- Citizen mobilization for water : the case of Thessaloniki, Greece / Jerry van den Berge, Rutgerd Boelens and Jeroen Vos -- Race, austerity and water in the US : fighting for the human right to water in Detroit and Flint, Michigan / Cristy Clark -- Class, race, space and the "right to sanitation" : the limits of neoliberal toilet technologies in Durban, South Africa / Patrick Bond.

This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile's water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change. It describes, analyzes and evaluates the performance of water policies, laws and institutions, identifies the main challenges that Chile needs to face and derives lessons learnt from Chile's reform experience. Expert contributors discuss such topics as Chile's water policy, and the reasoning which explains its policy reform. The book presents and evaluates the performance of the legal and institutional framework of water resources. It also describes efforts to meet actual demands for water by augmenting supplies with groundwater management, waste water re-use and desalination and improve the state of water ecosystems. The last chapter presents the editor's assessment and conclusions. The case of Chile is illustrative of a transition from command and control to market based management policies, where economic incentives play a significant role in water management.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Editor -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Water Quality Management -- Chapter 2: Water Monitoring and Diagnosis -- Chapter 3: Sustainable Monitoring of Algal Blooms -- Chapter 4: Groundwater Management (Aquifer Storage and Recovery, Overdraft) -- Chapter 5: Reservoir System Management -- Chapter 6: Sustainable Urban Water Management -- Chapter 7: Water Management for Shale Oil and Gas Development

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the author -- 1. Water sources and quality -- 1.1 Availability of Fresh Water -- 1.1.1 Surface water -- 1.1.2 Groundwater -- 1.1.3 Siting of wells and boreholes -- 1.1.4 Determination of yield -- 1.2 Rainwater -- 1.3 Wastewater and Recycling -- 1.4 Seawater or Saline Water -- 1.5 Water Pollution -- 1.5.1 Protection of public health -- 1.5.2 Pollution risk assessment and management -- 1.6 International Standards and Criteria -- 1.6.1 Microbiological determinants -- 1.6.2 Chemical and physical determinants -- 1.6.3 Organic pollution -- 1.6.4 Stability of water supplies -- 1.7 Water Treatment -- 1.8 References -- 2. Urban water supply -- 2.1 Water Use -- 2.1.1 Volumes required -- 2.1.2 Planning basis -- 2.1.3 Peak factors -- 2.1.4 Pressure requirements -- 2.2 Reservoir Storage Requirements -- 2.2.1 Elevated storage and pumps -- 2.2.2 Balancing volume -- 2.2.3 Other storage reservoirs -- 2.3 Pipe Fluid Mechanics -- 2.3.1 The fundamental equations of fluid flow -- 2.4 Flow Head Loss Relationships -- 2.4.1 Empirical flow formulae -- 2.4.2 Rational flow formulae -- 2.5 Water Hammer and Flow Control -- 2.5.1 Valves and other fittings -- 2.6 Pipeline Optimisation -- 2.7 Optimum Reservoir Sizes -- 2.8 Pump Characteristic Curves -- 2.9 References -- 3. Water demand management and loss control -- 3.1 Controlling Water Use -- 3.2 Economic Theory of Supply and Demand -- 3.2.1 Effect of metering -- 3.2.2 Management by use of tariffs -- 3.3 Timing -- 3.3.1 Long-term (planning and design) -- 3.3.2 Operational time-frame -- 3.3.3 Crisis management -- 3.3.4 Notes on management by use of tariffs -- 3.4 The Cost of Water -- 3.4.1 Future trends -- 3.5 Value of Water -- 3.6 Loss Control -- 3.7 Water Harvesting -- 3.8 References -- 4. Sewerage -- 4.1 Flow in Circular Drains -- 4.1.1 Manning equation.