Water Matters: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals presents a compilation of water scenarios and their relationship to multiple facets of life, as water forms a nexus with food security and energy resources, thereby forming one of the fundamental pillars of sustainable development. The thematic topics focus on studies of achieving individual sustainable development goals looking through the lens of water availability and usage, ranging from safe and sustainable drinking water availability to poverty alleviation, inequalities, climate change, and solutions for future. Each chapter presents holistic review of the topic and provides insight for further research, along with a case study of the specific theme.
This book integrates the knowledge on global-scale water reviews to local-scale case studies, ideal for hydrologists, hydrogeologists, and water managers in earth and environmental sciences, social sciences, and economics.
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Table of Contents
Section 1 Water for all 1. Water matters: the thirst, the demand, and the society 2. Opportunities and challenges 3. Data science and environmental analytics for water for better health 4. Toward sustainable development Section 2 Accessing clean water 5. Safe and sustainable drinking water availability (SDG 6.1) 6. Water: the key to sanitation (SDG 6.2) 7. Water pollution (SDG 6.3) 8. Water scarcity and availability (SDG 6.4) 9. Sustainable development and wise stewardship of transboundary waters by 2050 (SDG 6.5) 10. The role of water in ecosystems (SDG 6.6): achieving sustainable development for spring ecosystems Section 3 The broader picture: water in achieving sustainable development 11. Water in poverty alleviation (SDG 1) 12. Role of water in food security and hunger reduction (SDG 2) 13. Public health approaches for prevention and control of water-related diseases (SDG 3) 14. Relationship between water and education (SDG 4) 15. Advancing gender equity through water (SDG 5) 16. Affordable and clean energy and water (SDG 7) 17. The role of economics in meeting the sustainable development goals for water (SDG 8) 18. Role of infrastructure and innovation in attaining water security (SDG 9) 19. Water addressability to inequalities (SDG 10) 20. Water in sustaining resilient cities (SDG 11) 21. Sustainable consumption and production from water circularity perspectives (SDG 12) 22. Climate change and terrestrial water storage in large river basins (SDG 13) 23. Conservation of water ecosystem (SDG 14) 24. Life on land needs fresh water (SDG 15) 25. Advancing collaborative approach for managing water conflicts from sectoral to transboundary scale (SDG 16) 26. Water for sustainable development: examining the water-energy-food-society nexus (SDG 17)
