Water Scarcity Management
Enabling Technologies
1. Edition May 2025
304 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Authoritative, forward-thinking resource presenting strategies and technologies to mitigate water scarcity and improve water quality
Founded on the idea that conventional procedures are unsuccessful in providing a solution to water security as a whole, Water Scarcity Management delivers integrated, cross-cutting approaches to solve some of the biggest problems that the world faces in terms of freshwater through a nature-based approach.
Written by a team of authors and leaders in the field of environmental science and technology, this book explores topics including:
* Water availability, management, governance, and quality and policy development in the Anthropocene
* New global trends of water management and wastewater reuse, as well as novel integrated strategies and technologies for the mitigation of biotic and abiotic emerging contaminants
* Water stress due to decades of poor management, over-extraction of groundwater, and contamination of freshwater supplies
* Rising demand of freshwater due to rapid population growth, urbanization, and increasing needs across sectors including agriculture, industry, and energy
Water Scarcity Management is a timely, essential, forward-thinking resource on the subject for environmental engineers, microbiologists, environmental scientists, policy developers and modelers seeking to integrate findings on water scarcity, availability, management, reuse, conservation, and treatment into policy development.
List of Contributors xvii
Foreword xxi
Preface xxiii
1 Emerging Contaminants and Water Conservation: Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions for Sustainable Water Management 1
Sachin Tripathi, Durga P. Panday, and Manish Kumar
2 Water Security in Asia 19
Kanika Dogra, Aseem Saxena, Kanchan D. Bahukhandi, and Manish Kumar
3 Water Security in Africa 39
Khem Chand, Ruchi Mehrotra, Urvashi Arya, Durgesh Bahuguna, and Rajesh Tiwari
4 Water Security in South America 53
Navjot Hothi and Saumyaranjan Sahoo
5 Water Security in Australia 71
Madhu Sharma and Apoorva
6 Water Security in North America and Europe 99
Ganesh Datt Bhatt and Deepali Rana
7 Indigenous Technology and Modern Practices in Asia 115
Aanchal Kumari, Kanchan D. Bahukhandi, and Manish Kumar
8 Indigenous and Modern Practices for Water Conservation and Management in Africa 133
Pushpa Sharma, Uttamasha B. Borah, and Saumya Patel
9 Water Security in South America 151
Sushila Arya, Ganesh Datt Bhatt, Minakshi Pandey, and Divya Chaudhary
10 Indigenous Technology and Modern Practices in Australia 169
Navjot Hothi and Saumyaranjan Sahoo
11 Indigenous Technology and Modern Practices in North America and Europe 183
Ruchi Mehrotra, Sonali Aggarwal, Rajesh Tiwari, and Kishor Joshi
12 Water-Related Traditional and Indigenous Practices: A Global Review and Case Study from Tank-Cascade Systems in Sri Lanka 195
S.S.K. Chandrasekara, M.P. Perera, and M. Vithanage
13 Water-Related Traditional and Indigenous Practices 207
Nirlipta P. Nayak
14 Modern Water Treatment and Technological Solutions 225
Aseem Saxena, Durga P. Panday, and Manish Kumar
15 Current Challenges and Solutions to Achieving Sustainable Solutions to Water Security 235
Gagan Matta, Gaurav Pant, Nitin Kamboj, Sunil Kumar, Avinash Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Anjali Nayak, Aditi Bisht, Neeraj Pandey, Amrit Kumar, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Himanshu Saini
16 Enabling Solutions to Water Security 255
Ganesh Datt Bhatt and Deepali Rana
Index 267
Dr. Manish Kumar is a distinguished professor in Water Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey, with expertise in sustainability, contaminant remediation, and environmental engineering. He has contributed significantly to wastewater surveillance and water supply strategies in the context of climate change. Prof. Kumar's research, recognized globally, spans over 200 international journal articles and numerous projects. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has been listed among the top 2% of researchers worldwide by Stanford University (since inception).
Dr. Durga P. Panday is an associate professor at UPES, specializing in Water Resources Engineering and Management. His research focuses on water quality and quantity, hydroclimatic extremes, and conflict resolution in water sharing using game theory. He has extensive teaching experience in water resources and structural engineering and actively contributes to scholarly activities and training programs.
Dr. (Eng). Tushara G.G. Chaminda is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.
