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Water Use and Management

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Water Use and Management. Outline:. Water Availability and Use Freshwater Shortages Water Management and Conservation Privatization of water Water wars. WATER RESOURCES. Water, liquid and solid, covers more than 70% of world’s surface. More than 370 billion billion gallons.

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Water Use and Management Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Outline: • Water Availability and Use • Freshwater Shortages • Water Management and Conservation • Privatization of water • Water wars Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

WATER RESOURCES • Water, liquid and solid, covers more than 70% of world’s surface. • More than 370 billion billion gallons. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Hydrologic Cycle Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Sources of water Surface fresh water: 3% of liquid water, which is 13% of fresh water, which is 2.4% of water Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Groundwater • Second largest reservoir of fresh water. • Infiltration - Process of water percolating through the soil and into fractures and permeable rocks. • Zone of Saturation - Lower soil layers where all spaces are filled with water. • Water Table - Top of Zone of Sat. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Groundwater Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Groundwater • Aquifers - Porous layers of sand, gravel, or rock lying below the water table. • Artesian - Pressurized aquifer intersects the surface. (Water flows without pumping) • Recharge Zone - Area where water infiltrates into an aquifer. • Recharge rate is often very slow. • Presently, groundwater is being removed faster than it can be replenished in many areas. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Groundwater Aquifer Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Water diversions from rivers Yellow River (Huang He) In northern China Colorado River Delta in U.S./Mexico Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Diversion of rivers to the Aral Sea • Once the 4th largest inland body of water in the world A series of dams was built to irrigate cotton. • Aral Sea reduced to about 25% of its 1960 volume, quadrupled the salinity of the lake and wiped out the fishery. Pollutants became airborne as dust, causing significant local health problems. • The environmental damage caused has been estimated at $1.25 -$2.5 billion a year. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

U.S. Water Policy • Through most of US history, water policies have generally worked against conservation. • In well-watered eastern states, water policy was based on riparian use rights. • In drier western regions where water is often a limiting resource, water law is based primarily on prior appropriation rights. • Fosters “Use it or Lose it” policies. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Ogallala Aquifer High- capacity well withdrawals Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Dried-up reservoir Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Western U.S. water conflicts Klamath Basin, Oregon vs. Farmers. Ranchers. “Wise Users” Commercial fishers, Sport fishers, Tribes, Environmentalists Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Bulk water transfers River system diversions(Canada-to-U.S.)Water pipelines(Canada/Great Lakes-to-Southwest)Supertankers(North America-to-Asia)Canadian government banned bulk transfers in 1999. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

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Groundwater replenishing Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

WATER AVAILABILITY AND USE • Renewable Water Supplies • Made up of surface runoff and infiltration into accessible freshwater aquifers. • Readily accessible, renewable supplies are 400,000 gal/person/year. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Drought Cycles • Every continent has regions of scarce rainfall due to topographic effects or wind currents. • Water shortages have most severe effect in semiarid zones where moisture availability is the critical factor in plant and animal distributions. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Types of Water Use • Withdrawal - Total amount of water taken from a source. • Consumption - Fraction of withdrawn water not returned to its source. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Types of Water Use • Worldwide, humans withdraw about 10% of total annual renewable supply. • Many societies have always treated water as an inexhaustible resource. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Quantities of Water Used • Human water use has been increasing about twice as fast as population growth over the past century. • Average amount of withdrawn worldwide is about 170,544 gal/person/year. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Global Water Use Growth Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Precipitation Patterns Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Water use Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

FRESHWATER SHORTAGES • Estimated 1.5 billion people lack access to an adequate supply of drinking water. • Nearly 3 billion lack acceptable sanitation. • A country where consumption exceeds more than 20% of available, renewable supply is considered vulnerable to water stress. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

A Precious Resource • 45 countries have serious water stress, and cannot meet the minimum essential water requirements of their citizens. • More than two-thirds of world’s households have to retrieve water from outside the home. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Depleting Groundwater • Groundwater is the source of nearly 40% of fresh water in the US. • On a local level, withdrawing water faster than it can be replenished leads to a cone of depression in the water table, • On a broader scale, heavy pumping can deplete an aquifer. • Mining non-renewable resource. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Depleting Groundwater Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Depleting Groundwater • Withdrawing large amounts of groundwater in a small area causes porous formations to collapse, resulting in subsidence. • Sinkholes form when an underground channel or cavern collapses. • Saltwater intrusion can occur along coastlines Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Saltwater Intrusion Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Domestic Conservation • Estimates suggest many societies could save as much as half of current domestic water usage without great sacrifice or serious change in lifestyle. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Typical US Household Water Use Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

WATER WARS 12% of population uses 85% of water Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Price Mechanisms • Charging a higher proportion of real costs to users of public water projects has helped encourage conservation. • Yet discriminates against poor. Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Global water Industry Over $140 Billion a year The World Water and Wastewater Utilities Market is estimated at $142 billion US in 2000… (2000, $US) Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Water multinationals Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Public/private water in EU countries Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Public and private prices in France Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

“Water War” in Bolivia Cochabamba residents protesting Bechtel privatization of municipal water system, 1999 Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Private and public: subsidies to and from water Private Public Subsidies from taxation Loss leaders Water services Financing other MNC operations Financing other public services Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Alternative: Porto Alegre, Brazil • Autonomous department • Efficiency and public accountability • ‘Participatory budgeting’ • Decentralised democratic prioritising Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Alternative: Debrecen, Hungary • Preferred public to private • Cheaper • Financial comparison Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Safety of municipal water supplies Australia, 1998 (privatized system) Wisconsin, 1993 Ontario, 2000 (gov’t had dropped e-coli testing) Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Bottled water costs more than oil Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Bottled water quality in question Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Bottled water growth Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

Water Privatization Woodstock Riot 1999 Fewer bubblers in public buildings? Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7th Ed.

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US hedge fund Elliott Management has been buying the bonds of troubled British utility company Thames Water, in a bet that markets have grown too pessimistic over the size of losses that investors may have to take on the debt.

Elliott , which manages about $65bn in assets and is known for its aggressive approach to corporate and sovereign debt restructuring, had built a position in the heavily-indebted water company’s bonds at a discount to face value in recent weeks, according to three people with knowledge of the trade.

Thames Water — which supplies 16mn people in London and the surrounding area, or about a quarter of the population of England and Wales — has suffered a sharp drop in its bond prices after its parent company defaulted on its debt earlier this month.

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One person with knowledge of the position said these levels were lower than Elliott’s worse-case expectations for these bonds, and the hedge fund firm believes the debt could potentially make it out of Thames Water’s present crisis unscathed. Two of the people said that Elliott’s position was relatively small and it was still evaluating whether to build it to a more material holding.

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Government contingency plans for a potential nationalisation of Thames Water, which has become a focus for public anger over sewage pollution and mistrust of England’s privatised water system, emerged last week.

They mooted that the £15bn of top-ranking bonds could face losses of 5-10 per cent in the event that the utility has to come back under public control. The £1.3bn of so-called class B debt, which is still inside the ringfence but has a lower-ranking claim on the company’s cash flows, could be hit with even deeper 35-40 per cent impairments.

While Elliott has a long record of distressed debt investing, it is best known in the UK for its activist equity bets, including pushing for change at pharmaceuticals group GSK and more recently at Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust.

Elliott is just one of a number of distressed debt investors that have rushed to buy Thames Water’s bonds in the belief that nervous fund managers are selling them for less than they are worth. The hedge fund has stayed clear of bonds at Thames Water’s holding company Kemble, however, which sit outside the regulatory ringfence and are trading at less than 15 pence.

While Elliott is known for its hardball tactics with creditors — for instance seizing an Argentine naval vessel during a protracted tussle with the Latin American nation — British water company legislation restricts the ability of bondholders to seize assets if Thames Water is unable to service its debts.

Instead, in the event of an insolvency, debt in the securitisation is secured on claims from the proceeds of a sale to a suitable owner. Present shareholders, which include the sovereign wealth funds of China and Abu Dhabi, last month declared Thames Water “uninvestable” and backtracked on plans to inject a further £500mn into the business.

These owners, which also include pension funds Omers of Canada and Britain’s USS universities scheme, are in a stand-off with regulator Ofwat over the amount of shareholder equity needed to support the water company, which requires billions of pounds to overhaul its ageing infrastructure, and the size of increases in customer bills that can be imposed.

Thames Water on Monday updated its business plan to increase the amount it plans to spend on its network to combat environmental issues such as sewage spills by £1.1bn to £19.8bn.

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Surface water management powerpoint presentation slides

Introducing Surface Water Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Take the advantage of high-quality water management plan PPT infographics to give an overview of market size, growth rate, and capital expenditure of the water industry, etc. Demonstrate the process of planning, developing, and managing the optimum use of water with the help of this PPT slide deck. The slideshow effectively depicts the division of the wastewater treatment market. Highlight the key trends that will influence the water industry in the future such as, failing infrastructure, greater conservation, increasing regulation and efficiency. Modify our water resources PPT presentation to portray the natural and human processes that affect water quality. Our groundwater management PPT templates can aptly present the organization chart for the water supply authority. The slideshow also explains various topics like the wastewater treatment process, reuse by sector, and treated wastewater quality parameters. Highlight the water management KPI metrics by downloading this sustainable water management PowerPoint slide deck.

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Slide 1 : This slide introduces Surface Water Management. State your Company name and begin. Slide 2 : This slide displays Content of the presentation. Slide 3 : This slide showcases Water market overview. Slide 4 : This slide provides an overview on water market size, Growth rate & capital expenditure. You can edit the data according to your requirements. Slide 5 : This slide shows division of wastewater treatment market by industry type. You can edit the data according to your requirements. Slide 6 : This slide shows division of wastewater treatment market by geography. You can edit the data according to your requirements. Slide 7 : This slide depicts Water Industry Key Statistics in U.S. Slide 8 : This slide provides forecast about the water industry based on the current patterns globally. Slide 9 : This slide shows key trends that will influence water industry in future. Slide 10 : The slide includes leading factors that will affect performance of water technology market. Slide 11 : This slide provides Brief overview on optimization of deterioration in water quality Slide 12 : This slide shows Sources of Water Pollution. Slide 13 : This slide showcases Natural Processes Effecting Water Quality. Slide 14 : This slide shows Human Processes Effecting Water Quality. Slide 15 : This slide presents Brief Overview on Optimization of Deterioration in Water Quality. Slide 16 : In this slide we have provided some of the common chemical and biological pollutants that deteriorate water quality. Slide 17 : This slide provides information regarding Designing a Monitoring Programme Slide 18 : This slide depicts Global Water Quality Monitoring Equipment by Application- Market Share & Growth Rate Slide 19 : This slide showcases Water Quality Monitoring Types. Slide 20 : This slide depicts Preliminary Surveys for Determining Water Quality Slide 21 : This slide includes environmental features that describe the suitable location for monitoring programme. Slide 22 : This slide showcases Types of Monitoring Sites and Programme Objectives. Slide 23 : This slide depicts Considerations while selecting Sampling Site. Slide 24 : In this slide you can use your own map and sampling sites according to your requirement. Slide 25 : This slide showcases Variables Used in Water Quality Monitoring Programme Slide 26 : This slide shows the number of times samples need to be analysed for different types of water bodies. You can edit it according to your requirement. Slide 27 : This slide showcases Waste Water Treatment & Reuse Slide 28 : This slide presents Waste Water Treatment Process-Simplified. Slide 29 : This slide depicts Waste Water Treatment Process-Detailed Slide 30 : The framework shows common procedures that need to be followed while treating wastewater and disposing it for reuse. Slide 31 : The pie chart in the slide shows major sectors where wastewater is reused after treatment. You can edit it according to your requirements. Slide 32 : This slide shows Types of Wastewater Reuse Slide 33 : This slide displays Treated Wastewater Quality Parameters. Slide 34 : This slide showcases Technical Details of Wastewater Treatment. Slide 35 : This slide displays Possible Usage of Treated Wastewater Slide 36 : This slide shows comparison of standard and measured data is done to check the quality of water. Slide 37 : This slide presents Problems Associated with Wastewater Reuse Slide 38 : This slide showcases Wastewater Reuse Constraints Slide 39 : This slide showcases Major water quality monitoring systems. Slide 40 : This slide shows how different monitoring systems are related to water quality monitoring system. Slide 41 : This slide shows a series of steps to be followed in water monitoring projects. Slide 42 : This slide shows how many times quality monitoring needs to be done for different water resources. You can edit it according to your requirement. Slide 43 : This slide displays Summary of cost factors Slide 44 : This slide includes cost allocation for various monitoring activities. You can edit the table as per your requirement. Slide 45 : This slide includes cost allocation for various monitoring activities. You can edit the table as per your requirement. Slide 46 : This slide includes cost allocation for various monitoring activities. You can edit the table as per your requirement. Slide 47 : This slide includes cost allocation for various monitoring activities. You can edit the table as per your requirement. Slide 48 : This slide shows KPI Metrics & Dashboards. Slide 49 : This slide showcases Water Management KPI Dashboard Showing Impurity Levels. Slide 50 : This slide presents Water Management KPI Dashboard Showing Water Quality Test Results Slide 51 : This slide depicts Water Management KPI Metrics Showing Water Quality and Pressure Slide 52 : This slide showcases Water Management KPI Metrics Showing Domestic Water Consumption Slide 53 : This is Icons Slide for Surface Water Management Slide 54 : This slide is titled as Additional Slides for moving forward. Slide 55 : This slide displays Investment Heatmap for Water Technology Companies Slide 56 : This slide shows Organizational Chart for Water Supply Authority. Slide 57 : This slide showcases Characteristics of Surface Waters. Slide 58 : This slide present Characteristics of Ground Waters. Slide 59 : This slide shows common water uses. You can edit this slide according to your requirement. Slide 60 : This slide includes cost allocation for various monitoring activities. You can edit the table as per your requirement. Slide 61 : This slide presents Need for Information for Management Slide 62 : This slide showcases the Purpose of Water Quality Monitoring Slide 63 : This slide depicts Characteristics of Media used in Water Quality Monitoring Programme Slide 64 : This slide shows Objectives of Water Quality Assessment Operations Slide 65 : This slide represents Characteristics of Water Quality Assessment Operations Slide 66 : This slide shows Analytical Cost for Water Quality Parameters for Surface Water Management Slide 67 : This slide shows Area Chart for comparison of products. Slide 68 : This slide displays Column Chart for comparison of products. Slide 69 : This slide is titled as Post It Notes. Slide 70 : This is Idea Generation slide to highlight important facts and message. Slide 71 : This slide is used to display the Goals of the Company. Slide 72 : This slide shows Roadmap process. Slide 73 : This slide showcases Goals. Slide 74 : This is 30 60 90 Days Plan slide. Slide 75 : This is Thank you slide.

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