Managing Water Quality in Developing Countries

Enzo Fano, Marcia Brewster and Terrence Thompson

Natural Resources Forum, 1986, vol. 10, issue 1, 77-87

Abstract: Over the next decade the management of water quality will be one of the outstanding issues relating to the protection and conservation of the national stock of water. In the past, particularly in countries well‐endowed with water resources, this has been considered to be a relatively negligible problem. However, the rapid growth of population in major urban centres, industrialization and the heavy dependence on chemical products in the agricultural sector are leading to a serious deterioration of water quality. This paper reviews the nature of the pollution issue, the institutional requirements to deal with the problem in an effective and comprehensive manner and the near‐term actions which governments should take to protect their existing water resources.

Date: 1986
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