Water Resources

Linne Marie Lauesen ()
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Linne Marie Lauesen: Water and Waste Denmark, Vand og Affald

A chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2021, pp 225-248 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Water is one of the most important resources for life on Earth. The main use of water is for food, drinking, and watering, and it depends on a plentiful and good water quality. However, clean freshwater resources are scarce, and the climate change with extensive droughts has worsened water scarcity in many places. A clean water resource also depends on proper wastewater management, since polluted wastewater disposed into natural water bodies also affects the freshwater aquifers ultimately. Water must be seen in its entire cycle, from rain, hail, and snow from the sky dispersing into the sea, rivers, streams, and groundwater aquifers alongside the human systems of freshwater abstraction to wastewater management and outlet. To obtain sustainable water resources, responsible water management in all aspects of the water cycle is required including: the prevention of overusing freshwater from scarce water aquifers; the prevention of further climate changes to stabilize and preferably in the future reverse extreme weather situations; as well as preventing the pollution of natural water bodies with untreated wastewater and waste in general.

Keywords: Freshwater management; Waste and wastewater management; Water pollution; Water resources; Water scarcity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42465-7_16

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