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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
30 August 2024
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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Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   450g
ISBN:   9780443155376
ISBN 10:   0443155372
Pages:   330
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Part A: Water for All 1. The thirst, demand and availability 2. Nexus between water, food, energy and society 3. Challenges and Opportunity 4. Towards sustainable development Part B: Water in achieving Sustainable Development 5. Safe and Sustainable Drinking water availability (SDG 6.1) 6. Role of Water in Sanitation (SDG 6.2) 7. Water Pollution (SDG 6.3) 8. Water Scarcity and Availability (SDG 6.4) 9. Transboundary water and water governance (SDG 6.5) 10. Role of Water in Ecosystem (SDG 6.6) Part C: The Broader Picture 11. Water and Poverty Alleviation (SDG 1) 12. Role of Water in Food production and Hunger Reduction (SDG 2) 13. Managing water to reduce epidemics from water-borne and water-related diseases (SDG 3) 14. Water and Education (SDG 4) 15. Access of water and Gender equality (SDG 5) 16. Affordable and Clean Energy and Water (SDG 7) 17. Role of water in economic growth (SDG 8) 18. Water infrastructure and innovation (SDG 9) 19. Water availability to address inequalities (SDG 10) 20. Water in sustaining cities (SDG 11) 21. Sustainable water consumption and production (SDG 12) 22. Climate Change Impact on Water (SDG 13) 23. Conservation of water ecosystem (SDG 14) 24. Water harvesting to conserve terrestrial ecosystem and biodiversity (SDG 15) 25. Water related conflict, disaster, governance and water availability (SDG 16) 26. Global water for Sustainable Development (SDG 17)

Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee received his PhD degree from the University of Kentucky, United States and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. He has served as the physical hydrogeologist at the Alberta Geological Survey in Canada and is currently a professor at the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Prof. Mukherjee’s main research area is hydrogeology, including water pollution, scarcity, and governance. He is known globally for his studies on geological and human-sourced groundwater pollution and has done extensive work on delineating groundwater scarcity using field observations, advanced computation, and Artificial Intelligence techniques. He has received many distinctions, including the highest award in Indian science. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has editorial roles in the Journal of Hydrology, Applied Geochemistry, Journal of Earth System Sciences, Scientific Reports, ES&T Letters, ES&T Engineering, and Water Resources Research. He is the editor of several books, including Groundwater of South Asia and Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Security, Sustainability and Solutions.

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